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Six Day Workshop

The first three days of the Six-day Workshop of the Graduate Diploma in Childbirth Education are over. The group of students (15 in all) come from all over: every State in Australia except Tasmania and we have three overseas students: one each from Wales and Scotland, and one from Saudi Arabia.

There are all sorts of skills and talents in the group and for such a diverse bunch they are working very well together. I am sure they are looking forward to a break over the weekend before we tackle the next three days, starting Monday.

The participants from Saudi was particularly impressed by the Thursday program. She is a clinical educator in her hospital and was required to take a year-long course in adult education as part of that role. She said she learned more during that one day with us than she had learned in the year of studies she had undertaken before!

The week starts with considering the big picture of prenatal education (overall aims, the role of the educator, ethics, legalities etc), then moves on through the practicalities of working with adults and presentation methods, gradually becoming more specific as the program builds on what has gone before. By the end of the week, the students will be making their own presentations, utilising all the skills they have developed during the entire week.

These programs are a challenge for everyone - for us (Cassandra, the other presenters and myself) as presenters/tutors, our challenge is to get everything in, and for the group members it is to absorb a lot in a small space of time. Watching the students grasp the various principles of working with adults and observing them applying them to the various tasks they are set during the week is not only interesting but very rewarding. I am looking forward to next week with great anticipation!

Posted by andrea at November 14, 2003 04:22 PM

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