Teachers learn the way they ask others to learn

A training day that talks at teachers about “active learning” while giving them no work of their own is a small hypocrisy, and participants notice. Adult professional learning needs a real artefact: a lesson, a task, a piece of feedback. The room's job is to make that artefact clearer.

This does not mean every workshop is a therapy circle, and it does not mean the facilitator has nothing to teach. It means the teaching is attached to something the participants can take back on Monday. A technique with no classroom left to enter is entertainment.

The sample recommendation is plain. If you lead teachers, ask them to bring the problem. If you attend, bring one. Leave with a sentence you will say, a task you will set, or a routine you will stop.