Brainstorming allows participants to share lots of ideas quickly and without fear. This is a useful way to encourage creative thinking and dialogue. Here’s how to organise an effective brainstorming activity: Select a topic and ask the group to share their ideas. For example, ‘What Read More …
Category: Methodology Examples
Facilitators, lecturers or teachers can use the following methodologies in their GCDE work to encourage participation and engagement:
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Conversation starters
Use some form of conversation starter to get people talking to each other in pairs, trios or larger groups. The following list of possible questions or explanation prompts can be written on such things as a board, pieces of paper, blocks, posters, iPads, etc. The Read More …
Crafting good questions
The Conversation Café provides some guidance on how teachers might craft good questions. www.conversationcafe.org Some ideas are summarised below. Characteristics of a good question: There are no embedded cultural, political, or ideological assumptions. It involves both head and heart. People can respond with Read More …
Debriefing
Debriefs are used to reflect on and reinforce the learning that has emerged from an activity. They are also important for identifying how participants are feeling. This will help you decide what needs to happen next. It’s usually a good idea to prepare your debrief Read More …
Evaluating and Assessing
Evaluation tools can help students to think about the impact of their work. They can be encouraged to think about the outcome they wish to see from the outset. They can ask the question “What change do we want to see?” and set criteria against Read More …
Facilitation skills
One of the most important skills for a teacher of Development Education and students wishing to engage in active citizenship, is facilitation. Educators are facilitators of learning and active citizens often find themselves facilitating and/or joining with others to facilitate a process of change. Facilitation Read More …
Gallery walks
Gallery walks get participants to stand up, move around and engage visually as well as verbally. They allow participants to share and reflect on lots of ideas in quick succession. Here’s how to run a gallery walk: Place text and images around the Read More …
Icebrakers
A cursory online search will reveal a myriad of icebreaker activities. What you want to achieve Icebreakers are fun activities designed to help people get to know one another. They can also be designed to allow students to become acquainted with course content Read More …
Images
FairViews Development Education Photopack, by Gerry Jeffers, is available free of charge: http://developmentoptions.ie/download-page/ Not only does it contain useful photographs but also explains how the teacher can use images in the classroom. He points out that people learn through interacting with a range of Read More …
