Covered in Chapter A Unit 2.2

Write one paragraph about yourself answering the following questions:

1.What’s your name?

2.Give a short summary of your CV.

3.What is your cultural background and where are you from? – TeachSurfing workshops aim to bridge the cultural gaps through knowledge sharing. By offering a workshop you are not only sharing your knowledge but you become a representative of your culture and country. The participants not only learn new knowledge but get in direct contact with a person from a different culture and build openness for new cultures.

4.What experience makes you qualified to offer this workshop?

List your study or work experiences related to the workshop. For example, if you are offering a workshop about renewable energy, mention where you gained this knowledge, for example, your education or work experiences related to this field. If you teach meditation, explain what kind of meditation and for how long you have been practicing.

5.Finally, what is your motivation to share your knowledge?

Most TeachSurfers are passionate about a specific topic and they experience that certain communities do not have access to this kind of knowledge. This creates a strong motivation and desire to share their knowledge. Other people may have participated in a TeachSurfing workshop and became inspired to give back to the TeachSurfing community with their own knowledge.

Covered in Chapter A Unit 2.2

Your workshop summary shall include the building blocks listed below.

– Workshop objectives

New content:

– Theoretical section

Include a short section for theoretical knowledge in your workshop and focus mainly on sharing applied knowledge, such as practical real-life examples/projects and your unique story.

– Interactive section

Interactive activities and exercises will help participants to get engaged and learn by doing. Make sure to include an interactive part in your workshop. Some examples how to plan your workshop’s interactive section are listed below:

A) Include Q&A at the beginning, during and at the end of the workshop – your workshop can have a conversation format and before each session you can ask questions to engage the audience and after each session you can ask questions to get their feedback. In case your audience are new, diverse group who do not know each other and you have limited information about them, we recommend you to think about short activity that would help participants to know each other.

B) Plan exercise(s) in groups, pairs, or on an individual level for instance if your are teaching your language and culture, invite other native speakers to your workshop and make small groups where the participants can practice their learned sentences together with the native speakers. Or if you are teaching about a specific hardware, bring some samples of the hardware to the workshop and help the participants to start programming the hardware.

C) Take a case study from the participants to the stage – for example, if one of your workshop objectives is to support the participants in their job interview process, take one of the participants on the stage and run a live interview session with her. Afterwards, you can touch on some learning points and help the participants in general improve their interview skills.

Covered in Chapter A Unit 2.2

Who would you recommend to take part in your workshop?

Are there any age restrictions or previous knowledge required?

For example:

– Age 16+

– Participants should have basic knowledge in C programing including statements (if/else, while, for) and operators (==, <, !=, ++, &, |, ~).

New content:

Here you should think about the content of the workshop and the characteristics of the participants. You can write about characteristics of your target group in relation to their learning styles introduced to you in Unit B.1.1 Knowing yourself as a learner. You can look through the description of each style of the test you conducted at the end of Unit B.1.1.

For example: The workshop is suitable for all people who prefer practical tasks, who are confident to reflect, who are willing to gain new knowledge, who are keen to try out your ideas and so on.

What do participants need to bring to the workshop? What material does the Host need to provide?

Some examples are listed below:

i.Participants should bring drawing blocks, pencils, usb-stick

ii.Host organisation should provide projector

iii.Host organisation should provide computer

The agenda gives a quick snapshot of your workshop to the Host organisations. Your agenda should include:

Introduction

○ About yourself and your background

○ What makes you qualified to hold this workshop

Theoretical section

○ List the main topics covered in your workshop.

Interactive section

○ Present the interactive part of your workshop.

If you don’t know the exact workshop times, please put an approximate date and time when you would be available. If you already have an exact date and time, please add it.

An average workshop length is 120 minutes and from our experience, workshops with lecturing formats or lengthy theoretical parts tend to be shorter (e.g. cultural presentations) while workshops with hands-on and interactive formats (e.g. programing workshops) will take longer.

Some examples of how you can propose your workshop:

Example for when the date is to be decided:
Date to be determined, between 01.07.2023 to 10.08.2023. Workshop duration: 2-4 hours. Start time: 4:00 pm.

Example for when the date is fixed:
Fixed date 27.07.2023. Workshop duration: 2 hours. Starting time to be determined.

Example of when the date is flexible:
Available Wednesdays between 5-8 pm. Workshop duration is 3 hours.

We recommend you to plan your first TeachSurfing workshop to be completed in under 2 hours. Please consider that each additional workshop hour requires extra preparation time from your side.

Coming up in Chapter D Unit 1.2.

Coming up in Chapter D Unit 1.2.

Coming up in Chapter D Unit 1.2.