Introduction

This lesson format gives students the opportunity to practice their facilitation skills for the lessons that they have experienced the weeks before. We advised you to have made a lesson plan before you started this curriculum, and to plan this practice lesson during the curriculum, at several moments (For instance after lesson 1 and lesson 2) so students get the opportunity to practice all lessons.

In this section you will find general instructions to have students practice any lesson of this curriculum, so it’s a general format that you can apply.

Good to know:

1. All facilitation lessons offer several opportunities for practice of facilitation. Practice I and practice II are the basic elements, but for maximum practice also ‘introduction’, ‘reflection on homework’ and ‘wrap up’ can be facilitated by students.
2. In Feedback I and II the students who are not facilitating, will be observing the facilitation skills of their peers.
3. The lessons that shall be practiced, we shall call ‘practice lessons’ (for instance if you plan a facilitation lesson that will practice lesson 1 and 2, those lessons are ‘practice lessons’.

1. Students experience what the main principles and insights of each lesson are
2. Students apply the 10 basic principles of facilitation in their own practice
3. Students practice in preparing a lesson
4. Students get feedback on what they personally still need to develop to become a good facilitator