STEP NINE: See one, Do one, Teach one
By this point you’ll have come a long way in the campaign. All of the previous steps take lots of preparation, effort and thoughtfulness. You’ll have learnt absolutely loads by this point and you’ll be familiar with almost all of the arguments and objectives of Healthy Planet. You’ll have seen Healthy Planet in action, you’ll have done it for a while – your next step is to teach it.
As example of what sort of teaching you could be doing, you could be running a workshop on climate change and health, you could be giving a lecture for a Student Selected Module on Global Health, you could be running a training session on the Healthy Planet campaign for a group of students, or you could be teaching in a school or sixth form.
By this point you will have the ability to run one of these sessions – and you should. Teaching is one of the best ways to consolidate your knowledge and inspire others to start the whole process themselves. If you ever get an opportunity to run a session – given you’ve done a few activities yourself – then go for it.
Preparation is the key to a successful session. Set out your aims and objectives and find the best way – the most interesting, the most informative, the most convincing, the most whatever way, it’s your choice – to achieve your goals. For example, if you’re presenting to a group of final year medical students in a Student Selected Module on Global Health, you will probably want your presentation to have more information on the health issues than if you were giving one to a group of Medsin campaigners who would want a more balanced view including policy responses and how campaigners can achieve solutions.
The key points are to prepare your session well and according to your audience. Preparing your content is more a time-sink than any kind of cognitive puzzle – it’s more a case of researching and setting out your presentation in a structured manner than anything else.
As example of what sort of teaching you could be doing, you could be running a workshop on climate change and health, you could be giving a lecture for a Student Selected Module on Global Health, you could be running a training session on the Healthy Planet campaign for a group of students, or you could be teaching in a school or sixth form.
By this point you will have the ability to run one of these sessions – and you should. Teaching is one of the best ways to consolidate your knowledge and inspire others to start the whole process themselves. If you ever get an opportunity to run a session – given you’ve done a few activities yourself – then go for it.
Preparation is the key to a successful session. Set out your aims and objectives and find the best way – the most interesting, the most informative, the most convincing, the most whatever way, it’s your choice – to achieve your goals. For example, if you’re presenting to a group of final year medical students in a Student Selected Module on Global Health, you will probably want your presentation to have more information on the health issues than if you were giving one to a group of Medsin campaigners who would want a more balanced view including policy responses and how campaigners can achieve solutions.
The key points are to prepare your session well and according to your audience. Preparing your content is more a time-sink than any kind of cognitive puzzle – it’s more a case of researching and setting out your presentation in a structured manner than anything else.
