It was an experiential lesson for my entrepreneurial leadership class, and I'm going to try to apply it to the college application process.
Funded by USAID, and supported by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, George Washington University and Knowledge for Health, it hits all the buzzwords of the global health and development zeitgeist: open access, diplomacy, scaling up, multidisciplinary, local solutions, experiential knowledge, lessons learned, and of course -- game changer.
Some include an experiential learning component poker lessons, say, or a tour of a scotch distillery.
The nutrition component consisted of six weekly 30-minute experiential, age-appropriate classroom lessons, including healthful-eating food games, taste-testing foods, whole-grain bread baking, information on portion sizes, and food demonstrations.
While it does have a national art museum, a castle and an aquarium, really discovering this city is a lesson in experiential travel.
Teaching students how money, careers and business ownership work through experiential, hands-on learning are lessons that last a lifetime and leave students more knowledgeable and confident to take on the many challenges and opportunities they will face as adults.
Emphasis was put on the critical lessons based on experiential learning of the project partners.
Terra Rose Ganem is seeding organic living laboratories in elementary schools all over the U.S. Beginning in Arizona, her Grow Organic Kids team is creating an experiential education curriculum to augment lesson plans and is easy and fun for children to get seeding and sowing.
The Spotivate acquisition is the first big deal under Kim's leadership, but seems like a strong fit and a good way to expand into experiential goods like summer camps, ballet lessons, etc.
We addressed literacy needs by simplifying complex concepts (e.g., a picture-based food guide), minimizing didactic instruction, engaging subjects in activities that reinforced key concepts over time (e.g., "foods bingo"), and modeling and experiential teaching methods (e.g., cooking lessons with participant involvement and eating healthy meals at the sessions).
