Test 4: HI EDU/LAD

Question 1

What are the scientific method steps and their application?

Answer 1

Observation: area of interest, notice something, form a question
Background: Collect information to help answer the question
Hypothesis: formulate a clear concise possible answer to the question; a positively stated conclusion to test through research
Experimentation: Gathering and testing of data to prove hypothesis
Conclusion: Result of experimentation/research – prove hypothesis or not

Question 2

What are the types of research?

Answer 2

Historical, descriptive, causal-comparative, experimental and introspective
Qualitative or quantitative
Variety of Tools: observations, questionnaires, interviews, research

Question 3

How would you take an everyday event and create a research focus that could be carried out successfully? Take the problem or question through the research process.

Answer 3

Topic: clearly identify the issue
Problem: state it as a question
Hypothesis: develop a possible answer to the question
Formulate the Framework: a base of knowledge from which the topic can expand
Research Method: choose a method such as case study, experimentation, comparing, certifying, observations
Interpret the data: what were the results? Did they agree with the hypothesis? Is more research needed?

Question 4

Discuss an example of using research for an everyday event

Answer 4

2nd Sunday Service
Observation (Topic, Problem)
-On a number of occasions, the Sunday morning service is at max capacity

Background
-Collect info: detail of center happenings, attendance numbers, youth program numbers
-Talk to the board, survey congregants
-Talk to other ministers that have grown to see what they’ve done at their centers

Hypothesis
-Adding a second morning service would serve the community
-Experimentation
-Survey congregants for desire for another service
-Determine how it would impact costs, staffing, youth programs, pracs, others
-Talk to other communities that have done it for + & -
-Vision on idea of second service
-Hold Q & A sessions with congregants to discuss possibility

Conclusion
Arrive at conclusion based on experimentation to move forward
OR determine that second service is not the answer, form new hypothesis

Question 5

List three ways you would use Research Methodology concepts course in your ministry

Answer 5

Addressing everyday issues like adding a second service, adding programs or enhancing existing ones.

Researching ideas for talks, articles, books, curriculum and workshops

Combining research with spiritual practice (visioning, meditation, prayer) for added impact

Question 6

List three ways you would use Research Methodology concepts course in your personal life

Answer 6

Researching news and contemporary applications for my own understanding

Deeply understanding an informed decision-making process

Clarity of difference between informed researched decision and opinion

Question 7

What is your online ministerial philosophy?

Answer 7

I believe in
-connected community (online and in person)
-deeply engaged transformative learning (online and in person)
-a fully web-connected ministry to bring it all together.
They are necessary to create a new kind of community that is global, robust and real.

Question 8

How do you create a connected online community?

Answer 8

Online Community must be Intentional
-Icebreakers & Check-ins
-Open “teacher-free” forums & breakout discussions
-Coming in with the same consciousness as a “real world” class
-Real online community isn’t going to build itself – it’s the responsibility of the teacher

Don’t make perfect the enemy of the good
-Physical classes are the gold standard, but not always available
-Would rather students get some exposure to principles and community than none at all
-Including synchronous with asynchronous learning when possible

Question 9

How do you lead and support transformative learning in the classroom?

Answer 9

Overcoming a Disorienting Dilemma
-People all over the world = lots of different ways to look at events, ideas & beliefs
-Internal reflection & Personal growth to overcome such dilemmas
-Consciously redesigning personal beliefs: ultimate goal of transformative learning

Building in Opportunities for Reflection = Meaning Making
-Seek out questions for dialogue that are open-ended and self-reflective
-Separate “Reflections” forum/thread that encourages students to write out & explore their feelings
-Breakout groups
-Assignments focused more on personal growth and self-reflection than on specific information

Question 10

What are two ways to build an internet connected ministry?

Answer 10

Model: Film everything and give it away (Asheville)
-Talks and presentations online
-Also classes and workshops, for free
-Drives traffic and attention to the web site
-Puts focus on teaching, not center or one community – expands community world wide
-Get the most out of every talk, meditation, prayer

Model: Make it Easy
-Enabling text donations – make it easy to give
-Posting talks on Facebook – make it easy to find
-Intuitive website formats – make everything easy
-Aimed at millennials, but also for the non-tech savvy

Question 11

What are three ways you would use connecting virtual communities in your life?

Answer 11

Uplevel my social media experience

Understand how to help myself and others have transformative learning experiences, both in person and online.

Recognize how sharing materials raises everyone up (in life and in the centers)

Question 12

What are three ways you would use connecting virtual communities in your ministry?

Answer 12

Uplevel my social media experience
Understand how to help myself and others have transformative learning experiences, both in person and online.
Recognize how sharing materials raises everyone up (in life and in the centers)

Question 13

What is the first C of effective virtual spiritual community?

Answer 13

Container
Container for consciousness
Set the intention, the outcome, the nature of the experience.
Specifics of confidentiality, support, interaction

Question 14

What’s andragogy?

Answer 14

Adult education

Question 15

What is the second C of effective virtual spiritual community?

Answer 15

Collaboration

Examples: Trello, slack, mindjet/mind maping

motivation and engagement of adding value
Promoting Collaborative Learning, pp. 157-168
Section heads are below. I see the value of interaction.
Formulating shared goals for learning
Negotiating guidelines
Posting introductions and learning experiences
Encouraging comment on introductions
Forming teams and posting guidelines for their performance
Problems, interests and experiences as springboards for learning
Encouraging a search for real-life examples
Developing assignments related to real-life situations
Dialogue as inquiry
Encouraging expansive questioning
Sharing responsibility for facilitation
Promoting feedback
Intergroup and other forms of collaboration
Intergroup collaboration
Resource sharing
Collaborative writing
Other forms of collaboration

Reading: Janet Salmons: Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn:

Chapter 1: What is Collaboration and Why is It Important? pp 5-8 print version, locations 266-294 ebook version
Teams can rely on collaborative or individual efforts to accomplish shared goals
Collaboration involves shared goals pursued with a specific process
Integrative effort
acquire
New insights
New skills
Generate innovative ideas
Develop new applications for best practices
Accomplish what could not be done individually
Constructing knowledge, negotiating meanings, and /or solving problems through mutual engagement of two or more learners in a coordinated effort
WHAT IS COLLABORATIVE LEARNING?

The following form the basis for CL:

–Both facilitators and learners become active participants in the educational process.

–The hierarchy between facilitators and learners is eliminated.

–A sense of community is created.

–Knowledge is created, not transferred.

–Knowledge is considered to be located in the community rather than in the individual (Whipple 1987).
To apply adult learning theory, there are a few steps that should be loosely followed, including:
Analyzing learning with the theory in mind to create a learning process and overall framework for training.
Foster collaboration within the learning process, which gives an opportunity for adult learners to benefit from each others’ life experiences.
Create a self-directed learning experience where the learners are able to control when, where, and how their learning is conducted. New technologies have made this self-directed learning much easier through e-learning.
Examples should be derived from real-world cases. It allows the trainee to see the application of what they are learning.
Allow learners to problem solve and figure out solutions on their own. It fosters creativity and critical thinking on a deeper level.

Question 16

What is the third C of effective virtual spiritual community?

Answer 16

Constructivism
Social Constructivism (class 2)
-Building on initial knowledge
-Making meaning from existing knowledge
-Using social connections to do this together
-Community of inquiry model
Presence: teaching; social; cognitive
Good teachers lead and support engagement, engagement happens

learning by creating meaning from experience
interactive
construct knowledge based on own experiences
meaning through interacting with problem or concept
active role in learning engaging, motivating
questions about real world problems help them build knowledge from their own experiences
Role playing, debating, cooperative learning groups, real-world activities, group projects
Recent theories in educational circles that attempt to bridge this gap, such as constructivism and active learning, posit that learners actively create knowledge and meaning through experimentation, exploration, and the manipulation and testing of ideas in reality. Interaction and feedback from others assist in determining the accuracy and application of ideas.
Palloff, Rena M.; Pratt, Keith. Building Online Learning Communities (p. 45). Wiley. Kindle Edition.

Question 17

What’s Bloom’s Taxonomy and why is this relevant to spiritual communities

Answer 17

Behaviors observed in learning and learning effectiveness, now the six aspects of cognition.

Remember (lowest)
Understand
Apply
Analyze
Evaluate
Create (highest)

Transformative learning is the goal, learning that changes our thinking and behavior.

Question 18

What are the four types of knowledge

Answer 18

Facts
Concepts
Procedure
Metacognitivee

Question 19

What is your vision for your leadership as a minister?

Answer 19

I want to be aware of the distinction between what I want to do to please and impress others, and what I want to create with my current identity.

My ministry vision is made up of intention, strategy, and presence.
My intention is high. It Bodhisattvan, Christlike. It is the desire, the aspiration, the mission of
“one who forestalls enlightenment until all beings are free from suffering.”

My strategy is religious science as codified and taught by Ernest Holmes and Centers for
Spiritual Living (CSL). This strategy is holistic, aligned to wellness, and self-actualized. I know this is my teaching because it folded into my life naturally, arriving at the perfect time and place for me to be willing and able to receive it.

My presence is that of a CSL practitioner and minister. I first heard of this when I asked my
practitioner exam panel for feedback on the interviews and prayers just completed with them.
The leader, an experienced senior minister, said “You walked in the door more a practitioner
than anyone I’ve ever seen.” I knew and felt what they were talking about as it was said. It is a state of grace grown by inner work but requiring only acceptance of what I am.

Question 20

What is your vision for your leadership as a community builder?

Answer 20

The viable, vibrant community I work with others to deliver may be in any of many forms that
produce a singular and distinctive experience of connection, safety, and growth. A light ahead
on a dark night of travel, a place of rest and energizing connection. A place to be fed and feed others, a safe place where one can be whoever they are, relax, rest, recover, repair, and grow stronger. Home. A light, warm, friendly city supporting and sustaining travelers on their
journey. A gathering of friendly faces in celebration and gratitude. A place of inspiration and
reconnection to intention, a place of real conversations with others for enjoyment and mutual
support, a place of companions in growth, challenge, and crisis. A safe and nurturing place
where people are supported in finding answers already present within them. I am both a
traveler and a leader in this city. I lead by listening and serving.

Question 21

What is your vision for your leadership?

Answer 21

I am a catalyst on a great team of committed servant leaders. I am a meditation bell, calling
myself and others to teaching and practice and service. I use my gifts of organizing and bridging and communicating and energy, allowing god to work through me to reflect vision, values, and plan into all the places, experiences, and relationships in our community. I represent loving truth in professional service to individuals and community. I am consistent, aligned, congruent, and focused on core values and fundamental ethics.

Question 22

What are the six steps of claiming your noble purpose and what is your content for each?

Answer 22

Initiation (universe unfolding as it should, dandelion seed)
Vision (bodhisattva path)
Claiming (curiosity. Da Vinci)
Celebrating (see and say what’s beautiful, the child pointing)
Letting Go (I cut the mustard)
Noble Purpose (real conversations evolve)

Question 23

What are the aspects of research that differ between disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies?

Answer 23

1. BODY of knowledge vs. expanding literature
2. investigation METHODS AND THEORIES vs. adding knowledge integrated with other disciplines
3. NEWNESS in domain vs. new comprehensive understanding and meanings
4. NEW KNOWLEDGE in domain vs. new interdisciplinary lines of inquiry
5. ONE COMMUNITY of experts vs. expanding and forming community of experts
6. SELF CONTAINED and self-domain focused vs drawing on multiple disciplines and not reliant on one
7. Train future EXPERTS in their domain vs. expanding expertise into interdisciplinary degrees