The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
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The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
force you outside of your teaching comfort zone. Each of us has a “comfort
Devin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
Lectures (for delivering “book knowledge” and extracting takeaways from exercises) Small group and pair discussions (for wrestling with ambiguous options and personal implications) “Try it now” practice (for building hands-on skills) Scenario challenges (for building wisdom, evaluation, judgement, and decision-making) Question & answer (for cat
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“Attention is the first step in the learning process. We cannot understand, learn or remember that which we do not first attend to.” —CDL, Center for Development & Learning[3]
Devin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
When it comes to intros, short is good.
Devin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
For each K(nowledge), try to think up a potential topic for a small group discussion. What are the personal implications, applications, or questions around this piece of knowledge? Is there a meaty and interesting discussion to be had around not the knowledge itself, but the implications of that knowledge to the people in the room?
Devin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
your students actually experience is the workshop’s underlying design, and that’s where you must work to influence their energy and attention.
Devin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
The Teaching Format should “match” whatever you’re currently teaching The Teaching Format should switch at least every 20 minutes
Devin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
Learning Outcome slides are helpful for you as a facilitator because they force you to explicitly state your message. And it’s helpful for your attendees to see what they’re supposed to be learning, laid bare and without all the fun and fluff of your speaking style. If they take notes of what they see on your slides (which is common), then they’ll
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Another big improvement is to stop using your phone as a clock and timer. We’ve already covered this in the previous section.
Devin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
In terms of scheduling, the discussions themselves should be fairly brief (2-5 minutes), but the overall exercise will still end up consuming a decent chunk of your schedule (10-15 minutes).