Facilitation Strategies
An open ended question you ask after explaining to check if people were following along
What is Check for Understanding?
The part of ROPES that tutors typically run out of time for
What is Summary?
A group activity where students summarize the previous lecture and refer to their notes and textbooks for information
What is Summarize the Lecture?
An activity that can be used for feedback or as a check for understanding where students are required to provide the facilitator with a ticket before leaving the session
What is Ticket Out the Door?
An activity where the students need to figure out which 2 of 3 phrases are incorrect and which one is correct
What is Two Lies and a Truth?
A technique to encourage student-to-student interaction
What is Redirecting Questions?
The most flexible and simple of the facilitation frameworks
What is WISE?
An active learning strategy where you ask students to provide one-minute responses to questions like "What was the big point you learned in the last lecture?"
What is One-Minute Response?
An activity that makes folks guess about the upcoming lecture material
What is Predict the Next Lecture?
A collaborative strategy most effective in word problems, good for midsession and closing activities
What is First Step Only?
The time the facilitator waits after a response. This gives the other students a chance to process the response.
What is wait time 2?
The part of the tutoring cycle that aims to make folks feel welcomed
What is step 1 of the tutoring cycle?
An activity where students are required to provide one formula or word they remember from the previous lecture
What is One Sentence/Word/Formula/?
The strategy where you ask each student to share what they thought was the most important idea or formula they learned in the session. This strategy is usually good for closing activities.
What is "What's the Big Idea?"
The session is divided into sections where the tutor demonstrates a question, then the students solve the question in groups, and then solve that question individually
What is the 3X10 Structure?
A strategy where you ask the student questions to "summarize what was just explained" or "provide a definition in your own words"
A facilitation framework that emphasizes activating prior knowledge
What is ROPES?
An opening activity that is played with flashcards and relies heavily on memory.
What is Memory?
An activity where you challenge students to think about how the concept can be applied to real life scenarios
What is Real Life?
An activity that is good for the full group and you would only do mid-session
What is Jeopardy?
The time the facilitator waits after asking a question. This gives students the time to think and plan the answer.
What is wait time 1?
The step in the tutoring cycle that gets students to tell you back what happened in the session
What is Step 7 of the tutoring cycle?
An activity where students provide one word or formula that stuck with them from the last lecture in a 'popping' fashion. This is a full group activity and usually good for openers.
What is Popcorn Activity?
An activity where students are required to answer questions to pre-prepared quiz. In online sessions, this can be done using Quizlet
What is Informal Quiz?
An activity where you provide students with the steps before asking them to solve the question in groups. This activity is usually good for mid-session activities
What is Structured Problem Solving?