Instructor Development Program

Instructor Development Program

The Classroom, Rewired - Instructor Development Workshop

Duration: 4, 6 or 8 Hours

Real estate instruction has a problem. Most of us learned to teach by watching people who were taught by people who never learned to teach. Meanwhile, the learner in front of you has changed. They’re juggling a phone, a smartwatch, a side hustle, and a brain that’s been trained by TikTok to bail on anything that doesn’t earn its attention in the first few seconds. The old “stand and deliver” model wasn’t great then, and it’s malpractice now.

This 6-hour workshop fixes that. We’ll dig into how adults actually learn in 2026, not the version printed in a textbook from 1998. We’ll talk honestly about the dopamine economy your students live in, and how to design a classroom that competes with the slot machine in their pocket without becoming one yourself. We’ll cover classroom management that works whether you’re in a packed ballroom or a Zoom box full of black squares, content design that respects your students’ time and intelligence, and the proper place for AI as an augmentation of you, not a replacement.

You’ll leave with frameworks for building courses, hooks that earn attention in the first 90 seconds, techniques to handle the agent who wants to argue every slide, AI workflows that cut your prep time in half without flattening your voice, and a sharper sense of who you are at the front of the room. This isn’t a TED Talk about teaching. It’s a working session for instructors who want their students to walk out smarter, more confident, and telling other agents they have to take your class.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Apply current adult learning principles (andragogy, cognitive load theory, and retrieval practice) to real estate course design, replacing lecture-heavy formats with structures that match how today’s professionals actually absorb and retain information.
  2. Design for the distracted learner by building lessons around attention cycles, pattern interrupts, and engagement loops that compete with the dopamine-driven habits students bring into every classroom.
  3. Integrate AI as an instructional partner for course development, scenario creation, real-time student feedback, and accessibility, while maintaining the instructor’s authentic voice and professional judgment.
  4. Manage the live and virtual classroom with techniques for opening strong, redirecting disruptions, handling the chronic challenger, and keeping a Zoom audience engaged when the cameras are off and the chat has gone quiet.
  5. Build a repeatable instructor framework for content design, delivery, and post-class follow-up that produces consistent results across topics, audiences, and formats, so every class earns the next referral.

 

Pleased To Present - Instructor Development Workshop

Duration: 2, 4 and 6 Hour Programs

Today’s learners have YouTube, TikTok, and a group chat competing for their attention, and they will absolutely choose any of them over a boring instructor. This session is built for educators who want to stop surviving their virtual and hybrid classes and start owning them. We’ll move past the tech-check checklist and into the real work, designing pre-course experiences that build anticipation, structuring content around cognitive load and the learning pyramid, setting up a hybrid room that actually serves both audiences, and using the tools, gear, and AI workflows that separate a forgettable session from one learners talk about. You’ll leave with a clearer point of view on lectures versus workshops, group work versus crowdsourcing, and the small production choices, lighting, mics, camera angles, moderators, that quietly determine whether your class lands. This is a working session for instructors who already know their content and are ready to deliver it like the medium demands.

Rockstar Presenting

Duration:  2 Hours 

The Real Estate Industry is filled with the voices of instructors who can carry a tune, but very few who have the ability to build a following, be sought after and to consistently deliver what their audiences are looking for. Now with the clear necessity of virtual classrooms, the instructors have a new set of skills they need to hone in order to deliver a kickass presentation.   The Rockstar Presenting session is designed to give you the skills and tools that highly successful speakers are using to prepare an unprepared industry for the changes that are coming, the demands the learners have today, and the ability to evolve with the world.  

Mastering The Virtual Training Session

Duration:  2 hours

Teaching in a classroom and teaching online are two very different platforms.  This session explores the tools, resources, and understanding of the learner necessary to deliver an exceptional learning experience online.  

Facilitating Virtual Learning Session

Duration: 1.5 Hours

For many brokerage and Association staff members, the responsibility to manage online learning is a new duty and one that most have never been trained for.  This session focuses on the duties, skills, and resources that a program facilitator needs to create an exceptional learning experience. This program includes instruction on pre-class setup, tech checks, tech support, instructor support, understanding the learner, and maximizing the tools available to you.  Special emphasis is placed on the Zoom meeting platform, including advanced facilitator tools and trouble-shooting techniques to assist the challenged learner.

Virtual Instruction Development Program

Duration:  4 hours

Description

For many real estate instructors, the classroom is a natural fit, where the instructor has learned to master their space, engage their audience and effectively deliver their message.  The transition to an online format creates a new set of opportunities to use a new collection of tools and also build a better and more engaged audience.  This program is designed to bridge the gap many instructors face connecting their skills in a classroom setting to a virtual program online.  Learners will be given an assortment of engagement techniques, new websites, and virtual tools to use while teaching their students.  Learners will also be given recommendations and best practices for acquiring and using equipment for their virtual classroom setup.  This program focuses on Zoom as an instruction platform. 

Course Objectives

  • Learners will better understand the proper setup for delivering effective virtual training, including equipment and proper use
  • Learners will create a set of tools to effectively communicate their message in a virtual training session 
  • Learners will observe best practices for student engagement and connection in virtual training
  • Learners will increase their comfortability with utilizing Polls, Breakouts, chat, and other system tools effectively
  • Learners will be able to create an immersive experience for their learners
  • Learners will understand how to create a learning plan for virtual students for engagement before, during and after the virtual learning session