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Do you mentor, coach, teach or just help other people? Do you wonder why after your greatest teaching moments people just don’t get it? In recent years neuroscience has started to provide us with a number of insights into what happens when we’re teaching. These insights make it clear that learning is really about building and reinforcing existing neural networks. Instead of providing lots of new ideas out of the blue, we need to understand the learners existing context and work with that. Instead of focusing on mistakes and errors, we need to focus on what good solutions look like.
Top 5 Reasons that traditional approaches to learning and mentoring fail:
Lead with the Abstract
Not Grounded in the Listeners experience
Passive students – i.e. Those just listening and taking notes, aren’t using all of the brain. They retain knowledge but don’t really understand it.
Rewards don’t work
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Benefits:
Students and Mentees will remember
Learn how to correct mistakes
Workshop Attendees will stay awake
Timeand Date: Tuesday October 13th: Pizza + Networking from 6:00 – 6:30; Presentation from 6:30 to 8:00
Location: the Code Factory (2nd Floor - 246 Queen Street), you need to buzz for the elevator.
Agile Ottawa is a group for anyone interested in Agile Software Development in the Ottawa region. The group organizes events the 2nd Tuesday of every month at the Code Factory (2nd Floor - 246 Queen Street) – events usually begin at 6:30pm.
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