Remember: We are here to practice the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in this course.
The purpose of each agenda is to create the ideal environment for this practice to occur & to drive the progress of the group in this direction.
See creating an agenda for more on how we plan to use Agendas to accomplish these goals.
In PLUS, we will focus on using Verb Based Agendas.
Some key features that make Verb-Based Agendas useful are that they:
- Incorporate a variety of both Methods & Course Topics (SEE .... effective questioning? things to try? etc)
- Rely on clear "verb phrases" for Agenda to be written on board
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- Kelsey: should we estimate times for activities? or a percentage split, like marking "after half the study group time has elapsed, you should be here" ? **KATE: we can include timing cues but we should all be sure not to worry about them too much. When designing agendas it is definitely a good idea to think about timing, especially since Time Management is one of the things we focus on during Preceptor observations, but everyone should be clear that those are general guidelines to help pace the group and it's totally okay if they take longer/shorter than expected. It could be really helpful for SPs to get feedback from their Preceptors about how accurate those timing expectations are but there are a lot of other things to talk about too so it would just depend on each group of preceptors.
In crafting your VBA, we are going to think of the process like a Now that we know what we want each agenda to accomplish, let's get to business! Now, what skills and materials do you need to carry out your wonderful plan?
After setting up the backbone for each agenda, you are then ready to write the study group activities. Planning for each study group to last about an hour and a half, you want to include enough items to fill up the time but also leave some buffer room for extra questions, etc. Every class may be a little different, depending on how involved the types of activities need to be but you will probably find that each group can cover an average of 3-5 activities per group.
For each activity, try to include any combination of the following:
- Learning Objective: What lecture topics you need to study.
- Number of Students: individually, pairs, small groups, whole group, etc
- Facilitation Method:
- Approximate time:
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