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Theory to Practice

Activity: “Gogy” Your Own Way

This activity may take you 10-15 minutes.

  • Select an activity you have previously designed for your teaching, or a content topic you will likely teach in the future.
  • Choose one of the following two pathways depending on whether you chose an existing activity of a content topic you will likely teaching in the future:
    • If you have selected an existing activity: identify which of the three “gogies” that activity aligns with best. Then, write down how that activity could be redesigned to be delivered in the style of the other two “gogies”.
    • If you have selected a content topic (with no associated activity design at this point): imagine how that content could be delivered in (i) a pedagogical way, (ii) an andragogical way, or (iii) a heutagogical way. Write down your ideas.
  • Reflect on which of the three ways you are most likely to deliver that activity given your teaching context. Why did you choose that one?

Revisiting Your Reflection:

Please take 3 minutes and revisit the following questions as well as the answers you wrote down at the beginning of this workshop. Have your ideas changed, deepened, expanded, or narrowed?

  • What is learning?
  • What defines an adult learner?
  • How do you teach an adult learner?

Take an additional moment to write down your ultimate takeaway from this workshop: How will your understanding of these theories influence your teaching practice?