May 2010Sibiu

Worthwhile or a waste of 2 weeks?

Izolda MarcinonienėLithuanian Hydrometeorological Service

Metaxia KonstantaraHellenic National Meteorological Service

Eumetcal invested in 4 participants

Eumetcal invested in 4 participants

Many of the lecturers are here today

Many of the lecturers are here today

Before the course

Our hopes• Become more competent trainers• Understand pedagogy and psychology• Learn to engage the audience• Improve presentation and PowerPoint skills • Assessment and evaluation skills• Networking

During the course

What we learned

How we learned

From simple to tricky

Discussions - no silent questions Group projects

Video: good and bad examples

Body language, juggles, games

Online sessions

Individual presentations

Blogs, forums, wikis

We made a lot of practice

Friendly atmosphere: from the first step to the last...

Thanks to the Hosts

We all participated in group projects Competencies for Trainers Advanced PowerPoint Skills Moodle Learning

Management System Capture a Session for Online

Training Preparing a Meteorological

Case Study

and gave presentations

Our Feelings

Before the course

Uncertainty Uncertainty

Stress

Interest

Worry

Anxiety

Embarrassment

Curiosity

Expectation

Hope

CuriosityCuriosity

Fun

Challenge

Friendliness

Creativity

Interest

Satisfaction

Expectation

CollectivityInspiration

During the course

After the course

Emotions help to create memories

After the course

We implemented our action plans

Training our colleaguesUpdating PowerPointsVisual design Promoting Eumetcal courses Continued learning Moodle site still active PowerPoint group formed

Special thanks to …

WMO - Jeff Wilson and Mustafa Adiguzel

EUMETCAL - Vesa Nietosvaara

NMA of ROMANIA – Aurora Bell and Romanian colleagues

INSTRUCTORS - Ian Bell, Patrick Parrish, Roger Deslandes, Luciane Veeck

All colleagues

Conclusions

The course was a great success High quality education Fine co-operation between trainers

and trainees Very good organization and

hospitality Pedagogy is important A good investment by us and

Eumetcal

Recommendations

Eumetcal should invest in future courses (but next not until 2014)Eumetcal should develop training for our trainersAll Eumetcal courses should have a solid pedagogical basis

How can we make this happen?