This document discusses the crucial role that briefings and debriefings play in experiential education. It explains that briefings prepare participants for an experience by engaging them, evaluating their knowledge, establishing interest, and educating them. Debriefings allow for higher-level thinking through questioning that moves up Bloom's Taxonomy from basic knowledge to evaluation. Tips for effective briefings include capturing attention, assessing participants, and opening doors to further learning. Tips for debriefings are to ask more than one question per topic, give time for thinking, redirect questions to the group, and be comfortable with silence. Both briefings and debriefings are essential parts of the experiential learning process.

1. The Crucial Role
Briefing and
Debriefing Play in
Experiential
Education

2. Welcome Educators
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3. What is our role?
FACIL…
…to make easy
Facilitator – one who makes this easier for someone.
What is one thing that has always remained
constant in American History?
No one ever washes a rented car!

4. Experiential Learning Triangle
Education
Brief
Apply
Reflection
Debrief
Experience

5. Briefings – The Four E’s
• Engage
– Capture the audience
– Create the learning effective learning
environment
• Evaluate
– Assesses participant’s knowledge base
– Creates group equity
• Establish
– Give scholars a personal interest
• Educate
– Opens the door for continuing education and the
next stage, experience

6. Tips to Briefing
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Talk Time Analysis
Eye contact should be on group not you
If co-facilitating rotate facilitators
Remember the learning modalities
Paraphrase (Answers and Questions)
Positive reinforcements – specific praise
Change environment
Use different sensory adjectives

7. Debriefing – Higher Level
Thinking
• Bloom’s Taxonomy
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Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
• Kolbe
– What
– So What
– Now What

8. Tips to Debriefing
• To move up Bloom’s ask more than one
question on each topic
• As the questions get higher, the learner will
need more time to think
• Redirect questions to group
• Don’t be afraid of silence -10 second rule
• It is ok to plant seeds. You do not need to
expect an answer to every question

9. Thank you and Best of Luck!

10. Trick-out My PowerPoint!
This slide deck was originally used in a
presentation to the Association of Experiential
Education International Conference in November
2008.
It is being used as a sample slide deck in a blog
post called “Trick Out My PowerPoint!”
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