Trails to Literacy: TOOLKIT
Group activities, where the team works collaboratively to plan, act and evaluate, help individuals to learn in a social context. They learn from each other about how to listen, speak and act; how to become more open to varied opinions; and how to deal with difficulties and complex situations.
However, the basis of Trails to Literacy’s effectiveness to learning is that students are in charge of their own learning - they provide the direction, set the goals, reflect on the value, and evaluate the results of their own learning processes. Therefore we offer some thoughts and tools to help individual participants ‘take charge’.
From the world of business we know that people who achieve success are those who engage in planning, identifying specific goals, and designing strategies to work toward them
(Peters & Waterman, 1982)...reflecting on their own performance by engaging in planning, monitoring and evaluating behaviours that foster self-awareness and can work in conjunction with personal goal setting.
(Barell, 1995)