Submit your plan for the session and your reflection addressing each of the points above.
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As with most skills, the best way to become an effective facilitator is to practice. This week, you will apply your
learning by planning and facilitating a professional development session with your learning team. You should plan to
conduct about an hour-long session.
Plan the session:
Identify the purpose of the session based on the needs and goals that you have identified with your learning team.
Possible topics might include the following:
Working on a school-wide initiative
Cross-curricular unit planning
Analyzing student work
Working on a specific school improvement goal
Addressing an issue or problem that is widely acknowledged at your school
Working on a specific content strategy or research practice
Engaging in dialogue to gain understanding of an issue or problem
Working on an action research initiative
Once you have determined a topic, ask yourself the following questions:
Why is this professional development occurring? What is the ultimate purpose in terms of student learning?
Who will be affected by this event?
What is the background knowledge of the adult learners in the group?
What change do I expect from the participants? (Include intended changes in knowledge, attitudes, skills, aspirations,
and behaviors-KASABs)
How can I infuse appropriate technologies into this presentation and the assessment process?
How will I measure the impact of this change?
Review the planning and evaluating criteria provided in this week’s “Weighing the Workshop” article and address each in
your planning:
Coherence
Climate
Instructional strategies
Participant engagement
Logistical considerations for participant learning
Assessment and feedback
Prepare an agenda. (Use the guidelines provided in the “Designing Time-Efficient and Effective Meetings” chapter of the
course text, The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups). Select one or more strategies from
Appendix A of the Adaptive School that you will use to facilitate the session. Provide a rationale for the strategy or
strategies that you choose.
Use the “Top Ten Facilitation Skills” list that you created in this week’s Discussion to create a Facilitation Skills
Checklist. Plan how you will practice these skills during the session.
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Conduct the session:
Arrange to have someone videotape the session so that you can review and evaluate your facilitation skills after the
session. Alternately, you may invite an additional participant, provide them with your Facilitation Skills Checklist and
have him/her observe and record your performance during the session.
In closing the session, elicit feedback from participants.
Reflect on the session:
Review the videotape of the session and use your Facilitation Skills Checklist to evaluate your performance. If you did
not videotape the session, debrief with the participant who observed and recorded your performance. Identify areas of
strength and areas for improvement in your facilitation skills.
Reflect on your facilitation of the session, the participants’ engagement and involvement, and the degree to which you
were able to effectively accomplish the goals of the session. What went particularly well? What might you do differently
next time?
How did technology improve/enhance the presentation?
Note: Practicing your facilitation skills in an authentic context with your learning team is the ideal scenario for this
assignment and will produce the most benefit for you and your learning team. The main goal of this assignment, however,
is for you to practice the skills that you will need to be an effective facilitator. If you are unable to convene a
session with your learning team, you may explore other options with your Instructor.
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Learning Resources
This page contains the Learning Resources for this week. Be sure to scroll down the page to see all of this week’s
assigned Learning Resources. To access select media resources, please use the media player below.
Required Resources
• Course Text: The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups
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o Chapter 6, “Designing Time-Efficient and Effective Meetings”
o Chapter 7, “The Confident and Skilled Facilitator”
Note: As you read this chapter, make a list of important facilitation skills. You will create and share a “Top Ten
Facilitation Skills” list with your Walden colleagues in this week’s Discussion.
o Appendix A, “Strategies: A Process Toolkit for Facilitators and Teams”
Read the “How to Use This Appendix” section and peruse strategies throughout the appendix. As you do so, consider the
various contexts in which the strategies would be appropriate.
Note: You will use at least one of the strategies provided in Appendix A to help you facilitate a meeting with your
school-based team for this week’s Application.
Course Text: Becoming a Learning School (Companion CD)
o Tool 14.1, “8 Smooth Steps”
Note: This article presents an eight-step evaluation process for professional development efforts and provides an
important frame of reference as you plan to work with your school-based team this week. While you are encouraged to read
the entire article, you are only required to read through page 19 for this week’s assignments. You will learn more about
the evaluation of professional development in subsequent courses.
Article: Little, C. A., & Paul, K. A. (2009). Weighing the workshop: Assess the merits with six key criteria for
planning and evaluating. Journal of Staff Development, 30(5), 26-30.
Reprinted with permission from NSDC/Learning Forward.
Media
• ASCD Course Media: “Tuning Protocol Meeting”
Used by permission from ASCD. All rights reserved.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 30 minutes.
Dr. Lois Easton facilitates a tuning protocol meeting.
Note: As you view, pay attention to the various roles of the facilitator during the meeting. You will share your
observations with your colleagues in this week’s Discussion.
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Optional Resources
• Course Text: The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups
o Chapter 5, “Conducting Successful Meetings”
Website: Public Schools of North Carolina: Presentation Skills
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/profdev/presentation/
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