Hi I am Umes Shrestha. I am a teacher and a teacher developer. I love designing and delivering workshops -- and help teachers become awesome :)
This podcast is my audio guff, teaching, learning related, ideally for teachers, teacher trainers, and educators.
Language: Nepali and English, mixed with a few Newari tone here and there.
Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
10 Things You Can Do to Make Your Workshop Experience Productive
1. Understand you real reasons for joining the workshop and check if they align with the workshop objectives.
2. Understand the modality of the workshop.
3. Try to get in touch with other participants.
4. Don’t go into a workshop without any preparation.
5. And go with an open mind, without judgment.
6. Try to ‘get out of your comfort zone’
7. Provide proper and concrete feedback to the facilitator
8. Stay in touch.
9. Request the trainer for a follow-up session.
10. Share the ideas & skills with someone else – a friend or a colleague.
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Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn (https://www.instagram.com/umesunlearn/)
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/ (https://www.instagram.com/umesunlearn/)
14 Aug 2021
15. Advice Suggestion Feedback
We love giving advice, suggestion, and feedback - that too unsolicited. As a teacher, I've made this mistake several times. And, as a teacher developer, I've done this during workshop sessions too.
We have done this mistake, I'm sure.
Experience is a great teacher and I've come up with my own "rule of thumb" regarding this complex issue of giving and receiving advice, suggestion, and feedback. Talking about this rule and sharing a few examples in this podcast.
9 Mar 2021
14. How learning happens - Part 1 (Summary/Review)
Note: Recorded in English + Nepali mixed language
This episode is for teachers who are trying to unravel the complex issue of learning and teaching. I will be recording a series of episodes summarizing and reviewing each chapters from the seminal book "How Learning Happens".
Book: How Learning Happens - Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice
Paul A. Kirschner and Carl Hendrick
Chapter 1: A novice is not a little expert
The takeaways are:
a. Beginners aren’t “little” experts; they know less and think differently than experts.
b. Children also aren’t small adults. They see the world very differently and therefore have to learn differently.
c. A teaching approach that works well with an expert will most probably not work well with a beginner and can even be detrimental to their learning.
d. Try to differentiate at an early stage.
e. The epistemology of the expert is not the proper pedagogy for the learner.
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Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn (https://www.instagram.com/umesunlearn/)
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/ (https://www.instagram.com/umesunlearn/)
24 Feb 2021
13. Unlearning the Learning Beliefs
The three learning myths I talked about in this episodes:
The Learning Pyramid
The Learning Styles
Knowledge is out there (in the internet)
Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn (https://www.instagram.com/umesunlearn/)
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com (//umes.shrestha@gmail.com)
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/)
Article Source:
https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2017/12/26/20-research-myths/ (https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2017/12/26/20-research-myths/)
27 Jan 2021
12. Creativity, Communication & Mistakes with Abha Dhital
This time I'm talking with Abha Dhital, who loves writing, doodling, branding, and storytelling.
Recording this episode was fun and reflective at the both time.
Give it a listen, okay.
Find Abha here:
https://abhadhital.wixsite.com/abhadhital/about
Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com (http://umes.shrestha@gmail.com/)
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/
10 Jan 2021
11. Inspire and Grow with Biliz Maharjan
This is my first episode in 2021 and I tried to have a guest in for the first time as well :)
My guest is Biliz Maharjan, an MBA/IT graduate working an Investment/IT Analyst in a Merchant Banking Company. For me, his writing captured my attention and I got hooked into it. In this almost an hour long conversation, we dive into a lot of stuffs on learning, writing, teaching, habits, and we also did an impromptu section on "5 things that made you a better learner" and "One favorite book, one favorite habit, and one favorite quote".
Hope you'll enjoy this conversation.
Find Biliz here:
https://www.bilizmaharjan.com/
Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com (http://umes.shrestha@gmail.com/)
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/
20 Dec 2020
10 My Take on the Significant Education Studies 2020
I recorded this episode after reading this "important" blog article posted on edutopia.org (Link: https://www.edutopia.org/article/10-most-significant-education-studies-2020).
I have added my own perspectives and a few opinions as well on these studies. And in doing so, I have cited some references of Robert Bjork (Input less, Output more), Angela Duckworth (Grit), Daniel Wellingham (Memory is the residue of thoughts), and John Sweller (We are our long term memory).
I've used both Nepali and English language, as my primary target of this podcast is Nepali teachers, educators, and learners.
5 Dec 2020
09 Challenges in Implementing Activities to Engage Students
In this episode, I share some of the ideas posted by teachers on how to solve the perennial problem teachers face: completing the course/syllabus. I also talk about how I used to label teachers as "lazy" and how wrong I was to do so.
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Book mentioned: Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
Our facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/teachersempoweringteachers
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Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com (http://umes.shrestha@gmail.com/)
2 Dec 2020
08 SCARF Model for Trainers
In this episode, I am sharing an extremely helpful tool/model for trainers, facilitators, and teachers. With this, they will be able to understand how to make any workshop situation "non-threatening" for the participants and how to create challenging yet empowering situations for the participants.
Major source:
David Rock - Your Brain at Work
SCARF: Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness
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Links:
Empowerment Academy
fb/eanepal
24 Nov 2020
07 What a difficult participant taught me
In this episode, I want to share my experience of dealing with a "difficult" participant. Eventually every facilitator or trainer (and even teachers) will face difficult and even disruptive participants in workshop sessions. And, here's my version of the situation and my learning.
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Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Insta: @umesunlearn
Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
20 Nov 2020
06 Making the Most out of Online Workshops
In this episode, I am sharing with you 10 ways you can make the most of out an online workshop. This one is from a participant's point of view and on how one can do to make the experience productive and effective.
Keep unlearning, keep growing.
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Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Insta: @umesunlearn
Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
8 Aug 2020
05 Just a Facilitator
Are you a teacher? Or, are you "just" a facilitator?
On this episode, I sort of rant about how many teachers get confused with their roles as teachers.
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Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Insta: @umesunlearn
Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
13 Jul 2020
04 Understanding by Design
In this episode, I am sharing the ideas I got by reading the book Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins. UbD, the concept is also known as backward designing, is first answering three essential questions to design the course, and sharing those to the students in the first or initial days of the course. This helps students know why they are taking the course and eventually helps them stay motivated and self-regulated.
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Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Insta: @umesunlearn
Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
4 Jul 2020
03 Desirable Difficulties
We know to learn we need to raise the difficulty level slightly. But what we might not know is if that difficulty is desirable or not desirable. Talking about this concept from Robert Bjork, hoping that it will be helpful for teachers, students, or any learners.
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Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Insta: @umesunlearn
Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
30 Jun 2020
02 Input less, Output more? What??
So what is learning in a true sense? I think I have found the answer... but I know there's more to it. However, this is a good starting place to dig in.
Learning how to Learn
Barbara Oakley
Robert Bjork
Retrieval Practice
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Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Insta: @umesunlearn
Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
29 Jun 2020
01 Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking
So, what does it require to be a critical thinker? Let's find out.
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Connect with me: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Insta: @umesunlearn
Also follow our workshops/sessions/updates here: Empowerment Academy (https://www.facebook.com/eanepal)
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