MY PROGRAM
Leading Experiential Teaching and Learning
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Offers experiential educators an opportunity to obtain the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to engage in leadership practices to negotiate challenges and opportunities associated with experiential teaching and learning by applying the different leadership frameworks. Explores how to lead successful professional development experiences and how to establish and support effective professional learning communities. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to lead efforts to engage with, leverage, and contribute to different networks dedicated to supporting experiential teaching and learning
COURSE SYLLABUS
ASSIGNMENTS
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Experiential Learning Plan: Involving Managers in Customized Programs
COURSE REFLECTION
I have been thinking about the possibility of a manager toolkit for over a year now, but have not had the time to develop it. This course offered an excellent opportunity to do so and gave me leadership and deeper learning frameworks that helped me organize my thoughts in a comprehensive manner. While I still have work to do, including collecting the feedback of my incoming manager, I do think that this plan is in a format that makes it easy to share.
I am always most interested in skipping right to the building stage, following frameworks to create this plan forced me to consider all of the steps that need to occur before I can start creating the actual toolkit. I particularly liked the exercise of incorporating the six C’s of deeper learning. As I addressed each of the C’s I realized that some of them were missing from my original plan and so I went back and did my best to incorporate all of them.
Throughout this master’s program I have created many resources that can be used in my position at the Roux Institute. However, this is the first class where I was required to get feedback on my project from work colleagues. Determining what exactly I would like their feedback on, organizing that feedback and addressing it was more time consuming than I thought, but extremely helpful. It was really invigorating to hear what my colleagues throughout the university thought of my plan and to asses all of their suggestions. Incorporating their feedback will definitely make this plan stronger.
See the Reflection section of the above document for additional details.