What if you had a teaching tool to:

Engage students

Build Higher Order Thinking skills

Connect learning to life

Impact emotions to deepen learning

Break down barriers ????

Meet the team of adjunct

faculty who can deliver those

tools-

Tisha

Dancer

Moni

Ben

You do!

Equine Assisted Learning

incorporates horses experientially for growth and learning.

It is a collaborative effort between an educator and a horse professional

working with students and horses to address learning goals

.

What is EAL?

The best thing

for the inside

of a [person]

Is the outside

of a horse.WW Will Rogers

Why EAL?

Socratic Method:

teacher imparts no information,

Instead, asks questions

the pupil eventually comes to the desired knowledge.

The teacher takes a “pose” of ignorance

How does it work?

Not directive teaching about horses/horsemanship

The art of asking questions

Socratic method

Focus on processThe horse task is never the goal – the focus is

the process

Solution - Oriented

Getting to know each other

Introducing the task

To everyone

Ready – Get set -- GO

Debrief - Discuss It’s not about the

task or the horses ----

It’s about how it

connects with YOUR life

“The unique experience with the horses will be something that I will always remember. It has given me things to think about that will help me be a better teacher.”“

Teaching of Literacy F07

Set up task

Knock down task

Figure out How we can work together to accomplish the task….

Choose your tools

Consult with others Try something

Debrief

Discuss