Be a learner-centered teacher who facilitates student success! On Course helps you re-discover the fun and excitement of learning and the influence educators can have on awakening the potential of an individual to overcome limitations and embrace the challenge of personal achievement and quality of life.
An On Course 1 workshop will kindle enthusiasm for student-centred teaching among attendees, focus their attention on the REAL factors affecting student success, and give them a toolbox of practical ideas they can implement immediately. After experiencing 2 separate On Course workshops on our campus, I can truly attest to the fact that we saw revitalization and unification as a result of the training, the inspiration, and the camaraderie. On Course is contagious! The workshop was a wonderful opportunity to connect with two colleagues from my own institution.
The thought of doing that on a larger scale would be very exciting! You will come away with many active learning strategies to try in the classroom. And know what—my answer was provided more than I imagined. It is the BEST one out there! You will never bore yourself or your students again in the classroom! The On Course Workshop will provide strategies and tools you can use to ignite your students to achieve academic and life success but more importantly it will reignite your passion for teaching and learning!
The ideas were easily implemented into not only my classroom but also into my way of thinking everywhere! Professional and Personal Development is important, however, having them both occur simultaneously is extremely empowering not only to the individual, but also for the students served and the institutions in which we work.
It reenergizes and refocuses your passion for teaching….. I think one of the most compelling reasons to attend an On Course conference is that it stimulates us as professionals, reminding us of our primary love of learning, which ignites us with possibilities and strategies to use in the classroom. Basically: it makes us better, more engaged teachers, which in turn, causes us to create better, more engaged students!
One of the greatest reasons that I can think of is that you become so absorbed in the workshop as a student that you really dive deeply into your own being and as a result have a much deeper understanding of what your students truly experience. The information and experience I received from attending an On Course Workshop changed the way I view education and work with students. Nothing beats an old dog learning new tricks! It revives the old dog as a person and as a teacher.
The OC workshop is incredible; best thing I have ever attended! Because it is the best professional training and experience you will ever have!! It will change YOUR life and the lives of your students. Attend the OnCourse workshop if you want to experience the best professional personal development and the best personal professional development for your own life skills.
Oh yes, the students will benefit, truly, as well. The On Course Workshop does more than simply talk the talk about active learning; On Course leaders model strategies, engaging all participants in an active learning experience that is worth more than a hundred PowerPoint presentations.
The number one reason would be SKIP. The On Course Workshop presents a perspective of learning and instruction that will inspire and motivate students and teachers alike. The On Course Workshop is life-changing, both personally and professionally. It will not only inspire you to be the best educator you can possibly be, but it will also equip you with numerous tools to use with students. I use the strategies I learned there with myself and my students daily, and I continue to be touched in positive ways by the friendships I developed at the On Course Workshop.
I could go on and on — how exciting for these future participants! The tools really work and work in any discipline. I now start my nursing groups off with some of the essentials exercises at the beginning and what a change it makes in their success and behaviors.
It helps to reduce their stress and gives them tools to problem solve from the beginning. For faculty it provides a way to network with others and share of ideas. On Course Workshops hosted by our campus provided opportunities for positive interaction and collaboration that never seemed likely before.
Faculty and staff were invigorated and enthused as they discovered or re-discovered tools for success to incorporate into their personal and professional lives. You go in feeling alone and come out feeling super-connected. You go into On Course with a couple teaching strategies, but you leave with a million that help student reach their optimal potential!!!!! You go in a burned-out, cynical, on the verge of quitting academia wreck and leave feeling rejuvenated, inspired, self-confident and ready to take on another batch of students!
Workshop Testimonials Our college needs to offer this workshop for all faculty, full and part-time. This workshop transformed my professional and personal life. The On Course Workshop was the most productive learning experience I have had in years. When you are happy, your productivity and innovation improve dramatically.
Aside from learning new things, business owners can also build new professional relationships, gain friendships with like-minded people and even get to know clients and vendors on a more personal level. Moreover, there is always something more to know as a small or big business owner. Whether it is admin, marketing, branding, product development, e-commerce or something else, as a business owner it is important to create your skills to improve your company.
Here are a few of the advantages elaborated;. Workshops are available to all types of businesses whether small or big. A workshop is not limited to a specific sector, so as a business owner there will be a range of people to network with. Nonetheless, one thing you will all have in common is your interest in the particular topic discussed in the workshop and participants to share their thoughts and suggestions on how to deal with specific issues.
Who knows, you might meet someone who can support your business? Workshops are a great way to increase your business and your referrals. Free access to professional consultation on key business issues. Workshops are attended by many delegates from different corners of the world and a business owner does not have to pay anything extra for getting assistance to expert advice on his or her key business topics.
A workshop can cover a range of subjects, from recruitment and flexible work, to talent management, staff growth and apprenticeship development. They have practical solutions and guidance that will take you back to your company and hopefully execute it. If that's not enough, you as a business owner will also meet professional skills advisors who can point you in the right direction for all kinds of queries. As well as hearing to speakers' ideas, statistics, case studies and valuable information, workshops are set up in such a way that you as a business owner will also benefit from exchanging ideas and knowledge with the other participants or business owners.
They may have had a similar problem in their business that they managed to solve, or maybe in a process they are a little further ahead than you can offer their advice that could benefit your organization. It is great to talk, everybody knows! So keep the flame of learning alive and join a workshop today! Workshops in Hyderabad. Workshops in Bengaluru. Workshops in Mumbai. Workshops in Pune. Workshops introduce teachers to new peers with whom they would not normally interact.
As such, they can learn new content, gather new perspectives and synthesize ideas from a colleague in region X, school Y, or country Z. The workshop structure can create energy and enthusiasm that can supply an initial thrust of momentum to a project. As a corollary to this, workshops represent opportunities for the beginnings of communities of learning and of practice among teachers who will be working together over time.
Because they replicate the one-to-many traditional format of a classroom, workshops are a familiar and recognizable form of teacher professional development requiring little explanation or justification to donors, managers, principals, government officials unlike, say, study groups or open classrooms. Workshops attempt to promote standardization, uniformity and equity of access to learning. One size may not fit all but all are fitted in this one size in a workshop granted, workshops will vary according to who leads and who attends them and the overall group dynamics.
Because they are a one-to-many model of teacher learning, they promise scale. Scale, of course, is the ultimate goal of donor-funded education projects. No other professional development format allows us to hoover up 70 grade teachers and park them for a week in a workshop in a hotel in Ouagadougou or Kigali or Guatemala City. The bad… However, workshops have numerous flaws. They are facilitator-centered and as such may model a traditional and hierarchical type of professional development.
Often, before a workshop, facilitators may know little to nothing about the teachers they are teaching; and the one-to-many nature, coupled with cultural and linguistic differences in the case of international workshops makes it challenging to get to know teachers on an individual basis, further reinforcing this hierarchy.
Workshops can, and often do, promote a highly didactic and passive form of learning. This is exacerbated by the traditional deductive approach of the workshop: the facilitator gives information theory ; teachers discuss it at their tables or do some mini-activity, and report out to the group on their views of that concept confirmation of theory.
Then the facilitator moves onto the next topic. Rinse and repeat. They are often so logistically challenging and costly to organize that they devour the professional development budget, leaving little else for other forms of professional learning that might be more effective. This workshop-centric focus on professional learning often unwittingly conveys the notion that upon the conclusion of the workshop, all official teacher learning has ceased until the next workshop.
Workshops promote in vitro versus in vivo learning. They typically occur away from schools and within the pristine and functional environs of a capital city air-conditioned hotel where everything works and where the number of learners is manageable. We would never do a big workshop in a school because of the lack of Internet connection, space, infrastructure, and supplies. My point exactly.
Nevertheless, the workshop again, unwittingly communicates the erroneous directive that Petri-dish hotel-based learning can be directly transferred to under-resourced schools. In my experience, workshops privilege certain types of learners over others. They are great for social learners. They are great for the very small percentage of teachers who are innovators and early adopters who can take an innovation like an early grade reading approach and run with it. However, they do little to nothing to help the majority of learners who need repeated exposure and practice to new concepts.
Mind the implementation gap However, the biggest weakness of workshops strikes at the core of the workshop itself. Post a comment or Share:. Focus areas: Quality teaching. Latest blogs. Aligning aid for education with national systems supports transformation and better education outcomes.
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