Conferences Presentations
Jennifer Stanchfield’s conference workshops and presentations, 2010:
Facilitator’s Toolbox
Association for Challenge Course Technology, February 2010
Come fill your facilitation toolbox with creative, practical activities and ideas to enhance your ability to effectively lead and engage your group. Gain perspective on your role as a group facilitator, gather techniques for creating a positive learning environment, increase participant involvement and facilitate meaningful processing and group dialogue. Join in with a playful spirit and willingness to share and leave with a valuable set of tools for the art of experiential group facilitation.
The Art of Experiential Group Facilitation
Maine Counseling Association Conference
Samoset Maine April 12th-13th 2010
Come fill your facilitation toolbox with creative, practical activities and ideas to enhance your ability to effectively lead and engage your group. Gain perspective on your role as an educator or group facilitator, gather techniques for creating a positive learning environment, increasing participant involvement and facilitating meaningful processing and group dialogue. Whether you are new to the field and looking for an insightful overview of group facilitation, or a seasoned veteran seeking inspiration and new ideas, join in with a playful spirit and willingness to share and leave with a valuable set of tools for the art of experiential group facilitation and teaching.
Teachable Moments: Innovative Processing Tools and Techniques
Texas Experiential Resources Conference April 8th and 9th
Reflection brings learning to life. It helps learners make connections between educational experiences and real life situations and creates pathways to future learning. Educators recognize the value of reflection and processing, but often find that facilitating it is one of the most challenging aspects of group facilitation and teaching. This interactive workshop offers a variety of innovative tools and and approaches that engage group members in an active and meaningful way. Liven up the traditional sharing circle with new twists on ways to engage groups in dialogue and reflection and turn teachable moments into profound personal insights and lasting lessons. Come and experiment with an interesting array of methods that meet a wide range of learning styles. Leave with new processing tools, activities and ideas to add to your facilitation repertoire.
Experiential, Brain Friendly Strategies to Build a Classroom Community and Enhance Learning
Texas Experiential Resources Conference April 8th and 9th http://txtera.org/
Educators are faced with the challenge of meeting the needs of a broad range of learning styles in their classrooms. Come learn practical ways to engage and motivate students, inspire a sense of discovery, desire to learn, and create a positive and supportive learning community. We will explore the impact of brain-based research on teaching and learning. Participants will engage in a variety of active learning approaches to differentiate instruction, build community and enhance learning outcomes. These methods empower students to take more responsibility for their learning, help encourage experimentation and creativity while helping them practice important social and emotional skills. Join in this fun and interactive workshop and leave with useful activities, strategies, and new perspectives on experiential education and differentiated lesson planning.
Adventures in Learning and Teaching: Experiential Approaches to Creating a Classroom Community and Teaching Curricular Content
Association for Experiential Education, Pre-Conference Session
April 23rd, Camp Kieve, Maine www.aee.org
In this workshop educators will explore a variety of active learning approaches and interactive games and activities that can enhance their ability to engage and motivate students and create a positive environment for learning starting on day one and maintaining it throughout the school year. Educators will leave with practical activities, methods and tools to use in their classroom as well as new perspectives on differentiated instruction, lesson planning, and facilitating reflection with students.
The Art of Experiential Group Facilitation
Association for Experiential Education, Northeast Regional Conference, April 23-25th
Come fill your facilitation toolbox with creative, practical activities and ideas for effectively leading and engaging your group. Gain perspective on your role as a facilitator, gather techniques for creating a positive learning environment, increasing participant involvement and facilitating meaningful reflection. Whether you are new to the field and looking for an insightful overview of group facilitation, or a seasoned veteran seeking inspiration and new ideas, here is your chance to gather some valuable tools and explore the art of experiential facilitation and teaching.
Experiential, Brain- Friendly Strategies to Build a Classroom Community and Enhance Learning
Association for Experiential Education, Northeast Conference, April 23th- 24th, 2010
www.aee.org
Come learn practical ways to engage and motivate students, inspire a sense of discovery, desire to learn, and create a positive and supportive learning community. We will explore the impact of brain based research on teaching and learning. Participants will engage in a variety of active learning approaches to differentiate instruction and enhance learning outcomes. These methods empower students to take more responsibility for their learning and help encourage experimentation and creativity. Join in this fun and interactive workshop and leave with new perspectives on experiential education, lesson planning, and how to capitalize on your own unique style and strengths as an educator.
Experiential Strategies to Engage and Motivate Students, Differentiate Instruction, and Build a Positive Environment for Learning
The Vermont BEST Institute, Killington, VT June 21st-24th, 2010
This strand explores experiential methods for creating and maintaining a positive environment for learning, differentiating instruction and increasing involvement and buy in from students. Educators will gain a variety of brain-based active learning approaches and interactive activities that will help liven up lessons in Math, Science, English, Health and other academic subjects and encourage experimentation and creative problem solving. We’ll share practical teaching tools and a variety of engaging activities that you can use to develop a healthy atmosphere of respect and trust within your classroom and throughout your school, and help students take more control and responsibility for their learning. These practical methods and strategies will support school efforts around building positive behavioral supports, teaching important social and emotional skills in students and differentiating instruction. Join in this fun and interactive course and leave with new perspectives on experiential education, brain-based learning, classroom community building, differentiated lesson planning and how to capitalize on your own unique style and strengths as an educator.
