Learning and Teaching in Practice/Facilitating a session/Facilitation methods

For this topic you will be asked to organise a teaching observation as part of the portfolio activity. That is arrange for someone to observe the session and give you feedback on your planning and facilitation. We suggest you use the as a guide to the observer giving feedback. To download this file, you may be asked to log into Moodle. The components of the template may influence how you plan to facilitate the session so it can serve as a guide to the faciitation methods you may choose.

You can use this feedback when critiquing your session. As this is only one way for you to get feedback on your session, further options are covered in the next topic: Critiquing a session.



Use a range of facilitation methods
Using a range of teaching methods helps meet diverse learning needs and preferences and helps keep learners engaged.

We can categorise learning activities depending on whether learners learn on their own (individual) or whether they work in pairs or small groups or as a whole class.

To cater for diverse learning needs and preferences, it can be very helpful to incorporate each of these types of activity during a session or sequence of sessions: Click on the expand button to the right of each type of activity for more information:

Structure your session
Creating a logical and engaging structure for the session helps learners develop concepts and keep focused.

Click on the expand button to the right of each stage of the session for more information:

Acknowledgement: sections of this topic have been based on Ako Aotearoa's Signposts publication (CC-BY-SA).