Teaching for Transformation: Approaches to Farmers as Learners

Join us for a day-long training focused on teaching and facilitating adults. This training will highlight the process of designing educational environments for adult learners. Based on popular education with its focus on dialogue and interaction versus presentation of information, this will be a day of interaction, practice and reflection. Together we will explore building communities of practice and creating educational resources for adults within the context of required content.

Date and Time:

January 13th, 2023

10:00am-4:00pm

University of Wisconsin Arboretum

1207 Seminole Highway

Madison, Wisconsin

Breaks and lunch provided

Event/registration link: Marbleseed Teaching for Transformation

Fee: Registration of $10.00

There are funds to support farmers in attending this training. Stipends range from $60-120 and are intended to support the cost of transportation to and from the event and lodging, if needed. Information on stipend and registration reimbursement will be shared after the event. Email info@marbleseed.org if you are a farmer and are interested in a stipend to attend this event.

Marbleseed is offering scholarships to 14 attendees so they have the opportunity to further their knowledge and skills at the 2023 Organic Farming Conference convergence!

Agenda

·Andragogy: What does the theory say?

·Popular Education and Education for Action

·Centering Learners: Planned Content

·Centering Learners: Spontaneous Content

·“To know a thing does not mean you do a thing”; What about measuring outcomes?

This training is supported by NCR-SARE Grant ENC22-209 “Educational Methods for Farmer Self-Organizing.”

Five professional development continuing education units (CEUs) are offered for this event. Attendance sheet will be available at the event.

About Your Facilitator

Lori Stern, MA Ed is the current Executive Director at Marbleseed. She received her master’s degree in adult education with a focus on professional development and program design. Lori has published curricula and developed trainings for teachers on interactive learning methods and popular education.