AS: Co-Facilitation Benefits by Ty McAlmont

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Supporting one another

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Taking each other strengths

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Bringing in new perspectives, which can lead to more effective delegation

Uplift each other, back each other up

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For ex. One person being athletic and another person can be artistic

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Pick up where your partner can’t

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Being good with math

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Compromising, taking turns

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No disagreements in front of the students

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help make decisions, offer advice. learn from each other

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Prevents burnout

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More support
Opportunity for individual attention
Passing out materials
Keeping the flow of the agenda
Safety
Power positions
Multitask

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We all can save energy by delegating tasks.

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Balancing teammate capacities

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cofacilitation helps conserve energy, prevent rushing

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Giving the task to the person whichever is easy for them.

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Support system

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everyone has different strengths, figure out where everyone will be best.

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Delegating tasks based on strengths

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Supporting each other to lighten the load

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everyone has something different to bring to the group

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Maximizing the diverse experiences that people bring

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diverse learning and teaching techniques

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acm unique life experiences

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acms utilizing different skills

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acms working in situations that utilize their strengths

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Different strengths
Ex: Academic vs. physical
Biases could have support in a different aspect.
Patience for kids on different aspects. Ex: math vs ELA
Good communication makes it so a child can lean on all corps members, but can feel supported.
When a child looks at diverse team, we open a new perspective and positive interactions with people of a different race, religion, social background, etc.

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Using expertise/ knowledge to create new activities and clubs for students

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Being empathetic and compassionate

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Having energy prevents people from acting sharp with students

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Makes the work more flexible.

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Allow others to pick in areas you lack

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IT supports

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Always frontload!

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So one team member doesn’t feel they are “carrying” the team

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Preventing burnout

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Positive environment.

Prevent burnout

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Conserving energy

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Sharing roles and responsibilities helps divide out the workload and you don’t over stress anyone. You only make a person do as much as they can handle

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Knowing the part you play in that dynamic

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Finding the Balance of workload and responsibility to work effectively

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The quietly disruptive kids aren’t always given as much attention as the loudly disruptive ones

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Helps the team feel welcome and more amped to serve

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Encourage teammates and be open to compromising to get the right solutions

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Small breaks

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Identifying each other’s strengths and weaknesses and planning out tasks and responsibilities based on that knowledge

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help each other

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Considering your cofacilitator on days they aren't feeling the best

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Discuss beforehand so each person can compliment each others strengths

Mutual support

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Since you’re working in a dynamic team you can cover each other in a more personal level and be there for one another.

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since everyone will be utilizing their strengths, this only makes the project more effective when completed

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Pacing yourself, making sure to have a manageable workload to avoid burnout

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Facilitating and formulating creative activities/problems that have no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer

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Covering bathroom break

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preserve your energy as well as others

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Having time where one person is more active and engaging while the other is still engaged but maybe taking a break

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Leaning on each other( partnerships aren’t always 50/50, some days 30/70, other days 45/55)

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Chunk the work

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Good listener, empathetic

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Implementation of known, new skills and techniques.

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relieving eachother of specific duties, having each others back

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Empathize with each other

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Acm's using their skills and bringing them into the classroom for new clubs.

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Allows people to do things they might not have been able to accomplish otherwise by using another persons expertise

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Divvy it up

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allows for other experiences to be acknowledged

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Could avoid incidents.

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Making lesson plans more dynamic, actively engaging

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Being able to have the same amount of energy throughout the day

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Listen to each other

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Being equitable which may mean different things on different days

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Helps minimize burnout

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allows extra safety precautions

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Having a strong support system

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Avoids diverse problems

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More eyes to prevent accidents (like lifeguards)

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Get to know students

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Understanding the everyone has a life outside and may not always be there 100%

Extra eyes

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Due to having more eyes hands etc there is room for more coverage and room for flexibility due to there being two people.

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Going over safety rules

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Take advantages of skills or background each facilitator has

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Learning from each other to strengthen leadership skills.

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Take time out of each prep to ask how each other are doing

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Using resources and informing students of some they can use, as it is not always known by students.

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The more the better

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Different perspectives on the situation

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being understanding of situations and outside of work dynamics

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allows ACMs to appear as a more organized unit when they’re backing each other up

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Knowing each other strength and weakness

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Helps you to stay calm and stay focused.

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Helps the whole team understand a situation more clearly and advocate for students

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Having an implicit of understanding of when to jump in when Cofacilitator is struggling to find a word, having a moment of brain lag —- and jumping in and natural junctures/not interrupting

making sure there is a uniform mutual understanding of the approach towards students

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Allows people to get the most out of a limited accessibility

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Issues solved more quickly

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Keeps a classroom under control more easily

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advocating for eachother and taking on what you can handle respectively

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leveraging both members unique relationship w the kids