Sessions:
No More Boring Trainings
Monday, May 3, 2021 9:30 am – 11:05 am EST
Presenter: Erin Fullerman
Session Level: Initial
Description:
Discover how to integrate game elements to any learning program, offline or online, and engage users with fun training that gets the job done. This session will conclude with a 5-minute break and then a 30-minute debrief and action planning session with Training Coach April Brown. In order to receive credit, you must attend the full session.
Outcomes:
- Evaluate 11 benefits and pitfalls of using games
- Discuss 6 keys to make sure games add to training without distracting
- Review 14 fun ways to assess learning or debrief activities
Number of Hours: 1.5
Interactive Cross-Training: Techniques that Work Live and Online
Monday, May 3, 2021 2:30 pm – 4:05 pm EST
Presenter: Erin Fullerman
Session Level: Initial
Description:
Whether your training is F2F or live online, you can create an interactive dynamic that keeps people comin’ back for more. Join Erin and pick up easy techniques to get maximum engagement in any setting. Bob Pike Group clients consistently say our training is fun, even refreshing. Yours can be too! This session will conclude with a 5-minute break and then a 30-minute debrief and action planning session with Training Coach April Brown. In order to receive credit, you must attend the full session.
Outcomes:
- 5 easy ways to put learners in charge of their training
- Techniques that enable participants to “do for themselves”
Number of Hours: 1.5
Win Participants Over, Gain Buy-in, and Increase Your Impact with the Power of Your Stories
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm EST
Presenter: Raelene Ostberg
Session Level: Intermediate
Description:
Storytelling is a crucial component of connecting with your group and gaining the buy-in needed to facilitate learning and growth in others. Yet it can be tricky to identify which stories will best serve your purpose, when to incorporate the story, and how to tell that story impactfully (both online and in-person). Watch, analyze, and gain knowledge from this engaging live webinar presentation. View video examples of successful speakers telling their stories. Explore specific examples of stories used in the development and delivery of early childhood content. Consider which types of stories might work best for the topic you are passionate about. Identify the why, what, and how of telling your story that will keep participants open to your message and leave your audience with greater understanding and support for the ideas you just delivered.
Outcomes:
- Identify types of stories that will enhance the delivery of the education you provide
- Label methods for telling stories during your trainings and coaching (online and in-person), that will increase your impact and gain buy-in from your participants.
Number of Hours: 2
Yeah, But How Do You Do That Online?: Designing Online Professional Development Programs
Friday, May 7, 2021 9:30 am – 11:30 am EST
Presenter: Alicia Benben & Jennifer Pusateri
Session Level: Intermediate
Description:
Are you an experienced trainer who is struggling to adapt your in-person workshop to an online setting? Join University of Kentucky online instructional design consultants, Jennifer Pusateri and Alicia Benben, to discuss approaches and processes for translating your face-to-face content into an online format. In this session, we will explore best practices for engaging adult learners in the online space, discover simple ways to include interactive components in your online training and discuss how to ensure your training program delivers on its promises. Due to the interactive nature of this workshop, we highly recommend that participants use a device that allows for the simultaneous opening of multiple tabs and windows.
Outcomes:
- Translate in-person training activities to online presentation options.
- Explore strategies for engaging adult learners in the online space.
- Utilize adult-learner instructional design principles to plan, organize, and deliver an online workshop.
Number of Hours: 2
Now What? A Conversation on Bias and Impact
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST
Presenter: Colene Elridge
Session Level: Intermediate
Description:
The definition of implicit bias is as follows:
The unconscious attitudes, stereotypes and unintentional actions (positive or negative) towards members of a group merely because of their membership in that group. These associations develop over the course of a lifetime beginning at a very early age through exposure to direct and indirect messages. When people are acting out of their implicit bias, they are not even aware that their actions are biased. In fact, those biases may be in direct conflict with a person’s explicit beliefs and values. That’s what makes it so challenging to see the difference between what you believe and your behavior.
This engaging conversation will review implicit bias, discuss how to become more aware of your own bias, how your bias can impact the work you do, and real and tangible ways to be aware of your bias and remove them. It’s not always an easy conversation, but it is necessary to move forward.
Outcomes:
- Review of implicit bias and how it impacts our perspective.
- Understanding of individual roles in creating more inclusive cultures.
- Create an individual Action Plan to build cultures of inclusions.
Number of Hours: 2
For the Love of Children! Why Adult Development Matters
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 9:30 am – 11:30 am EST
Presenter: Susan MacDonald
Session Level: Intermediate
Description:
You’ve probably experienced this: frustration builds, teacher turnover rises, staff meetings become stagnant, and negativity creeps into the school culture. The solution? Explore new ways to inspire and motivate teachers to engage in their own professional growth. During this powerful presentation, Susan will give you an exclusive peek into her newest book Inspiring Professional Growth, and teach you innovative ways to:
- Be deliberate and intentional in establishing a growth culture
- Use strength-based strategies to support ongoing professional growth
- Build collaboration among even the most challenging individuals and teams
- Create impactful and achievable goals to facilitate professional accountability and sustainable change
You will leave Susan’s session energized with new strategies, easy to use tips, reflective exercises, and resources to start making the changes necessary to develop programs where children and teachers grow and develop!
Outcomes:
- Identify three key benefits of utilizing new strategies to support the ongoing professional development of the teachers in their program
- Enhance their ability to use new strategies to positively influence the growth culture of their organization
- Develop their capacity to make sustainable changes to their system for supporting the professional growth of teachers
Number of Hours: 2
Remembered, Not Forgotten: Using Brain-Based Teaching Strategies that Ensure Participants Remember What You Teach
Thursday, May 13, 2021 9:30 am – 11:30 am EST
Presenter: Nicki Patton Rowe
Session Level: Intermediate
Description:
Designed for ECE trainers and/or instructors teaching CDA or ECE college courses, this interactive session will explore brain-based instructional strategies that help participants remember what you taught them. New insights into how memories are encoded and retrieved dictate the use of new and modified instructional strategies that lead to better retention and more complex mastery. During this session, participants will:
- Learn about and experience instructional strategies that support 3 key memory processes (attention, elaboration, retrieval
- Discuss how commonly used training strategies can lead to an illusion of mastery
- Describe the importance of effortful retrieval, spaced learning and feedback as well as ways to incorporate these strategies into trainings/courses
- Brainstorm ways they can incorporate new strategies into their own trainings/courses
This session includes a 2 hour webinar, and a pre-assignment. In order to receive credit, you must attend the webinar and complete the pre-assignment.
Outcomes:
- Explain how the brain processes information and constructs knowledge and the implications for instructional design
- Select instructional strategies that support 3 key memory processes – attention, elaboration and retrieval
- Describe the importance of effortful retrieval, spaced learning and feedback and ways to incorporate these strategies into trainings/courses