There’s a famous John Dewey quote that states, “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself”—my favorite quote due to our shared belief. Our lives are founded and influenced by our educational structure–from concrete content to the motivation necessary to our sense of self-efficacy.
Education and motivation are both elements useful to paths of success and prosperity. As CEO of Echoes of Excellence, my passion to motivation and educate audiences stems from my desire to contribute positive impact to lives with which I intersect.
Moreover, thinking beyond individuals and rather of society as a whole, motivation and education leads to a world understood and thus arguably transformed. EOE’s purpose is to be used as a vessel in this process, promoting learning and motivation minds for the purpose of tackling tenacity.
In order to accomplish the aforementioned, an educator must be able to grasp learners at varied and diverse levels of learning. As an instructor and facilitator of education, one must consider and acknowledge learners’ diverse backgrounds and intrinsic motivation.
Echoes of Excellence aims to learn what learners find significant, and then connect with them in those areas. In implementation of student-centered learning, an educator must provoke students’ engagement in preparation, execution, and evaluation. In this scenario, learners are at the center of their learning environment. This methodology, in turn, produces a learning experience of heightened retention of information, which is then directly related to transfer of knowledge into application–promoting change.
In Bannier’s The Trellis Theory of Adult Online Learning (2014), she highlights the experience of the learner being one in which there is a belief that everything learned and digested will all come together, cohesively; that the pieces will connect when founded on relevance. Serving as an agent for change, EOE makes it their goal to ensure learners are able to make sense of the concepts introduced to them; that they are able to piece concepts together to be mended with everyday life observations and applications, for practicality.
It is with this described foundation that Echoes of Excellence conducts professional development of motivation and education, keeping in constant remembrance that education is, indeed, an agent for change.
Reference
Bannier, B. (2014) The trellis theory of adult online learning. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 4(1), 12-17.
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