How to conduct a successful workshop?

Workshop is one of the best education formats, but most of them don’t seem like one. They lack question-answers and discussions. They are quiet, passive worse than lectures. Well, in reality, for any kind of workshop; like African textiles workshops or dance workshops for schools, it consists of a limited group of people, wherein all of them participates equally, and there is interaction between them, problem solving and learning new things. In order to conduct a successful workshop, you need to keep few points in mind. Let us have a look at some of the useful tips. Here we go...
Pre- workshop tasks:

• Define the objective:

The first thing you should do is to determine your goal. Be specific about your objectives. Have a clear vision in your mind about what you want to conduct a workshop and also the reason behind that and think why it is important. Perform this step wisely because all the following steps will depend upon this.

• Determine your audience:

If you know the audience, their age, qualification, experience and their knowledge about the topic on which you are conducting workshop, you will be able to prepare well for the for it.

• Determine the teaching method:

Now that you have defined the objective and determined your audience, you need to find out the teaching method. Try out various methods and find out which is the best method according the type of audience.

Tasks during workshop:

• Greet the participants and introduce yourself.
• Introduce the participants with each other.
• Inform them what’s in for the day.
• Encourage them to interact and participate in discussion.
• Create an atmosphere wherein participates can make themselves comfortable.
• Give them chance to practice whatever you teach them, then and there.
• End it up with a summary and a motivational quote and note.

Post-workshop task:

• Remain available for few minutes for the participants who want to meet you in personal.
• Take feedback.

No matter whether the workshops in schools or colleges, take the above points into consideration and you are sure to conduct an amazing workshop. Good luck!

Importance of extracurricular activities for students

The educational system in some countries is strictly the curriculum based that gives nothing more than the bookish knowledge. They think that few books and learning material are enough for the overall development of students. Well, in reality it is insufficient and all it does it restricts students’ imagination power. The educational system of a country should consist of the basic curriculum as well as the extracurricular activities. Workshops for schools will help students get involved into social and cultural activities. Let us discuss some of the benefits of the extracurricular activities for children. Here we go...

• Learning new things:

Primary school workshops are very important for students at an early stage. The students involved into the extracurricular activities get a chance to learn new things. They come across various new people, new activities and learn to face the real life scenarios and that how to deal with them.

• Building social network:

Once the students go out from the world of books, they have to interact with different kinds of people. They learn to socialize and communicate with them.

• Motivation:

Once they get appreciation for their participation or achievement, they get encouraged to go into deep in that field. This is the way they can discover what are they good at and what are their hobbies.

• Incorporate universal values:
• Hard work: If their fellow mates are better than them, they strive to work hard and get better results.
• Sportsmanship: Working in group will also incorporate the values like sportsmanship into them.
• Team work: They learn to work together as a team
• Increases the educational value

A brilliant student who is already good in studies, and also involved into the extracurricular activities has an added benefit of winning the competitions.  

• Keep them away from unethical things:

The last but not the least, one of the most important advantages of extracurricular activities is that if a student is engaged into those activities, there are least chances he will be into the unethical things.

I hope you have understood the above mentioned benefits of the extracurricular activities. So, it advisable to make students attend the workshops like Chinese dances workshop, Indian drumming workshop and Chinese music workshop, to name a few.