Worker to Sage: Dual Professional

This course is designed to help you effectively convey what you love about your profession and know-how to inspire and engage learners with confidence and motivation. It can be a bridge to support employer engagement and build the confidence of employees/workers and their connection with learning settings. Employers would benefit their team members to participate in this course so that the school/community experience is a positive one and meaningful for their company's well being. Schools would benefit to have visiting collaborators take part in this course so that collaborators coming in have some baseline with how to effectively present and can more quickly and effectively 'jump' into the school setting. It is always best to have some training ahead of the experience.

This course will have four segments- you are welcome to take all or some of them depending upon the time you have to commit. Each segment will be 50 minutes long and will include some takeaway material. Below are the topics and key questions that we will answer collectively.
Part 1: Knowing One's Role
Who am I as a professional?
What do I offer to learners?
How do I gauge my learner group?

Part 2: Designing Learning
Learning Cycle- the secrets to planning impactful lessons.

Part 3: Facilitating- micro-teaching practice (For this session be prepared to share a 5-minute presentation to the group.)
What are the different ways to share knowledge?

Part 4: Evaluating your Influence
Explore ways to cultivate a network of interested novices.
Learn different ways of assessing the learning from your impact.
Identify the next steps for both you and your learners.

Each session will be highly interactive with the goal that at the end you will have a toolkit of strategies to collaborate within a

Will there be any homework? - Given that this is a four week course you will be required to do some homework and preparation specifically between lesson 2 and 3. How much time you will need to dedicate outside of the will depend on you and how much time you need to prepare a short teach session to trial out in week three.

Mara has over 25 years of experience in education. She and her business partner, Rajashree Anand have founded EduMenTeach to help support teaching and learning in a variety of ways. This course specifically taps their expertise from their experience teaching training teachers for the Post 16 sector in the UK. Many of their trainees had to engage with employers as part of their own curriculum and oftentimes employers were challenged when coming into the college or secondary setting. The teachers had little time to support the employers and employers felt a bit challenged in these settings with Gen Z prevailing. Mara has experienced first hand the success of this course.