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to help potential facilitators self-evaluate online facilitation skills and articulate PD growth goals

help REBUS staff plan support for facilitators while facilitating the textbook success program

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All items on the right illustrate what the curriculum looked like after curriculum changes to its delivery in 2022. (program outcomes were articulated more clearly to inform session outcomes; each session was enhanced through one specific, topic-relevant team activity)

My suggestions for a more complete overhaul include:

ensure a more democratic and responsive way of delivering the live sessions to allow for sufficient team building, team discussion, facilitator direction when prompted, team active planning, etc.

a smoother flow between all the different technologies used

curate all materials in a user-friendly way (no separate slides, handouts, templates, etc.)

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Including updated session goals visualization of how session goals align with program outcomes, an updated publishing cycle, interactive and participatory session activities, homework activities to keep projects on track, explicit embedding of DEI into all parts of the curriculum,

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+ include all necessary links
+ detailed instructions for in-session and homework activities
+ Homework activities to ensure smooth progression through the program
+ Self-Reflection checklist
+ updated Additional Resources section
+ Academic References included

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Facilitation and materials model practices of accessible, equitable, and inclusive teaching

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Facilitation and materials model practices of accessible, equitable, and inclusive teaching

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+ improved design, including visual prompts

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Explicit embedding of DEI into all parts of curriculum

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Explicit embedding of DEI into all parts of curriculum

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Kaitlin's doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TcCjAevzncd82vWqBOmAaSz8yS89390Shtoj3Wj6UZY/edit?usp=sharing
Reciprocity and humility
Idea: create designated sharing threads in cohort fori
and include certain activities throughout where participants are prompted to actively share back

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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1 familiarity with #OE(R)
2 + 3 expectations in program

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Note to instruct everybody to bookmark the url to the cohort forum space as it allows:
-to access all session materials
-communicate with everybody including the facilitator and Rebus staff

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Note that sessions 2+3 will prepare for TSP session 1 + 2

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Team members and assigned roles

anticipated (grant) project timelines

contact details for all involved organising and support parties

if grant initiative - then vision/ mission, etc.

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move away from generic-student audience to learning more about your unique students and their specific interests/ needs
probe participants through an investigative activity:
involve Instructional Designer in introducing profiling

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Conduct Kick-off prior to program launch

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Conduct Kick-off prior to program launch

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Slide deck used
and Orientation package shared with participants

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mandatory for TSP Phase 1 Sessions 1-3, then on demand

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either written or live Zoom meetings

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create opportunities for joint planning, debrief, etc.

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to provide feedback and formal letter for promotion based on observation foci: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Ngg5zHrhW_pxKfwquqKknLMKFHLip2LYo5Wmb83-wU/edit?usp=sharing

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[2022] Observation and Feedback Foci for TSP Facilitation

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-You will read your cohort's feedback. Please reflect on what you read with an open mind. What is useful to you personally, what applies to Rebus, what to the grant organisers?

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share your reflections on cohort feedback

discuss modifications to program

share your personal development goals for Phase 2 and how we can support you

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Rebus issues formal letter to you for PD purposes

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Rebus issues formal letter to you for PD purposes

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[Lesson Plan] Session 5: Meeting Plan 1:1

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Rebus checks in with participants and communicates response to you

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Rebus checks in with participants and communicates response to you

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Facilitator and Rebus plan themed cohort sessions depending on participants needs

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Facilitator and Rebus plan themed cohort sessions depending on participants needs

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Note that the final session will be a book launch rehearsal party, where all teams share some of their release communication and present book in current state

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Facilitators and Rebus plan Phase sessions jointly

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Facilitators and Rebus plan Phase sessions jointly

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Facilitators design sessions in accordance to cohort needs In preparation meetings, ideas can be discussed with other facilitators and solutions found for anticipated challenges. It is important to do following after session:

IMPORTANT: Everybody write brief session summary in facilitator forum including your overall session impressions, cohort trends, team challenges or questions

IMPORTANT: Everybody update their spreadsheet with cohort-relevant information that you can refer back to throughout the remaining months

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Cheat sheet to guide your 1:1 interactions

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Cheat sheet to guide your 1:1 interactions

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Completed in Session

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Please complete Facilitator Feedback survey

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Please complete Facilitator Feedback survey

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Please share with us your feedback on and let us know your suggestions for improvements

facilitation experience

curriculum

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-You will read your cohort's feedback. Please reflect on what you read with an open mind. What is useful to you personally, what applies to Rebus, what to the grant organisers?

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share your reflections on cohort feedback

discuss modifications to program

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Final TSP Facilitator Feedback Interview (60 min)

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Final TSP Facilitator Feedback Interview (60 min)

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Please share with us your experience facilitating TSP for a full year.

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Weekly sessions are currently cut down to an hour over 90 min as previously. 

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Weekly sessions are currently cut down to an hour over 90 min as previously. 

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Note to skip first intro slides and assign as homework people can look at prior to session. Dedicate a max of 15 minutes to lecture of content and then have teams move into the session activities with their teams

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Hire diverse experienced educators/ facilitators for educational programming

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Hire diverse experienced educators/ facilitators for educational programming

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to allow for individualised delivery of programming, dependent and adaptive to client needs, modelling of democratic, student-centred pedagogy, and granting the educator freedom to find self-expression.

Being a TSP graduate isn't the most important qualification when wanting to support unique cohorts in pedagically sound ways.

Require that teaching staff create their own lesson plans based on program and session goals, and grant freedom to choose methods that best ensure engagement of all participants all throughout and also suit the educator's style.

To guarantee smooth and consistent deliveryof educational programming, consider hiring permanent teaching staff over rushed short-term contract decisions.

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Don't split programming into content delivery and practical work

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Don't split programming into content delivery and practical work

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Pair theory/ planning with practice to take participants through publishing cycle in most useful ways. Instead of splitting the planning of from the practical work, work more slowly with people all throughout, like two meetings a month.

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Employ multimodal ways to engage participants in the process of negotiating new concepts, learning about interesting examples, and familiarising themselves with the essentials of a particular stage.

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in the design and delivery of TSP programming to build closer relationships between those creating content and those supporting.

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Update the curriculum frequently and allow for sufficient time to plan curriculum revisions. This is more easily done when all facilitators have agency over how they deliver the programming.

involve former clients in  the redesign or new design

build diverse revision team and grant room for creativity and experimentation

Schedule curriculum revisions into annual work plan

Design (a)synchronous activities that model innovative teaching practices and help participants truly and more independently engage with topics, do preparatory steps and reflect on own positionality/ experience/ needs, etc.

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Continue with committed and consistent facilitator support because trust doesn’t scale!

Continue with frequent check ins with organisers and support staff

Provide suggested timeline to organisers for modification

Use guide as program text and add important theoretical or other pieces that were formerly part of lectures but are not yet in the text

Best merge the guide with explicit pedagogical devices that guide participants in their thematic work through the program, so eventually the guide can be the central hub for the entire program from where everything flows (This way the guide can become a model text for an innovative OER used for teaching)

Change name of program to better represent its fully fledged support (an easy change could be OER Success Program)

Absolutely paramount: hire BIPOC with teaching experience to be involved in future curriculum revisions and trust the decisions that the involved teaching professionals make

Require that your facilitator supporter teach the program themselves to inform future curriculum revisions, inspire their own teaching practice, experiment and model expertise to other sessional staff

Explore and implement use of user-friendly open source software for teaching to model ethical use of technology and keep those joining in white-supremacist states safe (e.g. Mattermost for a forum, Blue button/ Jitsi/ Whereby/ Wonder, etc.  for video conferencing, etc.) Consider collaborating with the BC ETC technology collaborative (What we have done with our forum and Rebus homepage falls under: Open without consent is violent and increasingly dangerous too

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This tool isn't really needed all that much to warrant the annua fee. I would suggest using Zoom polling and open-source solutions

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Phase 2: Monthly sessions alternate bw 1:1 15/ 20 min and 60 min cohort meetings

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Phase 2: Monthly sessions alternate bw 1:1 15/ 20 min and 60 min cohort meetings

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Facilitators design sessions in accordance to cohort needs
In preparation meetings, ideas can be discussed with other facilitators and solutions found for anticipated challenges. It is important to do following after session:

IMPORTANT: Everybody write brief session summary in facilitator forum including your overall session impressions, cohort trends, team challenges or questions

IMPORTANT: Everybody update their spreadsheet with cohort-relevant information that you can refer back to throughout the remaining months

See the following planning documents for ideas
Oct 22
July M1/ 2
Feb 22

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Kaitlin and Apurva are invited as instructors to take over the course from me.

the course can currently be used by a maximum of 10 people at the time (free version)

student enrolment key is https://app.eduflow.com/join/FE77VZ

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Give your students a better feedback experience with Eduflow! An online platform that makes peer review easy and anonymous.

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Reflections from Feb 22 cohorts
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pnhOeivk3s62OSqGqbZVyjBTtamThDENhNXu0KdZV5A/edit#heading=h.e7909s5waqd9

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Reflections from Feb22 (Mass + CUNY) TSP Cohorts