diff --git a/team-leaders.md b/team-leaders.md index 51e08221..58dfa668 100644 --- a/team-leaders.md +++ b/team-leaders.md @@ -213,11 +213,8 @@ As a team leader, you have a crucial role during workshops: ## What we want to avoid -- **Take over the learner's keyboard** (neither physically nor remotely). It is rarely a good idea to type anything - for your learners and it can be demotivating for the learner because it - implies you don't think they can do it themselves or that you don't want to - wait for them. It also wastes a valuable opportunity for them to develop muscle - memory and other skills that are essential for independent work. Instead, try +- **Take over the learner's keyboard** (neither physically nor remotely). + Instead, try to have a sticky note pad and pen / use the collaborative document and write the commands that they should type. - **Criticize certain programs**, operating systems, or GUI applications, or learners who use them. (Excel, Windows, etc.) @@ -226,7 +223,7 @@ As a team leader, you have a crucial role during workshops: someone to change their practices is much harder when they think you disdain them. - Dive into **complex or detailed technical discussion** with the one or two people - in the audience who have advanced knowledge and may not actually need to be + in the audience/team who have advanced knowledge and may not actually need to be at the workshop. - **Pretend to know more than you do**. People will actually trust you more if you are frank about the limitations of your knowledge, and will be more likely to @@ -234,8 +231,8 @@ As a team leader, you have a crucial role during workshops: - **Use "just", "easy", "simply", or other demotivating words**. These signal to the learner that the instructor thinks their problem is trivial and by extension that they therefore must be stupid for not being able to figure it out. -- **Feign surprise** at learners not knowing something. Saying things like “I can't - believe you don't know X” or “You've never heard of Y?” signals to the +- **Feign surprise** at learners not knowing something. + "You've really never heard of (sometool)?" signals to the learner that they do not have some required pre-knowledge of the material you are teaching, that they don't belong at the workshop, and it may prevent them from asking questions in the future.