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Session 9:
L&D Methods
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 Name of
your group?

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 Reflection

Share your experiences of working together in the team

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How do you teach
people teamwork?

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 Haven’t
they always
been
working in
teams?

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 Why
Outdoors?

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What are the main learnings from the OET?

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Insurmountable Task

Secret of success – “Team spirit”

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 Outdoor experiential training
• Harness natural passion to work with a feeling of team spirit
• Requires one to come out of their comfort zones and take risks
• Develop curiosity, skills, knowledge and courage
• Overcoming fear
• Trust building
• Communication
• Challenging situations – diversity of approaches emerge
• Surprises happen – innovation, creativity, taking care, empathy
• Participants live and experience the values

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Is there any other way of teaching similar ideas without outdoor
experiential training? WHY?

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Recall incidents from

your life that have
inspired most
learning!
What inspires learning?

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 Passive view of learning Active / Constructivist view of learning
Empty vessel, Transfer of information Learners construct meaning only through active
engagement with the world

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Learning through reflection

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Then what is the role of Teacher !

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The art of teaching is the
art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren

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If things do not go the way,
you want them to go

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HAVE FUN !
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 When did life become so boring?
How can you make learning a life long pursuit?

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 All learning is self-directed
• Increasing Diversity

• Ongoing discovery

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 The only problem with
today’s lecture is that I have
made my role as a teacher
redundant. But think about
it.

Is that the not the best thing

that I could have done?

To prepare you for life !

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