So what does the course really entail?
This page will hopefully answer all of your questions regarding what the course actually includes and give you a great insight as to what to expect. If you still have any questions please head over to our FAQ page or contact us!
AIMS
The Speaking of Veganism… seminars aim to provide students with an opportunity to:
1. Identify their own professional scope within the context of delivering vegan education to
non-vegans.
2.Evaluate the most serving self-image they can project as a vegan educator according to the setting and student group.
3. Become familiar with relevant professional ethics as key prerequisites of professional public speaking conduct.
4. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of different teaching environments and room layouts.
5. Recognise the four basic approaches to learning.
6. Access guidance with regard to compiling and providing session notes and other hand-out resources.
7. Develop skills in the use of teaching aids and equipment
8. Learn the essential theories of effective teaching.
9. Practice the application of learnt teaching theories and develop related skills.
10. Receive advice, and develop skills, with regard to the management of audience disruptors.
11. Discover ways that student learning can be evaluated
12. Identify appropriate and inappropriate strategies of persuasion, when public speaking.
13. Learn effective approaches to delivering vegan education to mixed students from vastly different knowledge bases and academic abilities.
Objectives
By the end of the Speaking of Veganism seminars, students should be able to:
1. Identify their own professional scope.
2. Describe the image that would best serve them as a vegan educator when speaking to three contrasting student groups.
3. List 10 standard professional ethics of public speaking.
4. Describe the environments and room layouts best suited to three contrasting student groups, when providing vegan education.
5. Name and describe the four basic approaches to learning.
6. Discuss the most effective layout for session notes according to their audience and the aspect of veganism being taught.
7. Demonstrate the correct use of three different teaching aids and/or equipment.
8. Perform a twenty-minute teaching demonstration, whereby a minimum of five effective teaching strategies are demonstrated.
9. Demonstrate the effective delivery of a twenty minute educational lesson on veganism
designed for non-vegan students.
10. Discuss two ways to best manage audience disruptors.
11. Identify at least two ways that student learning can be evaluated.
12. Identify six appropriate and inappropriate strategies of persuasion, when public speaking.
