1 / 19

Elevating your program

Elevating your program. Experiential and Engaging Opportunities for your Students Carolina Bañuelos , MS Upward Bound Advisor, Colorado State University. Today’s Purpose. Objective:

brocka
Download Presentation

Elevating your program

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Elevating your program Experiential and Engaging Opportunities for your Students Carolina Bañuelos, MS Upward Bound Advisor, Colorado State University

  2. Today’s Purpose Objective: Provide you all with ideas, theory, and framework to help you build experiential and engaging presentations/opportunities in your day-to-day work with students and professionals •  What you get out of today will depend on you • Understand the “why” behind the “what” Methods: • Conversations in pairs or groups • Activity practice/participation

  3. Outline • History/Theory • John Dewey • Experiential Learning Cycle • Group Development Theory • Practice/Participation • Tuckman’s Model • Current CSU UB opportunities • Adventure Paradigm

  4. History and theory of Experiential/Adventure Education

  5. John dewey • Early 20th century educational reformer and philosophers • “We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience” • Thought is encouraged by direct experience (Dewey,1933) • Education and learning are social & interactive processes • Students thrive in an environment where they experience and interact with curriculum, and take part in own learning • Dates back to Socrates- an educated person is one “who questioned all through life”

  6. Experiential Learning cycle EXPERIENCE APPLICATION REFLECTION GENERALIZATION

  7. Group development Theory • Bruce Tuckman’s Model (1965) • Forming Stage • Storming Stage • Norming Stage • Performing Stage • Adjourning (1977)

  8. LET’S PRACTICE…

  9. Forming stage • RandomItem • Debrief Questions: • What surprised you about this activity? • Was it easy or hard to find something to tell? • What might you do the same or different with the students/professionals you work with? • What did you notice during the facilitation?

  10. Storming Stage • Blind Tank • Debrief Questions: • How did you feel when I asked for someone to be blindfolded? • How was it being blindfolded? • How was giving instructions? • What challenges do you foresee when facilitating this with students? • Where might you include this activity in your programs?

  11. Norming Stage • Story Ropes • What surprised you about this activity? • Was it easy or hard to find stories to tell? To share someone else’s story? • What might you do the same or different with the students/professionals you work with? • What did you notice about facilitation?

  12. Performing and Adjourning stage • Appreciation Circle/Paper Plane Reflection • Tap someone on the shoulder if… • Debrief Questions: • How did you feel during this activity? • How might your students respond to this activity? • When could you use this activity in the programs you run?

  13. Adventure Experience paradigm (Priest 1986) R I S K • Peril • Adventure “Sweet Spot” • Bored SKILLS

  14. 14er Trip “Adventure programming is the deliberate use of adventurous experiences to create a learning in individuals or groups that result in change for society and communities” (Priest, 1990).

  15. Alternative Summer Break TripBest Friends Animal Society, Kanab, UT “Main premise or goal of adventure education programming has been identified as personal growth and group development” (Hirsch, 1999 and Priest, 1987).

  16. Alternative Winter Break TripSan Salvador, Costa Rica • TRIO Alumni at Colorado State University • Walking Tree Collaboration • www.walkingtree.org • Luke Mueller (luke@walkingtree.org) • Requires intentional pre-trip, trip, and post trip experiential learning • Community building • Cultural sensitivity training • Reflection • Fundraising and financial aid • Lauren Project

  17. Alternative Winter Break TripSan Salvador, Costa Rica Interpersonal: interaction between 2 or more people, including skills of communication, cooperation, trust, conflict-resolution, and leadership Intrapersonal: awareness of self-concept, spirituality, confidence, and self-efficacy Priest (1990)

  18. Thank you!!! Carolina “Caro” Bañuelos Advisor, Colorado State University Upward Bound Carolina.Banuelos@colostate.edu

More Related