Tips for Teachers: Author Visits Part Fourteen – In Conclusion
Over the last several weeks, anyone involved in the teaching profession will have learned a little more about the benefits of hosting an author at your school.
We’ve examined how you can find an author who conducts presentations and workshops and how you can choose a writer who is the most suitable guest, both for your school and for your students. The articles in this series have looked at how you might connect with an author and investigate their website, determining if they have any resources online that you might be able to use, such as study guides and so on. We’ve also discussed the financial aspects of an author visit, plus how you might help arrange an author’s tour of several schools in your local area.
And let’s not forget the actual day of the visit, with all the things that you need to do to ensure that everything goes smoothly, such as checking the audio-visual equipment, setting the schedule for the presentations, organizing any arrangements for book sales, even establishing the procedure for the payment of the author’s fee.
Planning and successfully conducting an author visit can’t really be compared to rocket science, but it certainly requires a lot of work. And of course, these articles also explored virtual author visits by video, using Skype, when the author can visit your school from anywhere in the world.
Perhaps you can’t make arrangements for an author to actually visit your school, so why not make technology work for you instead? Details of my own school programs, including virtual visits, can be found on here my website.
