Facilitation Strategies

Facilitation Strategies

UNF SASS
Summer 2024

Open Ended

Why do we use facilitation strategies?

Facilitation Strategies:
Why Use Them?

• Progress tutoring session

• Reduce awkward silence

• Keep sessions student-led

• Promote independent thinking

Open Ended

What is one facilitation strategy?

Facilitation Strategies:
What are they?

• Wait Time 1

• Wait Time 2

• Sharing of Study Skills

Facilitation Strategies:
Types of Questions

• Probing

• Check for Understanding

• Redirecting

Multiple Choice

You (the SI Leader) ask your students to tell you about the water cycle. No one answers for 20 seconds. You then ask what about the water cycle confuses them the most.

• Redirecting

• Wait Time 1

• Wait Time 2

• Checking for Understanding

Multiple Choice

The SI Leaders asks the students to identify the first president of the United States. A student replies "Abraham Lincoln." The student then pauses for 10 seconds and then replies again "wait, nevermind, it was George Washington."

• Redirecting

• Wait Time 1

• Wait Time 2

• Checking for Understanding

Multiple Choice

SI Leader: "how many facilitation strategies are there?"

Student: "3?"

insert 15 second silence

SI Leader: "how confident are you in your answer?"

• Redirecting

• Wait Time 1

• Wait Time 2

• Checking for Understanding

Multiple Choice

Once in a while, intentionally make mistakes on the board or verbally. If no one notices, probe the group about the

content on the board until they discover the mistake.

• Redirecting

• Wait Time 1

• Wait Time 2

• Checking for Understanding