10 Things You Can Do to Make Your Workshop Experience Productive 1. Understand you real reasons for joining the workshop and check if they align with the workshop objectives. 2. Understand the modality of the workshop. 3. Try to get in touch with other participants. 4. Don’t go into a workshop without any preparation. 5. And go with an open mind, without judgment. 6. Try to ‘get out of your comfort zone’ 7. Provide proper and concrete feedback to the facilitator 8. Stay in touch. 9. Request the trainer for a follow-up session. 10. Share the ideas & skills with someone else – a friend or a colleague. --- Find me here: Instagram: @umesunlearn Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/
We love giving advice, suggestion, and feedback - that too unsolicited. As a teacher, I've made this mistake several times. And, as a teacher developer, I've done this during workshop sessions too. We have done this mistake, I'm sure. Experience is a great teacher and I've come up with my own "rule of thumb" regarding this complex issue of giving and receiving advice, suggestion, and feedback. Talking about this rule and sharing a few examples in this podcast.
Note: Recorded in English + Nepali mixed language This episode is for teachers who are trying to unravel the complex issue of learning and teaching. I will be recording a series of episodes summarizing and reviewing each chapters from the seminal book "How Learning Happens". Book: How Learning Happens - Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice Paul A. Kirschner and Carl Hendrick Chapter 1: A novice is not a little expert The takeaways are: a. Beginners aren’t “little” experts; they know less and think differently than experts. b. Children also aren’t small adults. They see the world very differently and therefore have to learn differently. c. A teaching approach that works well with an expert will most probably not work well with a beginner and can even be detrimental to their learning. d. Try to differentiate at an early stage. e. The epistemology of the expert is not the proper pedagogy for the learner. --- Find me here: Instagram: @umesunlearn Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/
The three learning myths I talked about in this episodes: The Learning Pyramid The Learning Styles Knowledge is out there (in the internet) Find me here: Instagram: @umesunlearn Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/ Article Source: https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2017/12/26/20-research-myths/
This time I'm talking with Abha Dhital, who loves writing, doodling, branding, and storytelling. Recording this episode was fun and reflective at the both time. Give it a listen, okay. Find Abha here: https://abhadhital.wixsite.com/abhadhital/about Find me here: Instagram: @umesunlearn Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/
This is my first episode in 2021 and I tried to have a guest in for the first time as well :) My guest is Biliz Maharjan, an MBA/IT graduate working an Investment/IT Analyst in a Merchant Banking Company. For me, his writing captured my attention and I got hooked into it. In this almost an hour long conversation, we dive into a lot of stuffs on learning, writing, teaching, habits, and we also did an impromptu section on "5 things that made you a better learner" and "One favorite book, one favorite habit, and one favorite quote". Hope you'll enjoy this conversation. Find Biliz here: https://www.bilizmaharjan.com/ Find me here: Instagram: @umesunlearn Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/
I recorded this episode after reading this "important" blog article posted on edutopia.org (Link: https://www.edutopia.org/article/10-most-significant-education-studies-2020). I have added my own perspectives and a few opinions as well on these studies. And in doing so, I have cited some references of Robert Bjork (Input less, Output more), Angela Duckworth (Grit), Daniel Wellingham (Memory is the residue of thoughts), and John Sweller (We are our long term memory). I've used both Nepali and English language, as my primary target of this podcast is Nepali teachers, educators, and learners.
In this episode, I share some of the ideas posted by teachers on how to solve the perennial problem teachers face: completing the course/syllabus. I also talk about how I used to label teachers as "lazy" and how wrong I was to do so. -- Book mentioned: Switch by Chip and Dan Heath Our facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/teachersempoweringteachers -- Find me here: Instagram: @umesunlearn Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
In this episode, I am sharing an extremely helpful tool/model for trainers, facilitators, and teachers. With this, they will be able to understand how to make any workshop situation "non-threatening" for the participants and how to create challenging yet empowering situations for the participants. Major source: David Rock - Your Brain at Work SCARF: Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness --- Links: Empowerment Academy fb/eanepal
In this episode, I want to share my experience of dealing with a "difficult" participant. Eventually every facilitator or trainer (and even teachers) will face difficult and even disruptive participants in workshop sessions. And, here's my version of the situation and my learning. --- Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com Insta: @umesunlearn Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
In this episode, I am sharing with you 10 ways you can make the most of out an online workshop. This one is from a participant's point of view and on how one can do to make the experience productive and effective. Keep unlearning, keep growing. --- Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com Insta: @umesunlearn Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
Are you a teacher? Or, are you "just" a facilitator? On this episode, I sort of rant about how many teachers get confused with their roles as teachers. --- Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com Insta: @umesunlearn Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
In this episode, I am sharing the ideas I got by reading the book Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins. UbD, the concept is also known as backward designing, is first answering three essential questions to design the course, and sharing those to the students in the first or initial days of the course. This helps students know why they are taking the course and eventually helps them stay motivated and self-regulated. --- Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com Insta: @umesunlearn Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
We know to learn we need to raise the difficulty level slightly. But what we might not know is if that difficulty is desirable or not desirable. Talking about this concept from Robert Bjork, hoping that it will be helpful for teachers, students, or any learners. --- Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com Insta: @umesunlearn Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
So what is learning in a true sense? I think I have found the answer... but I know there's more to it. However, this is a good starting place to dig in. Learning how to Learn Barbara Oakley Robert Bjork Retrieval Practice --- Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com Insta: @umesunlearn Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
So, what does it require to be a critical thinker? Let's find out. --- Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com Insta: @umesunlearn Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)