Activity C

Expanding on learning experience

Reflection, use of sticky notes, discussion

Materials and equipment

Sticky notes
Flip chart

STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS

  1. Ask tutors to share one or two things they learned in the workshop that they could see themselves using in a tutoring session.
  2. Ask tutors to share one concept they want to learn more about. (It does not have to relate to this session.) Give them sticky notes and ask them to write out the concept and place the sticky on the flip chart. Explain that this information is important for planning your tutor training.
  3. Go over each sticky and let tutors know when you will be covering that concept in the tutor training sessions. If there is some concept you do not plan to cover, offer them some resources that will give them the information.
  4. Mention that if there was anything in this session they did not understand, you would be happy to talk to them further.


Literacy coordinators and tutors are more likely to be effective if they recognize the strengths and abilities of the learners, approach them as equal partners in the learning process and remember that they are adults with outside responsibilities.

Mary Elliott, et al. in Empowering the Spirit II


Variation

Place a drawing of a person at the front of the room and ask people to place a sticky note beside the head, the heart, and the hand or foot to represent something they learned, something they felt and some action they want to take because of what they learned from this unit.

You could also create a line along the middle of a wide piece of newsprint (or several flip chart papers taped together, widthwise), with each of the activities noted at points in sequence along the line. Tutors each use a marker to draw a line to indicate the flow of their sense of engagement during the day (high to low, above and below the neutral line) and where they felt their learning was greatest by adding a light bulb above those activities. This could open dialogue on the effectiveness of the experience and invite suggestions for strengthening the unit for future learners.