Natural Medicine Educator’s Forum
Fostering Kindness in Education: Strategies and Insights
The Australian Traditional-Medicine Society (ATMS) invites you to join an engaging educator’s forum focused on enacting kindness in education. This forum will provide valuable strategies and insights to help you maintain your passion for teaching, even when you feel exhausted.
🗓️Friday 6 September 2024
🕚11:00am-1:00pm (AEST)
💻Online free event
➡️2 CPE points
🔑Key Topics Include:
-Practical strategies to maintain your passion for teaching
-Implement and maintain positive engagement and dynamic assessment tasks
-Motivate and inspire challenging students
-Enliven dull units and open the desire to embrace them
Let’s uncover the power of teaching with heart and learn how small acts of kindness can create a ripple effect, fostering a supportive and inspiring educational journey for all.
In adult education:
-Kindness is central to inspirational and transformative educational practice
-Kindness fosters an inclusive environment, encourages open dialogue, enriches student emotional and social wellbeing, and nurtures the intrinsic motivation to learn
-Kindness is about love and commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, and trust
-It’s about honouring students and invoking mutual respect
-Simply put, kindness matters!
📋Program Overview
11:00am: Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
-Dr Brad McEwen PhD, Chair ATMS Academic & Research Committee
11:05am: Teaching With Heart: How kindness matters in adult education
-Louise Rubic MPH, A&RC Committee Member and Senior Learning Facilitator, Torrens University Australia
11:25am: Lecturer and Student panel
-Facilitator: Dr Airdre Grant PhD
11:55am: Break out rooms- group discussion
-How do you inspire challenging students
-How to maintain your love of teaching
-How do you enliven dull units and open the desire to embrace them
12:25pm: Discussion of points, answering chat questions
12:55pm: Wrap up and close
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