Great Ideas Teach & Share Forum

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Short Description

Looking for innovative teaching or leadership development practices? Designed for both experienced and novice leadership educators, this highly interactive forum is for those interested in expanding their teaching practices and pedagogical toolboxes. Participants will give, receive, and see great approaches to teaching a leadership concept. Share your great idea, and leave with many more!

Detailed Abstract

“Great Ideas Share and Teach Forum.” This session has been very popular with leadership education participants for the past eight years, allowing conference attendees to share ideas, meet, and network with one another. Further, the session provides a great opportunity to solicit involvement in the Leadership Education Member Interest Group. We propose a 90 minute structured workshop in which both experienced and novice leadership educators come together to share their ‘best practices’ in small interactive groups. We need a room with roundtables and flip charts with markers set up for an interactive session. After a brief introduction, we prime attendees with questions, provide an “open space” type setting and pose the following using preprinted cards:

Tell us your great ideas about teaching:
♣ leadership theory
♣ leadership attitudes/ styles
♣ experiential learning and leadership practice


Step One: Create One: Teaching case/activity: Write up your idea for teaching a specific leadership concept. Facilitators will provide a handout with process and notes to distribute for participants. Table members will then use template for activity write-up.

Template
Leadership topic:
Objective/Purpose of lesson:
Theoretical Base:
Materials Needed:
Activity:

Step Two: Do One: Reciprocal teaching: After writing up the created activity, share around a table the ideas for teaching. Need sheets of paper.

Step Three: Teach One: Shift groups. Again, share ideas with the new group.

Step Four: Ask volunteers from each group to briefly show this activity in action- they can engage some members of the group in the activity so people can have a visual of the activity or lesson in action.

Final Step: Evaluate Process. Share in large group the lessons learned from this process; if attendees want to pursue writing, sharing ideas beyond the conference; if this workshop should continue next year; how to change, make the workshop different and/or better. Participants will be asked to turn in their idea with their name and email.

*Ideas will be compiled and e-mailed to workshop participants and added to the "Teaching Activities" Community Resource on the ILA Leadership Education MIG homepage: http://www.ila-net.org/Communities/MIGs/GreatIdeasTeach&Learn.pdf

Sub Unit

• Leadership Education

Presenters

• Daniel Jenkins, University of Southern Maine

• Anthony Middlebrooks, University of Delaware

• Paige Haber-Curran, Texas State University