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Shorter Dialogue Education Courses
1/2 Day Introduction to Dialogue Education
In this half-day workshop, the participants will consider how to apply some key insights of a Dialogue Education approach to their teaching and learning work.
The content would include:
- Six Factors of How Adults Learn: Respect, Safety, Immediacy, Relevance, Inclusion, Engagement
- Learning Styles (Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic) and Learning Domains (Cognitive, Affective, Psychomotor)
- Designing for Praxis and Engagement
- An Overview of the 7 Steps of Design for organizing and designing learning events
- Other topics as identified by the participants during the pre-workshop Learning Needs and Resources Assessment (LNRA)
One Day "Design Makeover" Workshop
In this full-day, “Design Makeover” workshop, the facilitators would take one of your existing workshops and redesign it ahead of time according to a Dialogue Education approach. The redesigned workshop curriculum would serve as an example of how Dialogue Education might make a difference for the design and facilitation of the event, and ultimately for the learners.
The participants would study the design and walk through a sample of the learning tasks.
- Six Factors of How Adults Learn: Respect, Safety, Immediacy, Relevance, Inclusion, Engagement
- Learning Styles (Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic) and Learning Domains (Cognitive, Affective, Psychomotor)
- Designing for Praxis and Engagement
- An Overview of the 7 Steps of Design
- A 4A Learning Task model.
- Other topics as identified by the participants during the pre-workshop LNRA
2.5 Day Workshop
In this workshop, the participants will explore the key principles and practices of Dialogue Education that we explore in the full workshop, and an opportunity to facilitate one of their organization’s current learning designs using a Dialogue Education approach.
Before the workshop, the GLP facilitators would work with your staff to revise up to 4 of your organization’s learning designs using a Dialogue Education approach. The participants would then conduct a mini-Learning Needs and Resources Assessment with each other, adapt these designs for the needs of this particular group, facilitate their practice teaching sessions and receive feedback.
This approach would be particularly helpful for participants who do not typically design their own learning events, but who primarily must adapt other colleagues’ curricula. Your training team would then be able to use these four designs in it ongoing work.
Three Day Dialogue Education Workshop
A final option would be to hold the first three days of the Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach workshop, including the first full practice teaching session in which the participants would create their own workshops, teach them to the other participants, and receive feedback.
The participants would then return to their workplace and design and teach their own Dialogue Education learning designs on the job within 4 weeks. A supervisor or colleague would then provide their comments using our Feedback Process, and they would send their designs and feedback notes to the GLP facilitators.
The facilitator would then organize a conference call or a meeting with the staff to debrief on their experiences.
