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Engaging and Empowering Students: Enabling Learning and Development through Facilitation

Engaging and Empowering Students: Enabling Learning and Development through Facilitation. Marcia Ody Teaching and Learning Manager marcia.ody@manchester.ac.uk Justin Kennedy Teaching and Learning Adviser j ustin.kennedy@manchester.ac.uk. Session Outline.

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Engaging and Empowering Students: Enabling Learning and Development through Facilitation

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  1. Engaging and Empowering Students:Enabling Learning and Development through Facilitation Marcia Ody Teaching and Learning Manager marcia.ody@manchester.ac.uk Justin Kennedy Teaching and Learning Adviser justin.kennedy@manchester.ac.uk

  2. Session Outline • Developing engagement & independence • Exploring Facilitation • Skills development • Action planning • Modelling active peer learning • Justin’s story

  3. Independent Learners “We are trying to support students in becoming independent and active learners.” (HEA event information) So… What is an independent and active learner?

  4. Engaging and Empowering How do we engage and empower students as independent learners? What does an engaged and empowered independent learner look like?

  5. Enabling through Facilitation What is Facilitation? In your own words spend a couple of minutes to complete this sentence: Facilitation means ….. English dictionary definitions: • To assist the progress of… • To make easier…

  6. Enabling through Facilitation A facilitator helps individuals or groups achieve their goals A facilitator is someone who assists the progress of individuals or groups, who makes processes easier

  7. Enabling through Facilitation Differences between Facilitation and Teaching: 1) Individually, jot down any differences 2) In pairs, share your ideas 3) Tables, discuss what ideas each pair has and on A3 paper, illustrate the differences 4) Sharing your thoughts

  8. Skills development “The aim…is to enable students to take the skills that have gained at University so that they may transfer and apply them elsewhere…” (HEA event information) So… What skills do students gain at University?

  9. Skills development How do we help students to articulate the transferability of these skills beyond University and/or into employment?

  10. Personal development Planning activity and moving forward… Action Planning: Developing a Co-Curricular Personal Development Programme What questions would you want answers to?

  11. Facilitation Techniques • Structure • Clear task • Group discussion • Mixed methods • Timed • Wait Time • Questions • Peer to Peer interaction • Think, Pair, Share • Jigsaw • Scaffolding • Illustration • Brainstorm • Rounds • Scribes • Whole group call out • Action plans • Developing questions • Prioritisation

  12. Process not ContentInvisible but LeadingEngaging, Empowering and Enabling

  13. Justin’s Story My Undergraduate journey • Connecting • Confidence • Identity • Engaging others • Community • Impact • Recognition Influence beyond • Conduit • Creative development • Facilitation as a management tool • Collaborative influence • Empowering and equipping others

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