Many voids in teaching materials still remain. As you use this information, I hope you will help us by evaluating it, suggesting possible variations or extended uses, and contributing new materials to include in the Instructor's Manual . Involving participants I have found that there is a fine balance between participant involvement and presentation of new material. Some of us may need to fight the tendency of trying to cover too much material for the time allotted. On the whole, presentation of materials without increased participant involvement often fails to stimulate.
Notable exceptions are very short presentations and extremely dynamic speakers.
Equally unsatisfactory is engaging participant interest, increasing receptivity to learning, and then failing to deliver needed, useful information. We can continue to improve our skills by observing talented presenters, reading, and thinking about our teaching. It is more useful to focus on what worked well, as well as what we can do better next time, rather than on how we performed compared to other speakers. Some of the teaching notes include a suggested number of participants, or total amount of time needed to conduct a teaching session. For the most part, these are quite flexible.