Don’t miss out on the opportunity to learn with and from your PE colleagues. Our professional developments produce many deep, meaningful insights for those who attend. Here are examples of insights from our last two workshops:
Workshop: Engaging Students Asynchronously (3/8/2022)
Two steps in the Learning Process Methodology (LPM) emerged as critically important when engaging students in asynchronous learning environments. The first is leveraging Step 1 of the LPM, “why”, throughout everything that occurs in the course. From a first day activity exploring why everyone is in the course, to pre-assessing, to each learning activity, to the feedback provided, connecting to the “why” shows how learning matters. The second is later in the LPM, Step 11, “transferring/applying” where knowledge generated becomes firmly connected to prior experience and meaningful real-world contexts. Here, with each experience in the course, students need to reflect, connect, and integrate what they are doing as it relates to their personal goals. Together, these steps are significant in generating meaningful, personal learning for every learner.
Workshop: Writing Critical Thinking Questions (CTQs): A Discussion of the Pacific Crest Learning Module (2/8/2023)
Taking time out to create and answer CTQ about an area of self-growth can be a way to learn more about an area of performance, your own perspectives and history, and their intersection. Sharing these questions could be interesting fodder for discussion and exploration within a learning community and to explore others’ perspectives of intersecting performances, mindsets, or experiences. As exemplified from the discussion during this workshop, even just two critical thinking questions (one convergent that integrates ideas and one divergent that sends the learner beyond the immediate learning context) may be enough to generate deep, meaningful conversations.