1. Exchange and use of inspiring best practices
Workshop X-Honours Congrestival
Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, June

2. Program workshop
1) Start (2 min.) Albert Pilot (UU, Netherlands) 2) The best practice project (10 min.) Pierre van Eijl (UU, Nl) 3) Best practice ‘I-labs’ (10 min.) Ron Weerheijm (HR, Nl) 4) Best Practice ‘Summer School Holocaust Remembrance’ (10 min) Pieter Veenstra (Hanze, Nl) 5) Best Practice ‘Facilitator training for Saxion Top Talent Innovation Days’ (10 min.) Marike Lammers (Saxion, Nl) 6) Apply a best practice (individually and in dyads) (30 min.) 7) Plenary: reporting and discussion (30 min.) Hand-out: PPT copies en best practices

3. 2. The best practice project
Innovation in education is often a difficult process: ‘not invented here’ and not each innovation might be an improvement.
But ‘a good example tends to be followed’ and can be inspiring
Because a good example can function as a model in (re)designing a piece of education, inspire and speed up the process (Earl, 1984)
But, the ‘core’ of the good example (why and how it works) has to be clear (Bardach, 2011).
And remind: a good example is context sensitive.

4. The term best practice
A good example is also named a best practice, a good practice or even a contextual practice.
In this project we use a simple description: “a best practice is a piece of honours education that functions, in the opinion of the teacher involved, so well for the students that it may be an inspiring example for others.”

5. Developing a best practice often involves some ‘noble failures’

6. About the effects of best practices
Content and form of the best practice has to meet certain criteria (e.g. attention for product and process and authority of presentation/source)
Potential users have to count on support in their institute.
Best practices can lead to
+ a change in thinking: conformation of own view, expansion of vision and development of strategic thinking
+ a change in acting: superficial use, imitation and integration with adaptation to the local context
+ or: no effect at all. (Kelchtermans, Ballet, Peeters & Verckens, 2008)

7. Project activities
A format was developed for description (with information of the nature of the best practice and experiences)
Teachers were invited and often interviewed about their best practice. The result was a description conform the format
The first 17 best practices were published on the (Slack) website of the Honours Network in the Netherlands
A first analysis was carried out.

8. Circle of talent development and best practices (Van Eijl & Pilot, 2015)

9. Some examples of best practices in relation with the circle
Many of the best practices cover steps of the circle of talent development, especially step 4, meeting challenges, which is crucial in honours.
A best practice activity about brainstorming refers to both 4 (challenge), 5(community) and 8 (creativity).
A best practice about a closing session of a series of honours activities emphasizes step 9 about results but also 4 (challenge)

10. Presentation of three best practices
3) I-lab (Ron Weerheijm, Rotterdam UAS) Key words: challenge of authentic problem, multi-disciplinary and community 4) Summer School Holocaust Remembrance (Pieter Veenstra, Hanze UAS) Key words: Challenge of authentic problem, multi-disciplinary, 5) Facilitator training for Saxion Top Talent Innovation Days (Marike Lammers, Saxion UAS) Key words: challenge of personal development, community building

11. 4) Best practice: Summer School Holocaust Remembrance
Hanze UAS in cooperation with Memorial Centre Camp Westerbork and Windesheim UAS
Goal is personal and social development of participants through interaction between a diverse group of students

12. Theme is connecting past and present
Working together with Memorial Centre Camp Westerbork and Windesheim UAS
Mixed program with lectures, group project work, excursions (Bergen Belsen, Jewish Museum and Holocaust Memorial in Berlin,
Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and social events

13. 5) Best Practice: Facilitator Training for Saxion Top Talent Innovation Days by Marike Lammers Days

14. Top Talent Innovation Days
Setting: Interdisciplinary teams Mix of students and teachers Wicked problem 24 hrs. Training: How to facilitate Top Talent Innovation Days?

15. Facilitator Training for Innovation Days
Start getting acquainted Real experience (our of comfort zone, let it go 'wrong’) Reflect on process insights Community learning (power of the group) Flexibility in the program

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17. Facilitator training - Impression
Impressie facilitatortraining

18. Feedback after training
Real insight in interdisciplinary cooperation process Students learn from teachers and vice versa Everyone’s talent is (much better) used Teachers realize that learning is about giving space and sometimes let it go wrong. Training needs flexibility

19. 6) Apply a best practice in your own situation (individually and in dyads) (30 min.)
Use information of the best practices and translate it into your own situation (individually)
Discuss your ideas in a dyad or small group and “what do you need to continue working on it?”

21. 6) Plenary report and discussion
What kind of applications you think?
What are key elements for the use of best practices and what is your next step in this?
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