sample workshop
- 1. Delivering learning sessions which engage and enthuse our learners is pivotal to achieving both contractual expectations and success during inspection. It also has significant benefit in terms of attracting new learners and retaining existing learners. Teachers and trainers apply a wide and diverse range of teaching skills and techniques but often, due to increasing work commitments and limited preparation time, a smaller range of personally favoured approaches to teaching are employed. This has many benefits but, over time, can lead to the process becoming less exciting and less engaging for the learners. This workshop is designed to allow the exploration of favoured techniques used by workshop participants, enabling others to consider them within their own topic areas. Through discussion, we can introduce new ideas and approaches to using available resources and explore, practically, ways to re-energise teaching and training within your organisation - making life more fun and exciting for learners and tutors alike. Through encouraging an holistic approach to re-energising teaching and widening participation, it is hoped to promote an environment of active learning. Aims and Objectives This highly participative and interactive workshop is designed to revitalise current practice and encourage trainers to widen their use of new and emerging technology. In doing so, it enables participants to: • Identify key opportunities for adapting current resources • Recognise the benefits of sharing resources • Be able to source and adapt new resources which will engage and motivate learners • Consider the choice of resources and their ability to challenge and stimulate learning Content The workshop includes: Sharing of current good practice with colleagues, through group work and reflection in order to use available resources in innovative ways. Identifying potential barriers to engagement and concentration in learners and identifying appropriate resources for trainers to use with groups who may present challenges in terms of motivation and concentration levels. Identification of sources of training materials; which encourage thinking ‘outside the box’ and which are accessible and easily adapted for appropriate vocational contexts. The workshop accommodates the needs of teachers and trainers who are committed to developing their delivery skills under constraints of time and will reflect their involvement in delivering an ever-evolving curriculum. Bring with you To gain maximum benefit from this workshop, participants should bring with them: • session plans, resources & course specifications which will be used to promote the sharing of good practice Re-energising Teaching & Learning