Facilitation: What does it take?
Check out this Facilitation Skills Assessment by Bottom-Line Performance to identify areas of strength and opportunities for growth. Even though it is geared towards presenters, what skills might be important for facilitating job-embedded professional development?
Getting Ready for Lab Classrooms
1. Identify a focus. Based on data, what might be an essential question for your group to study?
1. Identify a focus. Based on data, what might be an essential question for your group to study?
- What focus might help teachers improve their practice?
- What evidence-based strategies could be shared to demonstrate this focus?
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3. Communicate with appropriate stakeholders*
- Selection of hosts/observers
- Schedule
- Meet with host
- Communicate with teaching staff
- Identify needed resources (i.e. note-taking, sticky notes, binders, iPads, etc)
- Know who is handling details: communication, rooms, subs, tech support, snacks, etc.
- Help prepare students if needed
Watch this video to think about facilitation & observation skills.
1) Watch the first 7 minutes.
2) Watch the video through the lesson.
3) Watch the rest of the video where the coach and teacher debrief.
- What kinds of support does the technology coach provide?
- How does the discussion move the teacher to considering the possibilities of technology integration?
2) Watch the video through the lesson.
- Notice teacher moves; student moves
- How does the technology impact learning?
- If you were debriefing with teachers, what would you hope to highlight?
3) Watch the rest of the video where the coach and teacher debrief.
- How is the discussion structured?
- How does the debrief support professional growth?
Here's an example of a debrief from a local school. Where would you interject as a facilitator?