Content Facilitation

Learn to shift from a being a Teacher to being a Facilitator

Facilitation is beyond asking questions. It starts from incorporating processes into your lesson design to promote engagement, discussion and deeper understanding. 

In this hands-on workshop, you will experience lesson demos that are facilitative in nature. From there, you will also have the opportunity to unpack and understand the 3 key components (below) that promote facilitation during lessons. 

What I’ll take-away

• Expose to Facilitation Strategies that support and promote discussion in a classroom setting
• Acquire a range of Inquiry Processes that support learners in deepening their understanding.
• Learn to design triggers within activities that instigate learners’ need to enquiry

Promote students’ voices and deepen thought process on understanding topics through facilitation.

With the emphasis of promoting students’ voices in CCE lessons, the focus has shifted from telling right and wrong to building moral reasoning within students. This changes the role of a Teacher to a Facilitator to support the development of learners’ socio-cognitive skills.

In this hands-on workshop, you will experience various CCE lessons that are facilitative in nature. These lessons will integrate both CSI Inquiry Process and CCE Facilitation Strategies. We will then unpack the lessons to understand the 3 key components (below) that promote facilitation during CCE lessons. 

What I’ll Take-Away

• Expose to Facilitation Strategies that support and promote discussion
• Acquire Inquiry processes (CSI) that support learners in deepening their understanding systematically
• Learn to design trigger activities that instigate learners’ need to enquiry

It is critical to focus on building students’ competency to engage in constructive dialogue in Complex & Sensitive Issues.

Complex & Sensitive issues are constantly emerging and evolving. One critical characteristic of these issues is that they are far from agreement and certainty. However, what remains constant is one’s ability to hold a constructive dialogue with others of differing views and explore appreciative understanding.

In this workshop, you will experience and unpack key learning points in facilitating conversations around Complex & Sensitive Issues. We will explore ways to build students’ competency to engage in constructive dialogue and building “frames” to see beyond the surface symptoms of an issue. 

What I’ll Take-Away

• Acquire multiple unique Inquiry processes, facilitation strategies and trigger activities to support constructive dialogue
• Practice and understand the importance of NEUTRALITY in facilitation
• Pick up methods to handle emerging topics and close a discussion
• Learn the art to building “frames” for students to view complex issues in a different manner

Without engagement, there is no attention. Without attention, there will be no learning.

Educators are constantly battling distractions that students’ face, be it digitally or physically. Engagement in a learning setting is absolutely essential and a prerequisite for all pedagogical methods. One of the key requirements for engagement is getting attention. With attention, learners can gather information, process and consolidate understanding better. 

Often, engaging educators are frequently viewed as charismatic and dynamic, which may give the impression that it comes down to personality – this is not true! 

In this hands-on workshop, you will get to experience engagement. After which we will unpack the experience to discover specific strategies and techniques to create engagement which are applicable in both face-to-face and online settings.

What I’ll Take-Away

• Understand the components of engagement in-depth
• Acquire up to 30 strategies within the 7 categories of creating engagement

Our brain can either PAY ATTENTION or MAKE MEANING, not BOTH at the same time.

Have you experienced any of these below and wondered how to overcome them?
a)  Are there any questions?   silence
b)  Would anyone like to share?    silence
c)  Could you share your thoughts around the question?   silence

Very often in a lesson, the silence after a question is asked has a lot to do with learners trying to make meaning with the information that was presented. 

In this workshop, we will explore the “nature” of silence and subtle things that we do as Educators that may unknowingly trigger this silence. We will also share specific techniques in handling such situations to promote learner responses during your session.

What I’ll Take-Away

• Understand the sequence to apply when handling silence.
• Acquire up to 5 techniques that will promote and invite responses from your learners.

“Motivation is not only important in its own right; it is also an important predictor of learning and achievement. Students who are more motivated to learn persist longer, produce higher quality effort, learn more deeply, and perform better in classes.”

Many of us are familiar with theories regarding learner motivation and are aware of its impact. In addition, many also tried learner-centric strategies to increase learner motivation. Then the golden question here is, what other specific skills do I need in order to increase buy-in to the content and activities I am teaching?

In this workshop, you will experience the subtle art of creating buy-in. Through this, you will gain the lens to see minute and fine details in which you would not had noticed previously. This is a highly experiential workshop that demonstrates specific skills in creating buy-in.  

What I’ll Take-Away

• Understand education paradigms that support or inhibit learner motivation.
• Acquire two specific techniques to create buy-in