Host: Laura Weisel
About: For more than 30 years Laura Weisel has studied how the brain works to learn and what impacts learning. Working at all levels of the education system, she began to think there must be a better way to support all learners to become successful learners. A breakthrough happened when she developed tools for identifying and managing underlying learning challenges. But, that didn't seem to be enough. After coming in contact with the participatory methods that form the Art of Hosting, she suddenly saw how taking participatory practice into learning situations could create dramatic results. These new participatory methods engaged all students. Peer learning in addition to practicing social skills was an instant success in primary through university classrooms. Studies have indicated across the board learning gains for all students. At the same time, this approach creates a revolution for the role of teachers and administrators.
This track will review the methodologies and how they can be used in any classroom, specific strategies that have been added to the methodologies to engage all students and work with learning content or curriculum, how and why the brain responds to participatory learning, specific social capital skills (aka social skills, social emotional learning) that are practiced using these methodologies, techniques for creating hosting learning plans, and how to have students learn through apprenticing in hosting learning. The participatory learning practices used in the classroom are amazing when adapted for education administration and supervisory levels for creating a whole new culture focus on learning not teaching. Practitioners attending this track will receive a Participatory Learning Packet with how-to cards for each methodology and a guidebook for using Participatory Learning in education.
About: For more than 30 years Laura Weisel has studied how the brain works to learn and what impacts learning. Working at all levels of the education system, she began to think there must be a better way to support all learners to become successful learners. A breakthrough happened when she developed tools for identifying and managing underlying learning challenges. But, that didn't seem to be enough. After coming in contact with the participatory methods that form the Art of Hosting, she suddenly saw how taking participatory practice into learning situations could create dramatic results. These new participatory methods engaged all students. Peer learning in addition to practicing social skills was an instant success in primary through university classrooms. Studies have indicated across the board learning gains for all students. At the same time, this approach creates a revolution for the role of teachers and administrators.
This track will review the methodologies and how they can be used in any classroom, specific strategies that have been added to the methodologies to engage all students and work with learning content or curriculum, how and why the brain responds to participatory learning, specific social capital skills (aka social skills, social emotional learning) that are practiced using these methodologies, techniques for creating hosting learning plans, and how to have students learn through apprenticing in hosting learning. The participatory learning practices used in the classroom are amazing when adapted for education administration and supervisory levels for creating a whole new culture focus on learning not teaching. Practitioners attending this track will receive a Participatory Learning Packet with how-to cards for each methodology and a guidebook for using Participatory Learning in education.
Gallery
Collective Harvest by Participants
|
What Happened:
So What
“I function like you, you function like me and that is the core of our common humanity” |
Now what?
|
