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Deeply engaging a learner requires that you attract and hold
their attention and also that you involve them personally in the process of their
learning.
When was the last time that a training workshop you facilitated swept your learners
off their feet? That mentally, physically, and emotionally they were so engaged
in the learning as to be "taken away" from the reality of life for a while?
Really engaging a learner feels akin to watching a great
movie: we are swept away until the movie ends and we settle back into real
life.
Jane Vella, author of Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach writes about
engagement as a principle of adult learning. Engagement enables learners to take
an active part in the learning process and also to practice their learning as
subjects of their own lives. Begin by designing learning based on a competent
needs assessment. This is helping in building engagement into the learning.
Here are some tips to make your learning more engaging:
- Put yourself in the learner's shoes when designing learning. Then
ask yourself: What activity would be so engaging that I'd be swept away in
the learning process?
- Partner with learners to create a safe learning environment where
learners feel free and open to practice, make mistakes, and to give and
receive feedback.
- Design learning exercises that mirror real life, but that are way more
fun!
- Create opportunities for learners to practice the skills or knowledge on
their own real life scenarios.
- Make learning active (never sedentary and simply listening). Allow
learners to do what you are teaching.
- Give a small group of learners the materials and resources they need to
respond to an open question. Then turn your content into questions the
learners can discover interactively.
- Do the unexpected while maintaining the safety of the learning
environment.
Coaching Inquiries: How engaging is the learning that I design / facilitate?
What engages me? What learning exercises will I toss out and replace with ones
that are deeply engaging? What learning exercises will sweep my learners off
their feet?
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May you be filled with goodness, peace, and joy.
Christina Lombardo Ray, PCC, CPCC (Christina@LifeTrekCoaching.com)
LifeTrek Coaching International
Columbus, OH
U.S.A.
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