Re-Thinking Your Story of Learning and Teaching: How Theory Impacts Preparation and Delivery
Presented By:
Jennifer VanHorssen
Session Abstract:
Expanding deployment means growing internal coaches and requires new capacities. Knowing how to practice the kata routines ourselves does not necessarily translate into the ability to effectively foster development of the same skills in other learners.
Effective learning facilitators understand how people learn and focus on the specific needs of the individuals being coached. They expand their knowledge and adapt by experimenting with teaching tools from a ‘tool box’ of methods, supporting the learners on a path towards autonomy.
This session will emphasize the teaching aspect of coaching, how
to direct your abilities toward the learning process itself, and highlight how a personal theory of learning can help you cultivate greater learning in others.
In this session you will…
- explore how methods used in the learning process directly relate to the outcomes/actions of the learner
- learn about the difference between learning as a product and learning as a process, and
- begin to build a personal theory of learning and teaching
Facilitator Bio:
Jennifer VanHorssen is a learner, change agent and a continuous improvement practitioner. Her unique lens on transformation comes from a broad range of experiences in the fields of education and nonprofit leadership. Jennifer believes that learning is relational and she finds joy and meaning through learning from and with others. Currently her work is focused on the application of continuous improvement/lean principles in the social sector in a manner that avoids ‘copying and pasting’. Together with people and organizations she is exploring ways to re-think, transform, and adapt concepts prior to integration in schools and nonprofits environments.