Davis reached out to Mollie Stone, choral director and lecturer at the University of Chicago, and the two worked with Patty Cuyler of Village Harmony to a one-time workshop for students to learn about leadership by singing together.
We know that effective dissemination of evidence-based teaching practices requires more intensive training than a one-time workshop can offer (Sunal et al., 2001; Dancy and Henderson, 2010; Singer et al., 2012).
I have shared mindfulness with students in one-time workshops, two minutes of practice at the beginning of every class period, and intensive multi-day retreats involving long periods of silent practice.
Since this learning type enables organisers to teach many people at once, lectures at elementary schools and one-time workshops are often instructed in this form.
These training programs range from one-time workshops to more extensive training modules (Table 1).
Research evidence increasingly demonstrates that brief interventions (for example, one-time workshops) are not sufficient to change adult behavior with children (Winton 2008; Winton and McCollum 2008).
Research to date is clear that longitudinal (meeting a number of different times) and continuous PD is more effective than shorter, one-time workshops in terms of promoting conceptual change and effective practice (Rogers, 1995; Fiszer, 2004).
One-time workshops raise awareness of evidence-based practices, but faculty members are more likely to make significant changes in their teaching practices when supported by coaching and feedback.
While several initiatives have risen to the challenges of implementing the goals of Vision and Change across undergraduate life sciences education, they have often been limited by their short-term nature in the form of one-time workshops and institutes.
Collectively, this work suggests that one-time workshops raise awareness of evidence-based teaching strategies but are not sufficient for faculty to adopt and successfully use these strategies (National Research Council [NRC], 2012).
At one time, 100 "workshops," as the old industrial buildings were known, produced new steam engines and passenger cars, among other goods.
