👋 Hey, Charlotte here!

Each week in the Meta Learning newsletter I share an insight on how to scale your learners' transformation, your educational business and your impact.

📍 Level 1: Subject Map

Last week I wrote about how to save your learners time and help them increase their chances of success by providing them with a map for their learning journey.

I described how having no map when learning a new skill is like arriving at a new city with no map and trying to navigate it (yup, you can’t even use a map app on your phone to figure your way through the urban jungle - imagine that!).

Having no map requires painstaking effort to figure out which road to take and asking people the best route to be able to navigate the volume of roads, never ending options or dead ends. Argh.

Here’s another perspective to consider.

Check out my 3 images below.

Image 1 is the entire article 90 Tips From Toastmasters. It has a LOT of text.

(Toastmasters is a nonprofit educational organisation that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs).

This article would typically form part of pile of articles, books, tweet threads and more (podcasts, online courses..) that we save to refer to when learning how to speak with confidence.

Image 2 shows me highlighting the key concepts in an excerpt of the article that would help me be a better speaker.

It’s a good way of breaking up the text to shape it into a form I can digest, remember and use when speaking.

Image 3 is Caroline Goyder’s Confident Speaker framework.

You’ll see many of the points from the article feature in her framework too - just synthesised and laid out in a visual way so it’s easy to use and remember.

Caroline’s Confident Speaker visual framework is a map of the subject at hand.

It indicates the key elements of speaking with confidence, distilled from her tens of years of practice and experience.

The key elements direct the learner’s journey. It directs their attention to the skills they’ll need to practice, develop and master.

The framework gives learners a place to construct and organise their learning.

The subject map is an essential step to create the foundations for your learner’s success.

To make her map even more useful, Caroline can bring it to life in her presentation of it to the learner.

This ensures her framework is fully communicated, understood and used.

We’ll dig deeper into this next week.

Over to you.

What subject map can you offer your learners (to help them pick up and apply what you're teaching)?

If you do not teach in the format of a course, apply this to a format relevant to you (e.g. presentation, coaching session, blog post, tweet thread).

Here's a peek of what'll explore in the next few weeks by way of example:

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🇬🇧 Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

Last weekend Jaz and I enjoyed the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations. We had a picnic in our local village green on Saturday and watched a few key events on TV.

We're not die hard fans of the Queen but we do appreciate the incredible service she has offered in the UK and internationally in her 70 years.

It was incredible to experience at the heart of all the celebrations a the sense of love, cultural diversity and championing of public sector services, charitable organisations and the environment.

Check out the photos below for a few highlights!

Thanks for being here. I always love to hear from you. Whether it's a hello, your thoughts, what you'd love to hear more about, a suggestion, or question - just hit reply :)

Charlotte

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