Improving Classroom Facilitation
An Introduction
If you have not recently completed the Watersheds activity,
please try to sit with people who have.
MetaActivity: Classroom Facilitation
• Read quickly through Model 2 of
MetaActivity: Process Skills
• Read quickly through the Watersheds Activity
• As a group, review/complete MetaActivity:
Classroom Facilitation
8 minutes
Improving SII Statements
Strengths
• Facilitator did a great job.
• Facilitator handled questions well.
Improvements
• Could manage time better.
• Didn’t circulate enough.
Insights
• Facilitating is hard.
• I learned a lot by observing.
Report Out on Strengths
Strengths
• Facilitator did a great job.
• Facilitator handled questions well.
Report Out on Improvements
Improvements
• Could manage time better.
• Didn’t circulate enough.
Report Out on Insights
Insights
• Facilitating is hard.
• I learned a lot by observing.
Fishbowl Setup
10 minutes
Facilitation of Activity
20–25 minutes
Debriefing
2 minutes
Individual SII
3 minutes
Group SII
8 minutes
Report Out
20 minutes
Further Insights
Take one minute to write down at least one
facilitation strategy that you could use in your
own classroom.
Report out either:
• One additional insight about facilitation, or
• A facilitation strategy that you could use in your own
classroom
5 minutes