Self-Assessment: A Teaching Style to Foster Dialogue and Enhance Learning - Online Classroom

6:00-7:30pm PST via Zoom Meeting
Meeting link will be sent to registered attendees the day of the session.

Want to streamline learning while empowering your students all at once? 

Do your students / participants understand WHY they passed or failed an assessment?  If not, why not?  

Using self-assessment tools is a great way to foster more dialogue and empower students to take charge of their own learning. This interactive workshop will offer educational theory and practical applications of weaving self-assessment into outdoor education. 

Participants will receive supplemental reading and examples of self-assessment forms to adapt for their programs. 

Seminar Notes

This presentation will encourage attendees to speak up throughout the presentation and be interactive with prompting discussion questions interspersed within lecture segments. Breakout rooms will be used.

Pre-Reading:  ​​https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/self-assessment-a-tool-to-create-dialogue-and-enhance-learning

presenter

Steve Smith is a risk management consultant at Experiential Consulting, LLC. He has worked in the outdoor industry for over thirty years, including hundreds of days in the field instructing, administrative leadership roles with national organizations including Outward Bound and The Student Conservation Association, and helping The Mountaineers envision and launch Progressive Climbing Education as a member of the Adult Education department. Steve served as chair of the Wilderness Risk Management Conference (WRMC) for three years. He has a Master's degree in English Composition, along with six years of university-level teaching experience, and earned a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification from the Society for Human Resources Management, all of which help him view outdoor education through a variety of educational and administrative lenses. A regular speaker at regional and national conferences, Steve strives to make his presentations fun, engaging, and practical. He lives in Seattle and enjoys exploring the mountains, forests, and coastlines of the Pacific Northwest.