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Welcome to Tried and Tweaked: Activities to re-energize peer learning sessions. Who here as already received a PDF of the book? I will have a copy for everyone to take home with them after the session. This is a collection of activities that our student leaders have created over the past 5 years. Many of the activities address 2 principles (out of 8) that guide facilitators when planning and conducting their sessions: 1) they model productive learning behaviors, and 2) they encourage students to interact with each other so peers are truly helping peers.
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How Tried and Tweaked came about? Inspiration for T&T goes back to 2010 Released a book Two (or More) Heads – a collection of stories of our PAL facilitators’ experiences in and outside the PAL classroom.
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Book was a brainchild of a journalism major who created it as a senior project. Encouraged by Dr. David Arendale to distribute to SI NET Here you see the TOC and the types of stories students told I became curious by the use of storytelling and it’s role in teaching. To date, 545 institutions have requested the PDF
http://www.providersedge.com/docs/km_articles/storytelling_in_organizations.pdf
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I stumbled upon an excellent article “Storytelling in Organizations.” It was my students who had the stories and I wanted more of them. They were too valuable to let fade away. Given success of our first book, I knew we would put together future collections, even though I didn’t know at the time what we would collect. I was continually amazed by the creativity in the activities facilitators designed and I wanted to capture that and give it more permanence. I thought that new facilitators would value learning about specific activities that had worked well for their predecessors, and would appreciate some tips on how to modify an activity. The facilitators were very onboard with this idea; especially because they would be the creators of the content. They felt their work was valued.
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We decided to create an archive by using the Moodle platform – similar to Blackboard - which we were already using anyway for its forums. Here you can see the different forums over the semesters. The forums were also used to store team meeting notes.
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The call for stories and descriptions of activities went to the facilitators in March and April of 2013. This forum was the humanities team. The discussion is labeled Two Heads Round Two.
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Here is the original prompt from me Each team leader sent their members the assignment, via Moodle. That spring, I also mined forum discussions from previous semesters to find descriptions of activities that had been successful. I printed copies of each teams’ posts for you to read after our session I can send PDFs to everyone on the sign-in list.
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This is the Sciences team prompt.
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And the Math team’s prompt.
Finding an Editor
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I invited facilitators to step forward if they were interested in serving as editor - it was a paid (hourly) role and would involve working over the summer. The student most interested was Justin. He facilitated chemistry PAL sessions for 5 semesters and served for one year as the sciences team leader.
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Managing the volume of activities facilitators had written about presented a challenge. The first task was to set up a system to archive the stories that would also lend itself to editing by multiple users. I created a Google spreadsheet and inserted the narratives, as they were written, right from the Moodle forums. The two student editors – Justin and Alyssa – read the narratives and generated the headings of each column. Each column is a different attribute by which we wanted to sort the stories. If a story had more than one attribute, it would show up twice.
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This is a continuation of the spreadsheet. After reading the story, each column was marked with either a 0 or a 1 – to indicate if that attribute was present or not.
Session goals:1) Study Skills and Reflection 2) Concepts / Integrating Material
/Application 3) Group Cohesion and Interaction 4) Introducing Material 5) Testing Skills 6) Writing7) Solidifying Material 8) Reviewing 9) Problem Solving
10)Terms/Vocab
Format:1) Outline2) Diagrams/concept mapping3) Discussion/small groups4) Predicting test questions5) Reflection6) Board work7) Individual work time8) Supporting document
Organizing the book
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One of the bigger challenges was figuring out how to organize the book. Alyssa and Justin had already done some of the categorizing. It was evident that the user of the book would choose an activity based on the goal of the PAL/SI/PASS session.
Narrative Author Story title
Course:MathSciencesHumanities
Session Goals *
Worksheet Game Warm-up or Wrap-up?
Format *
Suppliedby facilitator
Session goals:1) Study Skills and Reflection 2) Concepts / Integrating Material /Application 3) Group Cohesion and Interaction 4) Introducing Material 5) Testing Skills 6) Writing7) Solidifying Material 8) Reviewing 9) Problem Solving
10)Terms/Vocab
Format:1) Outline2) Diagrams/concept mapping3) Discussion/small groups4) Predicting test questions5) Reflection6) Board work7) Individual work time8) Supporting document
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One of the bigger challenges was figuring out how to organize the book. Alyssa and Justin had already done some of the categorizing. It was evident that the user of the book would choose an activity based on the goal of the PAL/SI/PASS session
Making Tried & Tweaked
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Our initial format included little picture icons that indicated the type of activity, suggested grouping, and This activity “It’s a Scratch Off!” shows that it is a game, is done individually, and involves a worksheet. It also is quite specific as to group size and length of time for each portion of the activity. Ultimately, we decided this was too prescriptive and gave an impression as being less adaptable to a reader’s situation.
Making Tried & Tweaked –Campus Copy Center
Going public
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Like we did with the other book, I sent out a notice to SINET. Over the past two years, we have had 357 requests for the PDF
Book Requests
Feedback• Written by actual student leaders
Feedback• Written by actual student leaders
• Narrative style makes the instructions for activities easier to follow than the step by step format of many other books and training manuals.
Feedback• Written by actual student leaders
• Narrative style makes the instructions for activities easier to follow than the step by step format of many other books and training manuals.
• Organized so that SILs can find an example of an activity that supports their learning objective and adapt it from there.
Feedback• Pairing lessons on Tried And Tweaked techniques
with lessons on Bloom's Taxonomy gave students a better sense of the reason for and value of how to use the book.
Feedback• Pairing lessons on Tried And Tweaked techniques
with lessons on Bloom's Taxonomy gave students a better sense of the reason for and value of how to use the book.
• SI Leaders used the format to start a library of their session plans that worked well along with feedback and reflection.
Feedback
• Activities produced higher levels of critical thinking for participants.
Feedback
• Activities produced higher levels of critical thinking for participants.
• Some students found examples boring; they wanted to see pics or videos of the activities in action.
Training with Tried and Tweaked
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We use Moodle platform Before facilitators arrive for Day 1 of training they look through various PAL resources
Training with Tried and Tweaked
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Returning facilitators are asked to do session planning using T&T activities and the session planning form. Copies of the planning form are in T&T book
Training with Tried and Tweaked
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Returning facilitators are asked to do session planning using T&T activities and the session planning form. Copies of the planning form are in T&T book
What would we change?
As suggested in the feedback from users: pictures diagrams sample worksheets
Videos will not be happening.
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The only changes I would make are really additions as suggested in the feedback we received.
