Facil Principles
Having students read ahead in the course text is an example of which principle of facilitation?
What is Prepare to Learn?
With benefits emerging in students' ability to differentiate between similar concepts, this study skill is less helpful when studying very different subjects and ideas.
What is interleaving?
A good rule of thumb for trying to identify an activity's Bloom's level when it seems like more than one is met.
What is choosing the highest level met in the taxonomy?
These two rooms are ESP-claimed, featuring our material filing cabinets, (usually) consistent workshop-friendly table set-ups, and informative posters and schedules for students.
What are Tory Building 206 and 234?
What is an alligator?
In contrast with one of our facil principles, it is not uncommon for ESP students (and facilitators) to begin the program with this kind of disposition.
What is a fixed mindset?
The most effective study skill.
What is retrieval practice?
This bloom's level could be (and has been, in previous team meeting activities) represented by a wizard mixing potions.
What is Create?
This is the average amount of time you should be spending doing facilitator work per week according to your contract.
What is 10 hours?
This activity that Gurleen often hypes up (as she should) help boost motivation in students by encouraging them to look at a bigger picture.
What is an audit hunt?
Variety and flexibility are two essential elements of this principle of facilitation.
What is Universal Instructional Design (UID)?
The number of skills featured on the green diagram featured in the Facilitator Guide.
What is 22?
This Bloom's level requires students to find similarities, differences, or patterns in the content.
What is Analyze?
This facilitation tool is one that can help motivate students and can help assure you that you have good reason to the run the activities you choose.
What is the Big Why? (or, Learning Outcomes)
After some students' in-workshop discussions got inappropriately off-topic, this facilitator took some time to reassert and stress workshop expectations, leading to a more productive and safe learning environment.
Who is Avery?
These two aspects of Gradual Autonomy improve motivation and learning.
What are independence and choice?
As forms of elaboration, these two study skills help build connections to course content, thus improving our ability to remember course content.
What are dual coding and concrete examples?
One of the action descriptors that can help clue us in to activities or assessments that are asking students to reach the level of Remember.
What is identify, label, list, memorize, recall, point out, state, or select?
Introduced in our penultimate in-service training, this tool, while not a requirement for faciling, can help remind us of good practices. For example, using open-ended questions or meeting student's negative outlooks with positives instead of just commiserating with them (when it seems productive).
What is Motivational Interviewing?
Bearing the name of a stealthy reptile, this game increased student engagement (and student's swearing habits) when Leslie ran it in her workshop.
What is Chameleon?
List each of the facilitator principles.
What are:
Universal Instructional Design
Gradual Autonomy
Growth Mindset
Integrate Skills with Core Content
Peer Collaboration and Accountability
Active Learning
Safe and Brave Learning Environment
Preparing to Learn
Often forgotten for its similar sounding and more frequently emphasized sibling, this skill contains multitudes, referring to certain kinds of study practice to help transfer information from short-term to long-term memory.
What is Rehearsal?
Two of the action descriptors that can help clue us in to activities or assessments that are asking students to reach the level of Remember.
What are (any two) change, classify, demonstrate, examine, manipulate, modify, relate, and extend?
You spent these specific Friday nights learning how to be a better facil/employee.
What are January 10th, February 7th, and February 28th?
Sharing a title structure akin to that of a pop punk band formed in the early 00s, Sarah ran this activity which prompted her students to engage in their more dramatic sides as they applied course content.
What is Coping at the Dinner Party?