[#teaching + #facilitation #outcomes] ✨"If it isn’t colourful, it’s not fried rice!"✨Yesterday, I spent the evening cooking Nigerian Fried Rice at a virtual cook-along organised by Cambridge University Press & Assessment's Racial Equality and Ethnicity Balance Network (#REEBN!). It was a hoot - good fun, and super tasty (I was happy to report to my family and friends that I am still alive today and can, in fact, survive in the kitchen).
At the end of the session, those who managed to follow along were holding up their fried rice and #ChefStella said something that stayed with me:
✨"If it isn’t colourful, it’s not fried rice!"✨
I thought this was such a powerful example of a simple, effective way to measure if you ‘got it’ or not.
Sometimes outcomes of our lessons, training, workshops can be so complicated.
This was a nice reminder that a measure of success can be simple and clear.
For me, learning objectives aside, a personal measure I use to know whether my workshop or lesson was successful is when I see:
✨sparkly eyes - at least some of the time, by a majority🤩
✨a bit of laughter - at least once!
✨most importantly: "hubbub" - at least once
To me, "hubbub" is when all participants are so positively absorbed in the learning or activity that they forget I’m there.
If I have even 2-3 minutes of that in a workshop - I feel it went well. 👏
💬 #overtoyou: When facilitating and teaching, do you have any personal measures of a successful #lesson or #workshop? I'm curious and would love to know.
P.S. A big thanks to Chef Stella from Migrateful for being such an enthusiastic guide and sharing so many little tips along the way. And to Agnes Xia-Hu, Manoj Raveendranathan, Preeti Dhillon and all the colleagues from around the world who joined, whether you cheered on or cooked.
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🎋✨ #Crosscultural appreciation moment during the session:
I loved when Chef Stella was teaching us how to wash the rice, and Agnes Xia-Hu shared that the method was exactly the same as in Chinese culture. 🌾
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