CONTENT

 INTRODUCTION
 DEFINITION
 ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF WORKSHOP
 OBJECTIVES
 PURPOSES
 PRINCIPLES
 PLANNING FOR A WORKSHOP
 STAGES IN CONDUCTING WORKSHOP
 FOLLOW-UP
 ADVANTAGES
 LIMITATION
 MOST VALUABLE PARTS OF THE WORKSHOP
 SUMMARY
 CONCLUSION
 WORKSHOP

INTRODUCTION

The workshop is the name given a novel(refreshing new) experiment in education. It consists of
series of meetings, usually four or more, emphasis of individual work within the group with the
help of resource personnel. The workshops are organized to develop the psychomotor aspects
(skill development) of the learner regarding the practices of new innovations in the area of
education.

DEFINITION

 The workshop is a meeting of people to work together in a small group upon problems
which are of concern to them in their own sphere of activity and to find suitable situation.
(L. RAMACHANDRAN)

 Workshop is defined as assembled group of 10 to 25 persons who share a common interest

or problem. They meet together to improve their individual skills of a subject through
intensive study, research and discussion.
(BASAVANTAPPA)
 A systematic approach to deal in detail about educational problems by means of a short
meeting.
(NEERAJA)

ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF WORKSHOP

 Complete active involvement by the participants.

 The whole point of attention is to work and learn from practical experiences.
 Participants may have to work as reporters or a leader.
 Workshop offers each member an opportunity to make his or her own contribution.

OBJECTIVES:- There are three types of objectives.

 a) COGNITIVE OBJECTIVE
The workshop is organized to:-
 Solve the problems of teaching profession.
 Provide the philosophical and sociological background for instructional and
teaching situation.
 Develop an understanding regarding the use of a theme and problem.
 Identify the educational objectives in the present context.
b) PSYCHOMOTOR OBJECTIVE(SKILL DEVELOPMENT)
 To develop the profiency for panning and organizing teaching and instructional
activities.
 To develop skills to perform a task independently.
 To determine the use of teaching strategies effectively.
 To train the person for using different approaches of teaching.
c) AFFECTIVE OBJECTIVE(ATTITUDE DEVELOPMENT)
 To develop professional relationship between participants ad resource person.
 To permit the extensive study of a situation its background and its social and
philosophical implication.
 To take necessary steps to solve the problem of education.

PURPOSES

To put teachers in situation that will break down the barriers between them to facilitate
communication.
 To give opportunity for personal growth through accepting and working towards a goal
held in common with others.
 To give teachers an opportunity to work on the problems those are direct, current and
concern to them.
 Teachers will learn new methods and techniques.
 To place teachers in a position of responsibility for their own learning.
 To put the teacher in a situation where they will evaluate their own efforts.
 To give the teachers an opportunity to improve their own morale.

PRINCIPLES

 Workshop should focus on the current issues in the profession to be discussed.

 It should be conducted with full cooperation within organizers.
 Giving the participants an active role will make teaching more effective.
 Every individual has a contribution to make the common goal.
PLANNING FOR A WORKSHOP

SELECTION OF A OPEN A FILE SELECTION OF SELECTION OF

THEME RESOURCE PERS0N PARTICIPANTS

SELECTION FOR SELECTION FOR SELECTION FOR

COMMITTEES SELECTION FOR
LANGUAGE PLACE
DATE

SELECTION FOR PREPARING

BUDGET FOR PAMPHLET\BOOKLET
PARTICIPANTS
WORKSHOP

i. SELECTION OF A THEME
 The theme must be based on preexisting problem for which we should identify the
solution.
 It must be directed towards the participants to motivate their interests.

ii. OPEN A FILE

A suitable system might be a loose leaf file with the following subdivisions:-
 Budgets
 Workshop site
 Selection of participants
 Documentation
 Equipment checklist
 Publicity, press etc.
 Evaluation
iii. SELECTION OF RESOURCE PERSON
 The success of the workshop depends on the quality of the resource person
chosen; hence importance should be given while selecting the resource persons.
 They should provide theoretical and practical aspects.
iv. SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS
Criteria for selecting the participants:-
 Type of participants: HOMOGENITY
 Select the participants who will benefit by the theme of workshop and objective.
 Number of participants: as many as 35 participants can be handled by one
organizer.
 Select the participants 60days before the workshop.
 Fourth five days before confirm the workshop.
 Voluntary participation.
v. SELECTION OF DATES FOR WORKSHOP
  Date of workshop should not concide with public or religious days, sport events.
 Ensure that at least one working day preceeds the opening of the workshop.
 It should be planned prior to prevent the inconvenience in conducting workshop.
vi. SELECTION OF PLACE FOR WORKSHOP
 Select the place where the participants can stay and attend total activities of
workshop on a full time basis.
 The place should be quite, adequate seating, well ventilated, good lighting etc.
 Book the room for conduction workshop and accommodation 6 months prior to the
day.
 All confirmation should be in writing form.
vii. SELECTION OF LANGUAGE
 The workshop is usually carried out in national language or preferred official
language.
viii. SELECTION OF COMMITTEES
For organizing a workshop, various committees must be formulated such as:-

1) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 Select the programme.
 Select the days, duties, venue of workshop.
 Plan for budgeting.
2) ASSISTANT ORGANIZERS COMMITTEE:
 Select from another school or faculty.
 Select each assistant organizer for every 10 participants.
 Finding answers to questions put forward by the participants.
3) SPONSOR COMMITTEE:
 Share the expenses of workshop.
 Provide place for workshop, sound media, food and snacks, printing material etc.
4) VOLUNTER COMMITTEE:
 Receiving the guests.
 Orienting the place to the participants and experts.
 Seating arrangements.
 Formulate committees for registration, transportation, stage, food etc.
ix. BUDGET FOR WORKSHOP
 Organizers should plan the budget, according to their plan of conducting workshop.
x. INVITATION OF THE PARTICIPANTS
The main points to be covered in the invitation are:-
 Aim of the workshop
 Theme of workshop
 Working method of workshop

xi. PREPARING WORKSHOP PAMPHLET OR BOOKLET

 Print pamphlet\booklets- chart specifying the:-
 Aim of the workshop.
 Registration fees for workshop.
 Activities of programme.
 Facilities arranged for the workshop.

STAGES IN CONDUCTING WORKSHOP

Generally workshops are organized for 3 to 10 days. It depends on the nature of task assigned to
the workshop. It is organized in four stages:-

I. FIRST STAGE
 REGISTRATION: Participants will pay their fees and register names in the
registration. After that they will be given an identity card and workshop content.
 INAGURATION: In this all committee members, participants and resource will be
gathered along with chief guest. Chief guest will start the function with lighting
the lamp and give his speech.
 PRELIMINARY INTRODUCTORY SESSION: Organizers will give a brief introduction
about theme and objectives of workshop.
 PRETEST: Pretest will be given to the participants based on the theme of the
workshop and it will evaluated.
 BREAK: Tea break and lunch break in between sessions.
 PRESENTATION OF THE THEME OF PROVIDING AWARNESS: The resource persons
are invited to provide awareness and understanding of the topic.
II. SECOND STAGE
 FORMATION OF GROUPS: The total group is divided into small groups.
 ASSIGNMENT SESSION AD PRACTICAL EXERCISES: Groups will be given assignment
related to the theme.
 GUIDANCE AND SUPERVISION: A resource person assigned to provide guidance to
the work to perform. Along with guidance the expert also supervises each
participant’s work.
 CLARIFYING SESSION: The participant while doing his work, any difficulty or doubt
can be clarified with the help of an expert.
 GROUP DISCUSSION: If group members have completed their assignment at the
end they meet together and discusses their task within their group.
 PREVIEW OF THE NEXT DAY: At the end of the each day all group members will
join together and discuss the programmes of the next day.
III. THIRD STAGE
 PRESENTATION: At this phase all groups meet at one place and present their
report of work done at the second stage.
 EVALUATION/ POSTTEST: It will be given to the participants based on the content
which was given by experts during presentation phase and that will be evaluated.
  OPEN SUGGESTIONS: The participants are given the opportunity to comment and
give suggestions for further improvement.
 EXPERT SUGGESTIONS: The experts also provide suggestions on different aspects
of the reports.
 VALIDATION: It is end phase of the workshop. I n this organizer will conclude the
workshop after providing certificates to participants and experts. Chief organizer
or assistant organizer will give a vote of thanks and programme will end with
national anthem.
IV. FOURTH STAGE
In fourth stage organizers as well as participants have to do their part of work.

ORGANIZER PART
 LETTER OF THANKS: Within 15 days after the programme it is time to thank
everybody who has helped. Inform theme in the letter that they will shortly be
sent the report on the workshop.
 REPORT ON THE WORKSHOP: Report regarding the workshop must be printed and
sent to the assistant organizer and other persons who helped to the successful
conduct of the workshop. The report will contain the followings:-
 Aim of workshop
 A description of the progress of the workshop
 Selected samples of the work done in groups.
 List of documents used during the workshop.
 Evaluation
 List of participants

PART OF PARTICIPANTS: They should get ready for the follow-up programme that will be
conducted as a long term evaluation process.

FOLLOW UP

 Effectiveness of workshop is ascertained by an objective follow up.

 The trainees are asked to continue their task and examine its work ability and inability in
their working set up.
 The participants are invited to meet again and present their feedback regarding
applicability of the topic or new practices.
 During follow up meeting participants will also be assessed to which level they reached
their objectives by using a questionnaire and interview.
 ADVANTAGES

 It is a technique which can be effectively used for developing, understanding and

profiency for the approaches and practices in education.
 Used for developing and improving professional efficiency e.g. nursing, medical etc.
 Teaching profiencies can be developed by the workshop technique for nursing in-
service teachers.
 Provide the opportunity and situation to develop the individual capacities of a
teacher.
 Develop the feelings of cooperation and group work.
 Provides the situation to study the vocational problems.
 The new practices and innovations are introduced to in-service teachers.

LIMITATION

 The in-service teacher may not take interest to understand and use the new practices in
their classrooms.
 The workshop cannot be organized to large number of groups, so the large number of
persons cannot be trained.
 The teacher may not take interst in practical work or to do something in productive form.
 The effectiveness of the workshop technique depends on the follow-up programme.
Generally follow up programmes are not organized in workshop technique.

MOST VALUEABLE PARTS OF THE WORKSHOP

 Interaction of nursing leaders.

 Valid and useful subjects.
 Communication among the participants.
 Group discussion
 Case studies
 Being in the same room with expert and strong nursing leaders.

SUMMARY

From today’s discussion we came to know to the introduction, definition, essential features,
objectives, purposes, principles, planning for a workshop, stages of conducting workshop,
advantages, limitation of work shop and most valuable parts of the workshop.

CONCLUSION

Workshop is meeting at which a group of people engage in intensive discussion and activity on
a particular subject or project.
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