Planning

You, your institution or school and your participants have different preferences and expectations regarding the common learning process. Planning is the art of considering the diversity of stakeholders around a learning and the diversity within a group in all its qualities, while ensuring that all of its parts gain from it.

 

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Planning Essentials

Planning goal, topic, method

We gain more efficiency, transparency and flexibility when making a distinction between the absolute prior goals and the methods we use on the way to achieve these goals.

This is our concrete proposal, how you might start planning a workshop with a goal-content-method matrix.

Didactical Principles

Empowerment is a democratic, respectful and motivating attitude which facilitators share with their participants. This sharing takes place through our conscious reflection of certain didactical principles in planning and conducting a training.

Diversity-Aware Language and Material

Using language is using power. Sharing power and empowering participants linguistical implies to reflect the language and materials you use and to apply it in a diversity-aware way.

 

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Specific Aspects

Helping to plan community work

If we want to encourage the learners to work with and for the communities to initiate the social change, it is good to know the basics of the planning of the community work. Here the characteristics of the phases of planning community work.

Validation and Recognition of Learning Outcomes

Although a lot of outcomes and developments in terms of a gain of competences are not easily to be certified in a formal way, facilitators might use tools that document processes and personal developments.

What's inside this section?

Before

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• My attitude as a facilitator
• Planning
• Organizing

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Planning Essentials

• Planning goal, topic, method
• Didactical Principles
• Diversity-Aware Language and Material

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Specific Aspects

• • Helping to plan community work
  • Validation and Recognition

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