Who is this course for?

• Community activists, designers, homesteaders and anyone who wishes to share the knowledge of systems thinking and integrated self-reliant living strategies

• Professional teachers who wish to expand and fine-tune their Permaculture knowledge

• Permaculture Design Course Graduates

What will you learn?

• The awareness of how adults learn

• To assess your personal assets

• Tools to teach what you know

What you can expect from this course?

• Keeping participants engaged through changing the conventional paradigm of teaching

• Skill building with a focus on goals you wish to accomplish

• Enhancing your abilities toward critical thinking.  Such as: What are your intentions and goals as an educator? How teaching serves you and others?

• Understanding how goal setting generates learning outcomes which evolves to content

• Community building: this includes transformational learning, the co-creativity model and more

• Teaching strategies

• Creating the awareness of teaching about design and the relevancy of practical design application

Learning Interactions

• Recognizing your learning styles and how this impacts your ways of teaching

• Applying documentation through note taking & journaling

• Building a vocabulary of learning modalities, such as: shifting from passive to active learning, visual, auditory, kinesthetic learning, Howard Gardner’s eight intelligence’s, transformational learning, and using resources from researchers who have articulated how people best learn.

• Observing how people best learn through their experiences with teaching styles

• Practicing the Art of Facilitation: From deep listening to timeliness to working with challenges in the educational setting

What are the course activities?

• Presenting at least three teaching modules as a way to practice and build self-confidence.

• Offer and receive supportive respectful critiques of these presentations, enhancing the opportunity to Adapt and Advance your skills with timing and delivery.

• Encouraging you to identify your unique personal teaching style(s), what is your ‘shtick’?

• Teach Pc Creatively by ‘edutainment’ (education and entertainment)

• Presenting a final group project to the public: An Introduction to Permaculture

What can you expect from the venue?

• Beautiful setting with multiple micro-climates

• Permaculture systems in place

• Three deliciously prepared, sourced from the land/local and organic meals a day

• Comfortable camping locations

Feel free to contact Jude with any questions or more information: infocascadiapc@gmail.com

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