Give out a lesson plan on Day 1 and use that throughout the morning sessions so all lesson basics are well tied in to create a good lesson plan.
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New ideas!
Challenge the participants with certain creative feedback ideas.
Next time
We had one participant allergic to scents and struggled to find sufficient unscented markers. Also, the dry-erase wet wipes are scented. Next time this could be part of the planning.
New ideas!
Kat’s large group icebreaker (no name island) –> you’re stranded with $20, what would you bring (one item); then team up with a small group and act/draw what you would do with all the items.
Use less FC paper, can use the white background of the FC board with dry-erase markers
Flexible Learning
*Feedback and mini-lesson cycle on the online part
*Re-arranging the website to have the intro and welcome in a different sub-header
*Online dotmocracy including LOs and voting via email (could be done via google forms or surveymonkey)
New ideas!
If you want to form some random groups, take paper clips in various colours (depending on how many participants you want in one group, count them in advance and pick the appropiate number of different colours). Then, go around the circle and ask everyone to choose one paper clip from the pile in your hands (or a small box) followed by announcing that everyone with colour x will be in one group etc.
Fun fact: Came up with it on the fly when I forgot to prepare my groupings and all I had available was one of our boxes with stickies, pens and other material, including paper clips!
Flexible Learning
Telling them that if everybody does it we can count the time as transferred (i.e., make the day shorter). Only one participant didn’t do it!
Encourage participants to read and respond to each others’ comments – made it feel productive, less like busy work
The Company You Keep
Call out things that people might have in common (cats vs. dogs, colour of shoes, birth month, etc.)
People self-organize into groups. Each new group, they have to introduce themselves to everybody, even if they’ve already met.
I remembered everybody’s names for the first time!
Next time
Check the summative feedback forms on Day 1 – we had the wrong ones and handed them out without realizing!
New ideas!
Used one lesson plan for all of the lesson basics 2.0 sessions (learning objectives, motivation, etc.) – participants added to it throughout each lesson and they really seemed to get how all of these elements fit together
Questioning techniques – spent some time on Socratic questioning which really worked
Leading discussions – left debate to the end so they were comfortable, small groups as teams, so they were comfortable with each other and competitive!