Reviewing the Get Set Learn Program on a Continuous Basis

As a GSL facilitator, it is important that you constantly review what you are doing with your group (your practice) to ensure that you are meeting their needs. The following six questions can guide you as to whether or not you are adapting to meet the needs of your participants.

1. Is most of your time with the group spent talking in front of them or are you working with them and ensuring they interact with you and the other families?
2. Do you follow a course outline that you have set or do you modify based on group needs?
3. Have you researched information for your group or do you use the same information each time you facilitate GSL?
4. Do the parents work on the same homework each session or do you vary it?
5. Do you find that it is necessary that you “get through” all of the curriculum or are you flexible and cover most of it over the 16 sessions?
6. Is your GSL session the same this time as the last time or have you adapted it to suit your families?

It is also extremely important that you constantly review how things are going with the other people involved in helping you run the GSL program including the child care providers and the coordinators. This will ensure that information is being shared and if problems arise, they can be solved sooner rather than later.

Forms and Usage

In the appendices, directly following this information, you will see nine evaluation forms that are used in Get Set Learn. The other forms used in GSL are found in Section B, “Ready, Set, Go!”