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
Workshop Design Task (5-10 minutes): Do a quick sanity check on the Skeleton. Does it seem plausible to teach those ideas in those amounts of time? If your content doesn’t seem to fit at all, try adjusting either the Learning Outcomes or schedule chunks. Or try reordering to see how that might affect the flow. If it’s still too crowded, you probabl
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People find it extremely difficult to continue being hostile after you’ve put them on a pedestal.
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
Instead of expecting everyone to know how to reach the final goal, you help guide them with small sub-tasks. Beyond helping support the new and inexperienced, the step-by-step structure also simplifies timekeeping and facilitation by ensuring that the whole class is doing the same thing at the same time. Plus, it gives you an easy opportunity to in
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also like to use these slides as the backdrop for focused bits of Q&A. (“Here’s what we just covered; any questions or concerns with any of this stuff?”)
Devin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
At this stage in the design process, you should be holding three main building blocks for your soon-to-be workshop: An Audience Profile (which has already done its job of informing your Learning Outcomes, and can thus be set aside for now) A set of Schedule Chunks (which you got by inserting generous coffee and lunch breaks into your allotted time)
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So you include Q&A as a flexible “schedule spring” which can stretch and shrink to soak up changes in the timing elsewhere. The inclusion of these springs is the secret to finishing exactly on time, even if you’re starting late or running behind. You’ll never be able to recover time by just talking faster; instead, you need to design some flex
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You’ll need at least one prompt slide for every exercise. (People never understand the task if you only tell them verbally.) If the exercise involves group formation, finish forming groups before you show them the slide which explains what they’re supposed to be doing.
Devin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
Once you’ve got the outline, you can use it verbatim as part of your marketing and promotional material. (If you’re marketing your own events, this also means you can start selling tickets at this point; if nobody buys any, then you know you need to fix something.)