Peek inside and check out the reviews at your local Amazon store:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n If you work as an informal educator in a visitor attraction or outreach organisation your fundamental challenge is engaging audiences who don’t have<\/em> to listen to you. Without being able to win and keep the attention of your audience, all of your other objectives are impossible to achieve. <\/p>\n Hook Your Audience<\/strong> is a toolkit of performance techniques to emotionally engage child and family audiences in interactive, educational presentations. Its main purpose is to encourage you to reflect more deeply on exactly how you hook your learners using a variety of engagement techniques. Many of these hooks are borrowed from other professional performers, such as magicians, stand-ups, street performers and actors.<\/p>\n Find out if this is the right book for you by reading the endorsements<\/a> educators have given it.<\/p>\n A string of <\/strong>crystallised nuggets of gold advice<\/strong> in a field for which I thought it would be impossible to write an instruction manual.<\/strong><\/p>\n This comprehensive guide groups these techniques into seven tools. The book is written in short chunks so that it can be read tool-by-tool or scanned and dipped into according to your interests. The toolkit:<\/p>\n Paperback – 10″ x 7″; 339 pages. Approximately 91,000 words.<\/p>\n Click below to reveal the Table of Contents:<\/p>\n This is the<\/em> book for training educational presenters, anyone who has to stand in front of an audience and keep them engaged. <\/strong><\/p>\n Super practical, tried and tested techniques for any topic. <\/strong>This is a book I could have bought several times over for training museum educators over the years.<\/strong><\/p>\n Of course, anyone is welcome to read this book, but it is primarily aimed at educational presenters who are working in visitor attractions or outreach organisations as a career<\/strong>. This includes a wide range of informal education sectors e.g. museums, science centres, planetariums, zoos, aquariums, historical and natural heritage centres, commercial attractions, outreach organisations, theatre-in-education practitioners and children’s entertainers who perform educational shows. <\/p>\n It should also be of interest to public engagement and outreach trainers working in universities, businesses and charities<\/strong>. They are responsible for training staff who engage the public through interactive presentations as part of their role.<\/p>\n Although my direct experience is in science communication, the techniques in the toolkit should be relevant to those who give interactive presentations to schools, community groups and families in most subjects. My subject bias, however, will be most apparent in the examples I’ve used to illustrate the hooks.<\/p>\n If you work in any of these sectors, please consider reviewing the book<\/a><\/strong> for your networks.<\/p>\n Paul McCrory runs HOOK training ltd<\/em>, a company devoted to helping educators engage their learners. His approach combines interactive performance techniques and psychology. He has spent over 20 years working as an informal science educator and trainer in the UK, Ireland and internationally. The most interesting thing about Paul is that he has a PhD in being interesting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I’ve listed lots of easy-to-consume resources below to give you a taste of the book. Tuck in.<\/p>\n This book is delightfully genius, and more important than that, it’s USEFUL! It’s so rare to find such a positive book, about genuinely caring for your audiences and a presenter’s impact.<\/strong><\/p>\n Buy the paperback<\/strong> from your local Amazon store: e.g.<\/span><\/p>\n Buy the PDF ebook<\/strong> directly<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Get a quotation for a bulk discount of books<\/strong> for staff development<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The<\/em> most comprehensive guide to on-stage engagement techniques for school age audiences (primary and secondary).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Recommended <\/strong><\/strong>books<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a> <\/p>\n You know those movies where you take a pill and then know \u2018everything\u2019? This is the book version of that pill. It is pure wisdom in paper form – jampacked with practical nuggets to improve your science communication skills in fast forwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n If professional standards are to be raised, audiences and learners captivated, and the full objectives of informal science presentations are to be achieved, then this is the book to be read and applied. Order a set of copies now!<\/strong><\/p>\n If the ideas in Hook Your Audience<\/strong> matter to you, please help to support them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Let your colleagues know about the book and resources using shareable images<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong> #hookyouraudience<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Provide a testimonial <\/a>explaining how the book has helped you reflect on the ways you engage your learners.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Write a review<\/strong><\/a> of the book on amazon or for any online or print publication for informal educators.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n They say your first book will be the worst one you ever write. 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<\/span><\/p>\nAbout the book<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The big idea<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Marilena Pace, <\/strong><\/span>STEM content producer<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n
Format<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Contents<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Rachel Ayrton, <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Learning & Interpretation Manager, King Richard III Visitor Centre<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Intended audiences<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Author<\/strong><\/h3>\n
TL;DR<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Dr Sai Pathmanathan, <\/strong><\/span>author and science education consultant<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Ordering<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Tom Pringle (aka Dr Bunhead)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Resources<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
Fran Scott, Engineering Presenter and Science Communication Consultant<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Colin Johnson, Hon Fellow, Ecsite – the European Network of Science Centres and Museums in SPOKES magazine <\/strong><\/span>(<\/strong><\/span>Full review<\/strong><\/span><\/a>)<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Support these ideas<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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endorse<\/h6>\n
review<\/h6>\n
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