Teaching+Permaculture

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Delvin completed a 2 year permaculture diploma, and is working on the master’s degree with the Mollison Institue. To complete his masters, he must do 80 hours of outreach, and design a 72 hour course curriculum.


 * Projects**:

They built a pond, a Balinese temple (with no nails), a herb spiral, a keyhole garden and a pond. They composed signage in English, French and Portugese, and printed a hard copy document and gave tours of the Pc elements.
 * [|Greening the festival circuit in Europe].


 * Heart of the Creek Garden Map is a community mapping initiative in Roberts Creek
 * [|Gaiacraft website] check out the flash animation of a [|hugelkulture mound bed]
 * [|Magazine article]


 * Discussion: Teaching Experience Success/Failures**


 * Weaknesses:**
 * The aftermath: What happens after the workshop? Is there retention and transfer?
 * Cleaning up
 * Over-emphasis on printed materials during workshop
 * Time constraints
 * Too much information
 * Teaching things you're not passionate or confident in
 * Not using language appropriate to the group.
 * Over-emphasis on theory as opposed to practice
 * Over-generalizing- not concentrating on specific, physical work
 * Over-emphasis on theory as opposed to practice
 * Over-generalizing- not concentrating on specific, physical work


 * Strengths:**
 * Energetic awareness.Empathizing with students/sensitive to whether students are engaged.
 * Dynamic, creative, engaging- a sense of performance
 * Inviting dialogue and discussion
 * Different mediums to match different learning styles i.e. visual, audio, practical/kinesthetic, dialogue etc
 * Teaching what you know
 * Practical and experiential
 * Offering examples that are relevant to participant's reality
 * Teaching grounded in practice of observation


 * For Discussion:**
 * Future of Pc education in BC
 * linked certification issues
 * programs for recognition post 72-hour course (don’t have systems to encourage people)
 * Are certifications important for people in BC?
 * Facilitating teacher training
 * Bioregional/Cascadian PC guild?