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Sparkling reflection through curriculum delivery

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Practitioners' Sinkholes: Curriculum Roadblocks

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Obj:

Develop self-awareness through sharing and reflection.

Understand the impact of open-ended questions on facilitating reflection.

Gain insights into their own thought processes and experiences.

Retune:

Pause, breathe, think about your week.

Pick a picture that best describes how your past week has been.

Share with one person who you haven't spoken with this week.

The listener askes only 2 open-ended questions to help the speaker reflect on their sharing.

The questions should encourage the speaker to think deeper about their experience and its significance.

Probing questions:

1. What questions can you ask to help your partner uncover a new insight or perspective about their week?

2. What question can you ask to encourage your partner to think more deeply about their experience and its significance?

Bioenergetic activity

Walk vigorously and then slow down

Move around the room - large steps

Let shoulders and hips be free

Processing questions:

What led you to choose this picture to describe your week?

How does this experience relate to your values or goals?

What did you learn about yourself from this experience?

How did this experience make you feel, and why?

What would you do differently if faced with a similar situation in the future?

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Reflect on practice:

Framework for Reflective Questioning (4As)

Expressive Art & Symbol work to process 4As

Awareness: What are your strength/ challenge in delivering the curriculum?

Analysis: How has that challenge impacted your curriculum delivery?

Alternative: What are possible supports/ ways to address that challenge?

Action: What is the ONE action/ step you will take to overcome that challenge?

Reflecting on the skills promoted at each of the 4As.

E.g. Awareness: Develops empathy, self- awareness and curiosity​

Highlighting on how asking reflective questioning promotes (i) Parental reflective functioning & (ii) Keeping the child in mind.

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Resolute:

One key takeaway (what they appreciate/ one thing that that they will do differently).

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Dathan D. Rush, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, and M’Lisa L. Shelden, PT, Ph.DA Framework for Reflective Questioning When Using a Coaching Interaction Style (View here)

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Role play which allowed us to practice questioning skills

I really like the self-reflection and time dedicated to allowing us KSP to reflect and ponder upon our delivery to parents and ourselves

reflecting with the framework

Content delivery of 4As and activity for self-reflection

4As framework, reflective activity

The 4As guide was very helpful in the sense that I now know how to formulate questions with parents and keep parents focus on the topics.

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It's great so far.

Different ways of questioning to different audiences if parents have low reflective capacity.

Thank you for preparing for such a great session!

It's great already :)

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Retune:

(i) Grounding Activity

5 things you can See

4 things you can Touch

3 things you can Hear

2 things you can Smell

1 things you can Taste

Retune to reflect on the above activity

Reflective questions (based on 4As) in the slide below.

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Reflect on challenges and practical handles:

Difficult situations that KSPs commonly encounter/ not prepared for

Curating curriculum that caters to parent’s comprehension and to obtain their buy-in

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Resolute

Affirmation

Sharing of appreciation to the KSPs who has facilitate the session, what they appreciate.

Transfer of Learning

ONE change they will apply in their practice.

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5-4-3-2-1-coping-technique-for-anxiety

Emerging Minds Australia

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Safe space

Hands on activities

I appreciate the interactive activities Discussion and reflections Interactive discussions

Questions to reflect about and share

The content delivery.

Activity to engage based on practitioner's experiences, content delivery that is well thought out,

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Alrdy very good (:

So far it has been great

More time!

Sharing of resources

More sharing about KSP’s coping on different situations

As the LC always over runs, would it be okay if thr LC is set for 2.5 or 3 hrs instead? At least if it ends earlier it will be better.

Sharing of KSP's tools

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Honoring Strengths in Overcoming Challenges

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Objectives: Foster rapport and cultivate a supportive group culture conducive to collaborative learning.

Retune:

1. Welcome and Introduction: Feel, Distraction, Hope

Individual: Expressive Worksheet

2. Group Norms (Respect), Learning Cultures (Appreciates and Generous)

Paired work: Symbol work (to choose a symbol that represent a learning culture)

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Obj:

1. Acknowledge and celebrate their strength in overcoming challenges.

2. Identify growth areas in group learning for enhances collaboration, communication and knowledge acquisition.

Reflection:

Using Symbol Work & Expressive activity

Honor Strength in Overcoming Challenges

1. My Strength: Reflecting on strength based in the 4 areas.

Relationship building

Responding to strengths

Facilitating Parent-child interaction

Collaboration with Caregivers

2. My Challenge: Share a challenge they faced (with a particular family) and how they have used their strength to overcome the challenge.

Resolution: Strengthening my strength

3. How can I strengthen this strength/ or a strength that I would like to develop?

4. How can the learning circle help me to strengthen/ develop this strength?

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Self Reflection:

1. What did you notice from today? (can be of self/others/both and it can involve any/combi of senses)

2. Rate today's Learning circle.

3. What would help with your learning or engagement?

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Suggested and voted by Mentees

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Being with....(Relationship Matters)

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Being with SELF

Paired activity:

3 things that I am proud of

2 things I am getting better at...

1 thing I am figuring out...

Retune to reflect:

How was the experience ?

How did the facilitator response to your sharing ?

How does that make you feel ?

How do you think parents will response/ feel - from your questions and responses ?

How can you reframe this activity for parents and child (to check on their progress) ?

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Being with ..(Relationship Matter)

Obj:

1. To reflect on our approach and how can we best position ourselves to support the family, meeting them where they're at?

2. What thoughts come to mind when I think about my role...as a "helper" or expert ?

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Identify ONE strategies for growing your capacity for ‘Being with....” that you would like to grow in.

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Check out this Presentation designed by CapD.

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Affirmation. Being with.

A lot of self reflection question to ponder upon

Appreciate the thoughtful questions that invoked deeper thinking on meeting where parents are at

🌹 💐 I reflect on my role in the family's life as a practitioner.

Going through case studies and reminding us to be with parents 💐🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

Tips on how I can better be with parents

Questions that allowed for deeper thinking of role

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Being with families that are reluctant.

Working on achieving family’s goals together with then

Im still processing how I can bring about this change

Applications of the strategies to be with

Being aware of my biases

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Processing feelings with parents

I want to grow in my impact on families

I will try to paraphrase on the things that parents share with me

Learning how to be comfortable with silence.

Grow in being with and holding parents’ perspective and not being an expert/shiny

Cultivating an open mind, open heart, open will

To be more aware of own biases when going in for home visits and to manage own emotions

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Establishing Connection with Challenging Families

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Motivating Parents

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Closing Circle

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Facilitation of Parent- Child Interaction

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Balancing Curriculum & Special Needs

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Objective:

1. To apply (refresh) the use of 4As and OARS

Paired Activity:

Select an image that represents Up/ Down for the week.

Take turns to facilitate sharing

Then, reflect on how 4As and OARs were used

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Objectives:

1. To recognize and reflect on personal challenges in working with challenging families. ​

2. To apply effective communication strategies in working with challenging families

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To reflect/ resolute on:

Affirmation: "I appreciate.."

Transfer of Learning: " I'm processing"/ "I want to grow and try..."

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Objective: To reflect on "Openness to change" to kidSTART Practice. - focus on Parent Child Interaction.

Paired Activity: To process through writing and reflect on:

Aware

What is the change I’m facing or want to embrace?

Analysis

What influences my openness to change ?

What’s the barrier?

Alternative/ Action

What’s one action I can take today ?

Who can support this change ?

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Objectives:

1) To reflect on observed parent-child interactions (PCI) and identify strategies to facilitate positive interactions.

2) To practice applying a PCI observational tool

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To reflect/ resolute on:

Affirmation: "I appreciate.."

Transfer of Learning: " I'm processing"/ "I want to grow and try..."

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PICCOLO Parent Child Interaction

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Establishing Connection with Challenging Families_Draft 2

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Please click on the folder for resources.

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Activity: Motivation Matchsticks

Format: In pairs

Materials: Coloured matchsticks or strips of paper in different colours.

Instructions:

Write down on each of the pieces of paper. One idea per strip.

Blue = What motivates me as a practitioner?

Green = What I think motivates other practitioners?

Red = What demotivates practitioners?

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Main Topic: Parent Motivation - Understanding Barriers, Building Bridges

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Main Topic: Parent Motivation - Understanding Barriers, Building Bridges

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Questions to reflect on:

1. Think of a parent you supported who needed more encouragement. What behaviours or traits did you observe?

2. How can understanding common challenges and behaviours linked to low motivation share our approach to engaging families, and why does this matter?

OARS: Open-ended questions, Affirmations, Reflections, Summarise.

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Thorn(s) I'm processing

Still finding 'solutions for clients'

How to scaffold support for low motivated families

To actively reflect session with families

A good reflection tool, OARS

Bud(s) I want to grow/try:

- I would like to grow deeper into reflective practice with my families

- Doing more of OARS for my sessions

- Using OARS to reflect

- To apply OARS in my sessions more purposefully

- how to use open ended questions more & use OARS

- Applying OARS at work in encouraging lowly motivated families

- Actively summarise the session with families

- Try motivational interviewing

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- Very informative and reflective

- Thank you for sharing an important topic for our everyday job. The case studies and discussions helped a lot too

- *pats my own back* 😁

- Rashidah was clear in her facilitation and able to pick up responses and link and expand on themgood job!!! i’ve a better understanding of how to motivate parents using OARS

- Facilitation of sharing of different case scenarios that are real from the ground :)

- Great sharing & discussion

- It was a very intuitive session