Live from Your Class: Everything I Learned About Teaching, I Learned from Working at Saturday Night Live

TEACHERS, SPEAKERS, FACILITATORS AND EXECUTIVE COACHES, LOOK NO FURTHER!This practical and entertaining book shows business leaders and teachers how they can specifically bring more humour into employees' and students’ lives because when they’re laughing, they’re learning. In Jamie Mason Cohen’s super, easy-to-read and entertaining style he applies the stories and strategies from his time at Saturday Night Live to his decade-and-a-half award-winning teaching and speaking career. He is a TED-Huff Post International Teaching Award Recipient for innovation in online teaching and was nominated for Speaker of the Year 2020 by Meeting Planners International Greater New York.It is a book that inspires yet is grounded in actionable strategies.The author has drawn on his fascinating contacts in the world of comedy, magic, human rights and psychology to make applicable connections that can transform most remote, in-person or hybrid learning environments, but also the mindset of any teacher, speaker, facilitator or leadership coach. Jamie Mason Cohen shows that any teacher, speaker, facilitator and executive coach can add more light, fun and creativity in their classroom through strategies tested for years and backed by real data. Personal Benefits for the Teacher, Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Coach✓Go from feeling burned out to energized in conducting your virtual or in-person classes and sessions.✓Offers new, fresh creative approaches to your professional growth.✓Provides practical learner-centered approaches to give you more balance.This is What You’ll Gain✓Create a space where students, employees, clients and audience members are inspired and motivated to learn from you.✓Help students and audience members feel more connected to their peers and the class in both virtual and in-person sessions.✓Contribute to learners feeling happier and more emotionally content.✓How to apply stories from your life in a compelling and relevant way to dramatically increase student engagement.✓Instantly access a humour-based lesson plan and story-telling process for any class, session, workshop, coaching session or speech.The strategies in this book have the power to turn the most toxic workplace or classroom culture into a learning environment where creativity, a love of learning and breakthrough outcomes consistently happen. Read more