Overview

The Teaching Workshop provides participants with a greater understanding of the philosophy and methods that provoke a mindset among students to take ownership for their learning. Participants establish enriched learning environments by organizing the classroom environment to encourage interaction; learning how to facilitate discussions; integrating assessments of student learning outcomes; and performing self-assessments to grow their own skills.

Teaching Institute learning outcomes will help participants to:

• incorporate more process approaches in their teaching
• value their role as mentors
• integrate new and improved student learning techniques and tools
• incorporate existing process curricula and learn to design process curricula for use in their own courses
• value the importance of self-assessment in the growth process and design strategies to make more use of specific assessment tools with students and themselves to increase student success

Agenda

Day 1

8 am - 5pm

• Overview of the Workshop
• Defining Process Education (PE)
• Team Goal Setting Levels of Learner Knowledge
• Learning Process Methodology
• Creating a Productive Learning Environment
• Managing Learner Frustration
• Consulting/Q&A session

Day 2

8 am - 5pm

• Knowledge Tables
• Team Reflection/Discoveries
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Assessment Methodology
• Classroom Assessment Techniques
• Facilitation Methodology
• Modeling a PE Learning Environment
• Consulting/Q&A session

Day 3

8 am - 4pm

• Team Project (based on Team Goals)
• Overview of Designing a Course
• Designing a Student Success Course
• Designing a Quality Enhancement Plan
• Exploring Sample Curricula
• Consulting/Q&A session Assessment of the Institute

What is Process Education?

The articulation of Process Education has evolved over time and reflects a synthesis of the change processes taking place in higher education. Process Education includes: active learning, student-centered learning, mentoring, assessment, use of technology and the learning paradigm. A concise definition for Process Education (PE) is as follows:

an educational philosophy which focuses on building students’ learning skills (in all domains) and developing “self-growers”

Philosophy

Process Education is a philosophy rather than a particular method or set of methods. Each process educator must choose how to best implement the philosophy by customizing an approach (from a broad set of techniques, processes, and tools) to suit his or her own unique context and learning environment to produce successful students.

Learning Skills

Classification of Learning Skills for Educational Enrichment and Assessment identifies 15 key processes and more than 275 specific skills from four domains: cognitive, social, affective, and psychomotor. Building students’ proficiency with skills from this extensive classification is a primary objective of process educators to advance learner performance.

Self-grower

Learners can be described according to their level of performance in the learning process. The two endpoints on this continuum of performance are trained individuals and self-growers. Self-growers are high performing individuals who have a highly developed set of skills across all domains and are set for life success.