Learn Faster By Practicing Teaching

Learning Outcome

• Practice Teaching
• Learn that Teaching is a great way of Learning

Session Outline

• 5 min connect: What is Learning? How do you learn best?
• 10 min concept: Use a picture of the “Learning Pyramid”
• 30 min concrete: Participants get time to prepare a topic and teach it back.
• 10 min conclusions: Was this valuable? How can we continue this?

Connect:

Two topics I would recommend to connect to:

1. What does “I learn something” mean?
   What is different afterwards?

2. How do you learn best?

Concept: Learning

Pre-requisite: Search for alternatives to this image:
Learning Pyramid Search
Tips: There are lots of different versions of this model.
Find one that suits your teaching style and that you can share in your organisation (documentation).

1. Show this model (or your alternative)
   

2. Explain it :)
   Make the teaching as interactive as possible, by asking questions around the model (or your favourite teaching style)
3. Advanced (if time): Do you practice in a safe environment? (kata?) or in Production code? How?

Concrete: Teach Back

Participants get time to prepare a topic and teach it back.

1. 2min: Collect Topics (or prepare them: KISS; YAGNI; SRP, RestAssured, RuleOf3, CAP Theory, OpenTelemetry, …Whatever is buzzing in the team)
2. 1min: Everyone grabs 1 topic
3. 15min: Everyone prepares
4. 1.5min: Everyone does short teach back
5. Group gives feedback (Fist of 5)

Fist of 5: Everyone uses their hand to rate the teach back.
1=Disaster, 5=Perfect, all the others (2,3,4) are somewhere between disaster and perfect.
Everyone should be prepared to answer the followup question: “What could the teacher improve to make it perfect (=5) for you?”

Tips For Teach Back:

• Find and use a picture
• Find code samples and use them

Explain

• the “What”
• “What for?”
• “Why is this important?”
• “What are alternatives?”

Conclusions:

Collect Round Robin:

• Your Aha! on a Meta Level
• What should we do with this?