At your mark, get set, evacuate… and reflect!

This is an invitation we extend to course directors to experience the emergency exercise for themselves and follow it up with a workshop in which an educational developer will debrief participants using an experiential learning framework. This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a large-scale emergency exercise while using a shared experience to explore how to use reflection for teaching and learning in the classroom.

Course directors interested in participating in this learning opportunity are invited to promptly contact Geneviève Maheux-Pelletier, educational developer, at gmp@yorku.ca. A pre-activity will be offered online to help participants prepare for the exercise (they will be briefed on what to expect and prompted to reflect on their own expectations). Course directors  wanting to participate must be available for the entire duration of the emergency exercise, taking place Wednesday October 25 from 8 am to 12 pm.  The date and time of the follow-up workshop will be determined based on registered participants’ availability.

The Subway Emergency Exercise as Reflective Learning

This workshop is designed as a collaborative space to share and discuss reflective learning practices and brainstorm about how to effectively prepare and debrief students participating in the subway emergency exercise and other simulations. After reviewing the reflective learning cycle, we will consider strategies and activities to help students critically examine their experience and use it as a springboard for deeper learning.

To register to the workshop, taking place October 12 (10 am to 12 pm), please follow this link: http://teachingcommonsforms.apps01.yorku.ca/forms/view.php?id=482265