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'Playing with Learning' - Unlocking the learning experience
The ‘Playing with Learning’ event is a unique opportunity to engage with innovative and exciting ways of energising learning with Higher Education students. This event, organised by The Higher Education Academy HE in FE Enhancement Programme Team, has been designed to appeal to practitioners from all disciplines who deliver HE programmes in Further Education Colleges, but will also be of interest to those University lecturers with a particular interest in adding to their existing repertoire of teaching techniques. Pictures from the Event
Market Place As the day progresses fill your shopping bag up with a range of tools and resources, all included in the conference fee, that will enhance your teaching and motivate your learners. You can collect:
The Higher Education Academy subject centre staff and HE in FE liaison staff, and TechDis will be available throughout the day. 9.30 Registration, Coffee & Pastries 10.00 Introductions 10.30 Morning Activities
This workshop highlights the role of language in effective teaching. Come along with an open mind, be willing to take part and allow some new ideas to germinate. Help your students really express themselves. Make learning less stressful. Reconsider your approach.
A workshop exploring the use of games, traditionally a tool of management trainers, as a means of exploring ideas and awareness, developing skills and introducing fun into the classroom. Come prepared to learn, shed inhibitions, get to know others intimately - and enjoy yourself.
The internet is a virtual playground for educators who can make use of free “web2.0 tools”. These web based tools enable you to create, edit and distribute multimedia resources to enrich and enhance the learning experience. This taster will showcase some of these tools and spark some creative ideas.
Activities getting learners thinking from the start. Focussing on learning through engaging ears, eyes and emotions. Making sense of where they are and where they could be. Tools and techniques that work.
Will Thomas, co-author of the ground-breaking book, Coaching Solutions, offers you a lightning insight into the powerful process of coaching. Coaching is a proven skill-set which enables you to support colleagues and students to break unproductive habits and build new behaviours and thinking. In this short session you’ll get to know the differences between coaching and mentoring and get a taste of the coaching process.
The power cards are a set of 18 cards, which provide a structured framework to enable people to work towards their goal, be creative and build their own futures. They can be used by both teacher and student in various ways to stimulate learning, create motivation and measure distance travelled.
An interactive workshop to show how both support and teaching staff within institutions can gain a greater understanding of the current accessibility and technology issues, and demonstrate how accessibility and inclusion can be built into everyday practice.
Instant group profiling: getting to know your group, breaking the ice and psycho-metric testingin one dynamic game. They'll be having so much fun they won't even know you're doing it! 12.00 Forum Theatre
12.45 – 1.45 Lunch
1.45 - 2.30 Keynote Speaker - Colin Beard ‘Unlocking the Student Learning Experience’ 2.30 Afternoon workshops (with refreshments)
Be more the guide on the side than the sage on the stage! Moving students away from the "I'm the empty vessel, fill me" challenge, towards "It's my learning and I'm know how to get better at it" learners. A planning learning tool with a philosophy that works; it's fun yet challenging, has a proven track record in raising attainment, shared by colleagues who are using it, and their DVD of student responses and leading learning ideas.
Frustrated with miscommunication in the classroom? Are you understood? All the time? Why shouldn’t you trust the feedback you are getting from your learners? This workshop highlights the role of language in effective teaching. Come along with an open mind, be willing to take part and allow some new ideas to germinate. Help your students really express themselves. Make learning less stressful. Reconsider your approach.
An interactive participatory workshop which develops ideas illustrated in the forum theatre session held at 12pm. By creating our own characters (which will be embodied by professional actors) and situations, we will examine approaches in our own practice of teaching and communication and how we might explore, develop and act to initiate and maximise an effective response from our students. We will be tackling (with the help of our actors) challenging personalities and scenarios and asking: Are you making yourself clear? What are you trying to say? Are you being heard? Are you listening?
The power cards are a set of 18 cards, which provide a structured framework to enable people to work towards their goal, be creative and build their own futures. They can be used by both teacher and student in various ways to stimulate learning, create motivation and measure distance travelled.
Ever wondered how to build more creativity into your work? In this one and a half hour workshop learn what creativity really is, re-evaluate the myths that prevent truly creative practice and learn techniques for awakening creativity in yourself and your students. Will Thomas, 2008 Education Resources Award Finalist, and co-author of The Creative Teaching and Learning Toolkit will take you through an interactive workshop packed with creative ideas and processes.
No one doubts that technology is an enabling force in learning but this workshop will show how it can impact across the landscape of learning. Peter Cox will be joined by Paul Sutton to explore ways in which young people are setting the agenda for learning.
An interactive workshop to show how both support and teaching staff within institutions can gain a greater understanding of the current accessibility and technology issues, and demonstrate how accessibility and inclusion can be built into everyday practice.
4.00 Feedback & Evaluation through art - with Gary King 4.15 Close & Departure You will receive a certificate of attendance which will be emailed to you after the event featuring the live art produced on the day to use for CPD. Cost only £145 per person including wide range of free resources. Location, Scarman House Conference Centre, Warwick For more information, and to reserve your place, please contact Tracey Daly at Solihull College
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