Session: 2. Assessing group resources
Total Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Objectives:
* To identify the skills, knowledge, and experience of
participants and trainers
* To discuss ways in which the group's skills and
knowledge can be used in this program
Materials: Newsprint and felt-tip pens.
Procedures: Step 1. (5 minutes) Review the objectives and
procedures For the session.
Step 2. (5 minutes)
Ask the participants to briefly discuss
the value of a group resource assessment.
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Trainer Notes
Draw on the participants' experiences in working with artisans
in small-scale development projects. |
Step 3 (10 minutes)
Have the group brainstorm a list of
interview questions which could help assess the participants'
skills,
knowledge and experience.
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Trainer Notes
* To provide focus during the brainstorm, post the key points to
be included in the interview: skills, knowledge.
* The resulting questions should be consolidated or pared down
so that the list does not exceed 4-5 open-ended questions the will stimulate
conversation.
* In this session, the emphasis is not only on those skills,
etc. which relate directly to Blacksmithing, but on any resources one might have
which would help the group. |
Step 4. (5 minutes)
Explain the interview format.
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Trainer Notes
The Interview Format
Step 1 (5 minutes)
Find someone in the group whom you don't
know well and move to a comfortable location.
Step 2 (30 minutes/15 minutes per person)
Interview one
another using the list of questions as guidelines. Jot down brief notes as the
conversation proceeds.
Step 3 (10 minutes)
On a clean sheet of paper, write down in
legible, paragraph form the information you have gathered from your partner.
Step 4 (5 minutes) Share the interview sheets with your partner
and make any modifications or additions.
Step 5 (10 minutes)
Post the sheets on the wall and walk
around the room scanning the other interview reports.
* If the training group is a small one, an option to the written
reports would be to have the pairs interview each other, reconvene the groups,
and ask each participant to describe his/her partner. |
Step 5. (60 minutes)
Have the participants carry out the
interview procedure.
Step 6. (5 minutes)
Reconvene the group and facilitate a
short discussion of the participants' overall impressions of the resources that
exist within the group.
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Trainer Notes
During the discussion, point out a number of the identified
skills which are particularly useful/necessary in blacksmithing (e.g.,
carpentry, construction, auto/farm mechanics, welding). |
