4 Participant Activities

The success of the workshop depends on commitment and engagement from the facilitators and from each participant for the entire duration of the workshop. As a participant, you will:

Teach

You will prepare and conduct two lessons, each containing a maximum of 20 minutes of online asynchronous content and 10 minutes of in-person content. While planning and offering these lessons, you are strongly encouraged to experiment with a range of teaching strategies and techniques, and to adopt/adapt strategies modeled by other workshop participants or the facilitators. This is an opportunity to experiment and receive feedback on the impact of the strategies you chose.

Learn

During each lesson, while one member of the group is instructing, the others are learning. This is not a role play situation. You bring a unique perspective to the workshop, including previous knowledge, skills, and experiences, as well as your own learning preferences. As a learner during a lesson, you are asked to engage authentically.

Provide Feedback

Following each lesson, learners give the instructor feedback based on their reflections on their experiences as learners. This honest, constructive feedback focuses on the impact of instructor behaviours and choices on the learners and learning.

Reflect

Reflection is important, both in this workshop and in your development as a professional and this workshop includes opportunities, throughout, to reflect on the workshop content and your teaching practice.