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Facilitators'
Manual Guidelines |
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The Facilitators' Manual should include materials you distribute to
participants in your workshop, but should be designed primarily for your own
team of facilitators and for yours truly. |
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Title Page |
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Obviously, this should list the title for your workshop; it
should be descriptive and memorable. Include the date of the workshop and
list the members of your team on the title page. And spell names correctly |
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Executive
Summary |
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The executive summary is a brief description
of your workshop which should concisely explain its purpose and relevance
(or importance) of the workshop and should offer a concise summary of the
key elements to be covered. Executive summaries are commonly used in
promotional materials sent to prospective clients, in facilitator’s manuals,
and even in participants’ manuals. Whether you distribute it to your
participants is up to you.
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Objectives |
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While you may choose to share your objectives
with participants, it is not necessary. Objectives should be specific,
observable, and measurable—indeed, they should be measurable by the
Evaluation Plan you develop for this workshop. Because of time and other
constraints, most of your objectives will probably deal with the cognitive
domain—that is, “knowledge.” Please try to include at least one objective
which deals directly with “skills.”
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Be sure to specify the
criteria you will use in determining whether or know a specific knowledge or
skill is being used adequately by your classmates in future workshops.
For additional information on how to write effective objectives, see
Objectives
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EVALUATION |
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Outline |
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Just that—an annotated outline of key ideas,
activities, etc.. The estimated time for each element should be listed in
the left margin at the beginning of each section/activity. You may or may
not to choose to distribute this to participants.
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Materials |
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The stuff you share with participants:
handouts (articles, structured notepads, activities, etc.) and (paper)
copies of your transparencies. (Some instructor’s manuals include an
annotated version of the handouts and transparencies—that is not required in
this series). Be sure to note authorship, etc. on each document. And
provide additional materials, relevant to the same material, which could be
used either for a longer workshop or as additional materials that trainees
might take home with them.
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References |
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Provide
an annotated list of key materials you used, and another annotated list
“For further information.” The reference citations must conform to APA
style guidelines.
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Evaluation Plan |
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You must
develop a workshop evaluation form designed to assess whether or not you
achieved your key objectives. Because of the time and content, you will
primarily be measuring “learning” (a.k.a. “knowledge,” “Psychomotor
domain.”). You should also identify the procedure and tools you might use
to assess long-term changes (perhaps an observation for you will fill out
during future workshops facilitated by your classmates.
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