Facilitator Resources: Week 1 In-Person Session Agenda Sample

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120 minutes

Territorial Acknowledgment

Invite participants to do their own territorial acknowledgment

Description of Today’s Session

Ice breaker activity

• E.g. Snowball fight – write three statements about yourself on a piece of paper, crumple it up, and throw it at someone in the room. Continue to toss the ‘snowballs’ until sufficiently randomized. Pick one, standing in a circle, take turns reading them and as a group guess who the statements apply to.
• Ask participants to share reasons for including ice breaker activities; ask participants for examples that can be used – for online/ in-person/both.

Principles

• Review and discuss blended-learning principles as described on course site.
  • Think Pair Share:
    • What principle stand out to you as most important to consider when planning a lesson in a blended learning mode? Why? (Participants were asked to consider this prior to session.)
    • Are there other principles that are important to be considering? (Participants were asked to consider this prior to session.)

Challenges and Benefits

• Liberating Structure, building on online activity/discussion. E.g. 1-2-3-4 All

BOPPPS

• Introduce and review BOPPPS (PPT).
• Provide example from week using Challenges and Benefits lesson.

Giving and Receiving Feedback

• Purpose:
  • Am I reaching my goals?
  • Does my behaviour match my intention?
  • What do others see?
• Crowd source: Have you been in a position to offer feedback in the past? What has worked well?
  • Specific and Descriptive
  • Changeable
  • Valuable to the person
  • Owned (‘I’ statements): What does it do for me as a learner?
  • Timely
• Receiving Feedback
  • Ask for clarification when needed – paraphrase and ask questions.
  • Say thank you

Describe week 2 activities.

• Deadlines for posting, responding to lessons.
• Posting your lesson, with links and resources as needed, in the discussion board.
• Provide feedback only for lessons you have participated in fully.

Close

• Ask participants to share key ‘ahas’ or takeaways from the first week.
• Questions
• Our availability and accessibility

Provide time to connect with individual participants about plans for their blended lessons.