Intended Outcomes:
- identify the common challenges that other PALSI Leaders are facing
- describe what techniques and strategies can be used to - - tackle some of the major challenges like engaging students and answering their queries etc.
Activities:
- personal sharing of thoughts
- collect PALSI Leaders' feedback
- establish a rapport between and among the PALSI Leaders
- use Think-Pair-Share for ice-breaking
- review the feedback collected in the Training II
- use jigsaw group to engage and learn together some instructional techniques and strategies
----- Team 1 Techniques for Encouraging Participation
----- Team 2 Effective Questioning
----- Team 3 Redirecting Questions
----- Team 4 Preparation
----- Team 5 Closing a session
- Group reports on learning
- Conclusions
2. Intended Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, PALSI Leaders should be able to
identify the common challenges that other PALSI
Leaders are facing
describe what techniques and strategies can be
used to tackle some of the major challenges like
engaging students and answering their queries
etc.
3. Something that occupy my
mind the last couple of week.
Image sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
4.
5. Review
• What do you think about the second PALSI Leader training session?
Rate the usefulness of that session by coloring stars below with 1
star as the least and maximum 7 stars as the most useful.
• What do you think should be included in the PALSI Leader training
sessions?
• How are you? It’s week 11 now. How’s your own study and life at
the university? Rate the satisfaction of your own performance on
learning by coloring the hearts below with 1 heart as the least and
maximum 7 hearts as the most satisfactory.
6. Think Pair Share
• Share with the one sitting next to you.
Two in one group to talk about your
ratings.
• Share a little bit more on the issues you
are facing which affects your satisfaction
on your learning performance.
• From the conversation, identify
something good about him or her
that deserves some praise.
9. PALSI Leaders’ Self-perceived Weaknesses
No problem
Venue & resources
Attitude
Language command
Session organisation &…
Engagement
Presentation & Communication
Explanation & answering…
Content knowledge
People skills
0.00% 5.00%10.00%15.00%20.00%25.00%
10. PALSI Leaders’ Self-perceived Weaknesses
No problem
Venue & resources
Attitude
Language command
Session organisation &…
Engagement
Presentation & Communication
Explanation & answering…
Content knowledge
People skills
0.00% 5.00%10.00%15.00%20.00%25.00%
Number of PALSI leaders responded 95 on 11-13 October 2011
11. PALSI Leaders’ Self-perceived Weaknesses
No problem
Venue & resources
Attitude
Language command
Session organisation &…
Engagement
Presentation & Communication
Explanation & answering…
Content knowledge
People skills
0.00% 5.00%10.00%15.00%20.00%25.00%
12. Jigsaw Group
GROUP
1. Please five of you form one
group. Quickly form it with
people sitting nearby. Give
your group a single word
name.
2
2. Assign each group member a
unique number from 1 to 5.
3
13. GROUP MISSION
Mission
You have to draft a manual to enhance the effectiveness of PALSI
sessions, “Practical Instructional Manual for
PALSI Sessions”. It is expected to be used by PALSI leaders
with the most important and practical skills and ideas.
Rundown
• 3-min Group formation & mission identification
• 3-min Learning Team formation
• 10-min Learning & Discussion
• 10-min Report to the Group & Discussion
• 15-min Presentation (each group has only 2-min)
14. LEARNING TEAMS
• Team 1 Techniques for Encouraging Participation
• Team 2 Effective Questioning
• Team 3 Redirecting Questions
• Team 4 Preparation
• Team 5 Closing a session
16. Adapted from Capstick, S., & Fleming, H., (2004), The learning environment of peer assisted learning by The University of Queensland.
Image source: http://www.science.uq.edu.au/pass/docs/other/PASS-Leader-Development-Handbook.pdf
Information source: http://pal.bournemouth.ac.uk/documents/Bnfts%20%26%20Shrtcmngs%20%20of%20PAL3.pdf
18. Workshop Planning
Let’s see what techniques and strategies were
used in this workshop.
• Preparation
• Ice breaking: about me
• Review activity: evaluate & think-pair-share
• Data and information
• Jigsaw group activity: learn, share & engage
• Closing session
19. Pursue excellence, and success will
follow …
Rancho, 3 Idiots (2009)
Today my respect for that idiot shot up.
Most of us went to college just for a
degree. No degree meant no plum job, no
pretty wife, no credit card, no social status.
But none of this mattered to him, he was in
college for the joy of learning, he never
cared if he was first or last.
Farhan Qureshi, 3 Idiots (2009)
