Develop Me Workshop

“Develop Me” specialises in bringing the highest quality experiential learning training into the secondary school classroom. Through experiential learning we currently focus on two critical areas for today’s students: project management and understanding effective teamwork.

As part of their Activity Week all Transition Year students were involved in a workshop titled “ Develop Me”.The main focus of this workshop is Experiential learning , which is the process of learning through experience, and is more specifically defined as “learning through reflection on doing”.

The workshop was led by a Team of three , Ger, Eoin and Tom. As leader of the team Ger emphasises that:

“We don’t come in and present to your students or give them a talk or lecture. Our workshops start with the students being placed in engaging, interactive, fun scenarios. The students are then asked to work together to come up with a way to approach the situation that will lead to a successful outcome.After they have tackled our scenarios, the real strength of our sessions comes out in our powerful debriefs, where students reflect on how they did, identify how they could have done better and learn best practices for either project management or operating as an effective team, depending on the programme they’ve just done.”