Learning Communities/Challenge Course Facilitation Training Homework
This
document contains the reading and viewing assignment that I typically
give the participants when I teach a class on building community in the
classroom or facilitating a challenge course. It includes some videos to
view that can be found on the web, and more importantly, the pages that
are to be read in Journey Toward the Caring Classroom by Laurie Frank and/or Facilitating the Experience: Mastering the Art and Science of Group Dynamics by the Washington State University Extension 4-H Adventure Education staff.
I
believe that reading and comprehending these pages will give the reader
a good basic foundational understanding of the learning communities
concept. Without this foundation, learning communities is just a bunch
of fun activities. With understanding, the activities can be facilitated
in such a way that a group will move to a higher level of functioning.