ACTIVITY 2. PARTICIPANTS EXPECTATIONS AND CONCERNS - Activity: 1 hour

After introductions the trainer will facilitate a session on participants expectations and concerns.

OBJECTIVES

1. To allow participants to express any feelings which could prevent them from fully participating.

2. To enable trainers to adapt the programme if necessary.

3. To enable participants to be clear about the programme so that they do not have unrealistic expectations.

4. To encourage a feeling of participation and solidarity and reduce potential hostility or fear.

5. To arrange reporting of the training.

METHOD

1. All participants to form groups of three or four and discuss their expectations of the course, listing them on paper under the following headings:

a) HOPES: what they hope to get out of the course.

b) FEARS: what they hope will not happen, or they fear may happen.

c) CONTRIBUTIONS: Each person brings some special experience, certain skills and aptitudes, give these examples to the groups and encourage everyone to identify their own contribution in the process of learning.

2. Put the lists up on the wall and ask them to report back, first each group’s hopes, then each groups fears, then their contributions.

3. Go through each presentation and explain any which may not be met, and why, in each case.

4. Go through the programme and explain how much flexibility there can and cannot be in timing the sessions and meals and breaks.

5. Ask the group of participants to select a small monitoring team, which remains the same throughout the course. Explain that the group will discuss and report back to the trainer or organisers:

a) Is training content appropriate, relevant, comprehensive, pace too fast or too slow?

b) Process: How are the group dynamics, is everyone getting a chance to contribute?

c) Practicals: such as food and accommodation.

TEACHING METHODOLOGY COURSE-TIMETABLE

WEEK 1

WEEK 2