Enabling Learning Course

As a teacher (trainer, educator or facilitator) you have the noble responsibility of helping others acquire knowledge and skills that they will apply in their work. In doing so, you want to ensure that you create a space for enabling learning, so that your learners have rich, rewarding and valuable experiences. The good news is; being a good teacher – making it easy for people to learn – is a skill that you can learn.

We have designed this course for you if you have a deep desire to:

• Be the type of teacher that can make even the most boring or difficult subject become captivating for your students
• Be the type of teacher that helps your students learn, rather than simply memorize information to pass exams, and helps them truly understand the material and make subjects their own
• Help your students learn how to learn, so that they can maintain updating their knowledge with developments in the field

The course offers basics of teaching and learning. In each learning cycle, or module, the participants will be introduced to principles, ideas and techniques to ‘enabling learning’ with a strong focus on experiential learning – learning by doing. The cycles will touch on the following thematic areas:

•  Preparing for learning
•  Planning learning
•  Facilitating learning
•  Assessing learning
•  Program/course evaluation

We have designed this course in a way that requires the partakers to reflect on, and immediately apply, what they are learning to their teaching and/or training responsibilities. The face-to-face and online learning components are combined in a blended learning program, with the online course running over a period of six months and the face-to-face sessions of three days taking place at the beginning and end of the course.