Education and Learning Resource

Basic Facilitation skill

2007-01-01T16:20:00.000+08:00

WHAT IS A FACILITATOR?

A facilitator is someone who uses knowledge of group processes to formulate and deliver the needed structure for meeting or learning interactions to be effective.
The facilitator focuses on effective processes (meeting or learning dynamics) allowing the participants to focus on the content or the substance of their work together.

The Facilitator’s role is unique, although no more or less important, since their primary focus is on the meeting or learning processes. Facilitation can involve many different levels of knowledge and skill, can include work on all kinds of problems and challenges, can assist the group in fulfilling its desire, or can include pushing participants to new levels of understanding. Most importantly, however, facilitation includes both an ability to recognize when effective meeting or learning processes are needed and an ability to provide those processes.

Other roles exist for meeting participants besides facilitation. These include scribing, recording, timekeeping and leading discussions.

"People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big SMILE"

Takes 5!

2006-12-24T21:36:00.000+08:00

Bloom’s Taxonomy

In the early ’60s, Benjamin Bloom and a university committee identified three learning domains: cognitive, psychomotor, and affective. Because the project was completed by university folks, the terms may seem a bit abstract.

Trainers typically use knowledge (cognitive), skills (psychomotor), and attitude (affective) to describe the three categories of learning. In addition, trainers frequently refer to these three learning categories as the KSAs. You may think of these as the ultimate goals of the training process — what your learner acquires as a
result of training.

Bloom’s group further expanded on the domains. They created a hierarchical ordering of the cognitive and affective learning outcomes. Their work subdivided each domain, starting from the simplest behavior to the most complex: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. Each of these levels builds on the earlier one. For example, knowledge must occur prior to comprehension; comprehension
must occur before application. Each level of learning identified the desired specific, observable, and measurable result.

This work is known as Bloom’s Taxonomy. The divisions are not absolutes, and other systems and hierarchies have been developed since then. Bloom’s Taxonomy, however, is easily understood and may be the most widely applied.

It is interesting to note that although the committee actually identified three domains of learning, they applied the six levels to only the cognitive and affective learning domains. They did not elaborate on psychomotor (skills). Their explanation for this was that they had little experience teaching manual skills at the college level.

Class ...Can we continue ?

BEFORE presentation

2006-12-22T09:41:00.000+08:00

1. Set your target

Or define your objective by determine the action you want your audience to take. always ask yourself; what action do I want my audience to take as result of my presentation? So the basic things when prearing presentation are:

a) Your attitude should matching with the audience. What is different between college and

school student? Should be any different!!

b) Learn some skill related to the audience. Like BMX bicycle for school students and Notebook

for college.

2. know your audience. They are all Human Being who want to belong, to be respected,

to be liked, to be safe and so on....each of them is unique. There 4 types of audience;

i) Prisoner-Look for crossed arms, both literally and figuratively.

ii) Vacationer-Look for a good mood combinrd with an overrelaxed attitude.

iii) Graduate-Look for frowns, rolling eyes, smug looks and crossed arms.

iv) Student-Look for smiles, enthusiastic nodding and the merciful habit of laughing at your jokes.

3. practice! practice ! practice ! No other words. You need practice. Practice makes perfect. You can do infront of your family or freind and get their feedback. Try to improve from that. No other thing here, except PRACTICE.

"The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose"
- Lilly Walter

4. mind your presentation. The a moment in the room. Imagine and visualize in your mind that you doing the presentation. Again...you need practice your mind works!.

How to make Powerful Presentations

2006-12-20T22:52:00.000+08:00

How "To be a great presenter" Simple Practice! Practice! and Practice. If this so simple, why so difficult for everyone to be a great presenter or speaker. Again, same answer...you need practice. Any TIPS!!!!...yes.

You have to remember this word: BEFORE, DURING and AFTER... presentation.

BEFORE:-)

1. Set your goal
2. know your audience
3. do rehearsing and practice
4. mind your presentation

DURING:-)

1. take a deep breath
2. control your voice
3. get in to the audience
4. be yourself
5. keeping the audience attention
6. using suitable tools and simple aids
7. beware of your body langguage

AFTER:-)

1. reveiw the audience feedback
2. keep in touch via email
3. improve your material and skill

"Every great presentation contains a certain something that makes it excellent; and if you could isolate it and repeat it, that certain something would make you a GREAT presenter" - Tony Jeary

Note: Next posting, we'll go details about BEFORE....how about your comments.