Facilitation Strategies
The strategy that involves sitting in silence between asking a question and a student responding.
What is wait time?
This is when students consider a problem, converse about their thoughts with a partner, and then discuss with the entire group.
What is think-pair-share?
Students try to write down everything they can remember about a given topic.
What is a brain dump?
You would be calling this campus group if you were locked out of your SI session room.
What is Campus Safety?
You need to do this many peer observations a semester.
What is two?
An example of this strategy could be asking students to summarize a concept or explain their answer.
What is checking for understanding?
If students are quiet, you could put them in these and assign them a problem to encourage participation and collaborative learning.
What are (small) groups?
Students review the content and create these to test each other's knowledge.
What is making or predicting questions?
If the QR code for this is not working, you should write down students' names and email them to LeeAnn.
What is attendance?
You should be looking for these techniques during the session you observe. Examples include wait time, redirecting questions, and checking for understanding.
What are facilitation skills?
If a student asks you a question, you should use this diverting strategy instead of answering it yourself.
What is redirecting questions?
In this technique, students will break off into small groups and work on one piece of a problem or question. Each group will then explain their piece to the big group to form a complete answer or idea.
What is jigsaw?
Students review content and determine the overarching concept or take-home message known by this phrase.
What is the big idea?
If one student is dominating the session, you could have them take on this role where they write things from the session on the board for everyone to see.
What is a scribe?
When filling out the peer observation form, answers to this section may be to use more wait time or to diversify learning techniques used.
What is areas of improvement?