Group Workshop:
Elevate your Online Teaching
Group Workshop:
Elevate your Online Teaching
If you’ve fallen into the lecture habit, you’ll probably recognise a few of these classroom realities:
- Learners are bored, passive, or hard to motivate — videos are off, and learners aren't engaged while you deliver a one-sided lecture.
- Participation comes from the same few people while others switch off, distract themselves (or others), or disappear into multitasking.
- You’re tired of lecturing into what feels like a black hole void of learners not listening.
- You know engagement matters — and with the updated AQF Standards now requiring you to provide evidence, it’s increasingly important to be able to show how you’re engaging learners online, not just hope it’s happening.
A different kind of online classroom is possible — one where learners are up, moving, collaborating, communicating, and actually using what they’re learning. And it doesn’t require a total overhaul of your curriculum.
The Workshop: Elevate your Online Teaching
Communicative activities to make learning active, collaborative and energised.
It’s easy to fall into lecture mode — not because you’re doing it “wrong”, but because it feels like the only way to teach when you’re in an online space.
The problem is, lecture-heavy sessions often create learners who are ‘online’, but aren’t genuinely engaged.
Elevate Your Online Teaching is a practical, high-energy online workshop (with a supporting 35-page guide) built for education assistants, teachers, trainers and university lecturers who want immediately usable strategies to boost participation, attention, and learning momentum — across any online learning environment.
Come for a fun 90 minutes of hands on learning:
- demonstrating the strategies from the Engagement Toolkit, and the book ‘Everyone’s a Teacher’ whilst
- being a learner in an active online learning environment, while
- discussing how the activities can be adapted for different subject areas, class sizes, modes (online and offline) and age groups
Do you need this workshop?
If you’ve ever finished a session feeling like you did all the work lecturing while your learners did very little, this workshop will be a relief. Elevate your Online Teaching is for teachers and trainers who want a fresh “kick” — practical ideas that boost participation without requiring a full rewrite of your curriculum.
It’s also a timely support if you’re feeling the pressure of the new AQF Standards and wondering how to confidently show learner engagement in real, observable ways. Maria helps you move from “hoping they’re engaged” to using strategies that make engagement obvious.
"Develop a passion for learning...you will never cease to grow."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
What can you expect from this workshop?
You’ll learn a toolkit of communicative, collaborative activities you can use with almost any topic and any age group. Maria focuses on practical strategies that shift learners from listening passively to doing the learning—so engagement is built into the lesson, not added on at the end.
Lessons become more active and learner-centred. Instead of relying on long explanations and hoping learners stay with you, you’ll have structured ways to get learners moving, talking, practising, checking understanding with each other, and staying accountable. Many teachers find it reduces the pressure to “perform” at the front of the room because the learning is shared across the group.
Yes she can! Please contact Maria directly at maria@mariadoyle.com, or fill in the application form at the bottom of the page by clicking here.
Yes. The workshop can be adjusted to suit your context—your learners, your timetable, your learning priorities, and what your staff are currently working on. Maria can also vary the level of challenge depending on whether your team wants quick wins or a deeper dive.
Absolutely. Maria can tailor examples and activities to align with your curriculum area, learner cohort, and staff goals. If you have a particular focus (e.g., participation, collaboration, behaviour/attention, building routines, or evidence of engagement), the session can be designed around that.
Yes—ongoing support is available if your school wants help embedding the strategies after the workshop. This can include follow-up sessions, mentoring/coaching, or small-group workshops focused on a specific subject area or teaching challenge, so the ideas translate into consistent classroom practice.
Workshop Details
Participants
Up to 150 participants per workshop.
Costs
Dependent on delivery mode – join the waitlist for upcoming workshops!
Length
90 minutes or half day.
Delivery
This workshop is delivered online via Zoom or Teams.
BONUS: The Engagement Toolkit
A practical facilitator’s guide packed with strategies to make your sessions more interactive, engaging, and effective.
The Workshop In Practice
Impact at a Glance
Key Insights from the Event
Participants consistently highlighted the value of:
- Practical strategies that can be implemented immediately.
- Simple strategies for increasing learner participation and engagement online.
- Learning experiences that modelled the very techniques being taught.
- Questioning techniques that shifted learners from passive listeners to active participants.
Educators particularly appreciated:
- Experiencing interactive online learning from the learner's perspective.
- Practical tools that required minimal preparation but delivered immediate impact.
- Maria's energetic, highly engaging facilitation style and real-world examples.
Participant Feedback
Who is Maria?
Maria believes ‘Death by Powerpoint’, and ‘tick and flick’ style learning belongs firmly in the past. Her formal qualifications include a Master of International Relations (Norway), Master of Education (Australia), Cert IV TAA, Cert IV TESOL, CELTA, BA (Modern Languages) although where she really learnt about what makes a good learning experience, are her 18 overseas postings.
Maria weaves stories from these teaching and learning adventures into the training she provides which will help you create transformative learning experiences that engage, inspire and motivate learners to apply their new knowledge and skills immediately. Her areas of expertise include instructional design, curriculum & learning resource development, teacher training, project management, assessment & evaluation, and professional development.
Maria has more than 25 years international experience teaching, teacher training, developing curriculum and managing projects in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the UAE, the UK, the US, Canada, Hong Kong, Fiji, Samoa, Tuvalu and Kiribati.
Apply Today
To join the waitlist, please complete the below Application Form. To join the next public workshop, click on the button “Join the next public workshop”:
Elevate your Online Teaching Workshop: Application Form
In short, learning and education lights me up - and I would love to help you create that for your learners too.
In short, learning and education lights me up - and I would love to help you create that for your learners too.
