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Experiential Learning Cycle & Processing Questions A Guide for Coaches. From: The 1979 Annual Handbook for Group Facilitators. Experiential Learning has the potential to involve the whole person in the educational process
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Experiential Learning Cycle & Processing QuestionsA Guide for Coaches From: The 1979 Annual Handbook for Group Facilitators
Experiential Learning has the potential to involve the whole person in the educational process • Each stage of the learning cycle has objectives that move toward increasing the options available to a person in the face of new but similar situations
Phases of the Experiential Learning Cycle • Experiencing: • Generates individual data from one or more of the sensing, thinking, feeling, wanting or doing modes
Sharing: • People report the data generated from the experience
Interpreting: • People make sense of the data generated for both individuals and their group (School)
Generalizing: • People develop a testable hypotheses and abstractions from the data
Applying: • Bridge the present and the future by understanding and/or planning how these generalizations can be tested in a new place
Processing Questions Stage I Experiencing Stage • What is going on? • How do you feel about that? • What do you need to know to . . .? • Would you be willing to try? • Could you be more specific? • Could you off a suggestion? • What would you prefer? • What are your suspicions? • What is your objection? • If you could guess the answer, what would it be? • Can you say that in another way? • What is the worst/best that could happen? • What else? • And? • Would you say more about that?
Processing Questions Stage II Sharing Stage • Who would volunteer to share? Who else? • Who else had the same experience? • Who reacted differently? • Were there surprises/puzzlements? • How many felt the same? • What did you observe? • What were you aware of>
Processing Questions Stage III Interpreting Stage • How did you account for that? • What does that mean to you? • How was that significant? • How was that good/bad? • What struck you about that? • How do those fit together? • What does that suggest to you about yourself/your (school)? • What do you understand better about yourself/your (school)?
Processing Questions Stage IV Generalizing Stage • What might we draw/pull from that? • What does that suggest to you about ______ in general? • Does that remind you of anything? (back at your school) • What principle/law do you see operating? • How does this relate to other experiences? • What do you associate with that?
Processing Questions Stage V Applying Stage • How would you apply/transfer that? • What would you like to do with that? With what you learned? • What could you do to hold on to that? • What are the options? • How could you make it better? • What would be the consequences of doing/not doing that? • What modifications can you make work for you?
Final Stage of Processing the Entire Experience as a Learning Experience • How was this for you? • What were the pluses/minuses? • How might it have been more meaningful? • What changes would you make? • If you had it to do all over again what would you do?