Critical Practices for Process Educators: How We Talk Affects How We Work (Take 2)

October 8, 2019  (7:00-8:30pm, Eastern)     Part A: 7:00-7:45, How We Talk   |   Part B: 7:45-8:30, How We Work

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Facilitator(s)

Why?

This session introduces a framework for how we talk with our students, our colleagues, and others in ways acknowledge them as individuals and empower them toward transformational change. Further, the Academy of Process Educators is a volunteer organization, and as such can only thrive given an environment where interaction with each other is mutually beneficial. The way we talk impacts those interactions and can support us in working to achieve wildly audacious success together, yet as individuals.

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of the activity participants will...

  1. Apply the seven languages for transformational development to ourselves at work and within the Academy.
  2. Analyze how our own roles in the Academy can be enhanced when placed within the context of our own goals.
  3. Create an action plan for oneself to use incremental changes in the way we talk to help us pursue our own goals and those of the Academy.

Performance Criteria

Critical thinker - Monitor the way we talk during the session to highlight the impact of the language used and share major insights about how we talk affecting how we work within the session.

Goal oriented - Be mindful of how personal goals relate to the goals of the group and of the Academy as you participate.

Plan

  1. Read the assigned readings before the session for each part of the session (Part A and/or Part B) that you will attend.
  2. Answer the critical thinking questions on the forum for the session before the session begins.
  3. Actively contribute to the discussion exercises by playing one or more team roles used in Process Education teams.

Part A: How we Talk (7:00-7:45 Eastern)

  • Readings

  • Post answers to the Critical Thinking Questions BEFORE the session (click the red bold red text when you're ready to post your answers...it will open the correct forum on the Member site, so be ready to log on!)
    1. What are the seven old/new languages we use at work?
    2. What are examples where you have seen old language habits limit progress in your workplace?
    3. What are examples where you have seen new language habits promote progress in your workplace?
    4. Which language do you see as most important to work on changing in your own practice? Why?
    5. How do these languages at work translate to the Academy setting?

During the workshop

Part B: How we Work (7:45-8:30 Eastern)

  • Readings

  • Post answers to the Critical Thinking Questions on the session discussion board BEFORE the session (click the red bold red text when you're ready to post your answers...it will open the correct forum on the Member site, so be ready to log on!)
    1. What is your One Big Thing (OBT)? How would making progress on your OBT would make a big difference for you personally, for your organization, for the Academy, and for your life in general? Who knows about your OBT?
    2. How do of these reading materials add meaning the concepts of Home, Edge, and Groove?
    3. Compare and contrast process education and the Home, Edge and Groove of a DDO.
    4. Process Educators are in fact performance educators. Traditional educators focus on creating materials, activities and a learning environment that facilitate student learning. Performance educators focus on continually improving the quality of learner performance so that students can learn faster and better in any context. What are three practices we could adopt to serve as performance educators for each other?
    5. What are the three most important existing structures within the PE Academy that can be adapted to be serve our DDO effort?
    6. What are 1-2 new structures that might need to be in place for the Academy to best support our DDO effort?

During the workshop

After the workshop