What Formators Need to Know

How Adults Learn Best.

How to Make Classes More Engaging

Once Upon a Time…There was a Formator Director who had a new class ...What to do?

There was a Formation Director who needed some new IDEAS …Where

to find them?

▪Turn to your Partner on the Left Side

▪Discuss: (1 minute)

▪How is teaching adults different from teaching children.

▪ Traits of the Adult Learner

▪ Learning Styles & Strategies

▪ Ways to Get Members Involved

▪ Feedback

▪ Facilitating a Class

▪ Motivating Adults

▪ Few Techniques

▪ Gain Knowledge –▪ Francis – the Order – the Charism

▪ Develop Our Spiritual Life & Relationship with God

▪ Discernment – Is there a vocation?

▪ Relevancy to Our Life

Self Directed

Less Open Minded

Practical & Result Oriented

Use Personal Experience as

Resource

High Expectations

Multi-level Responsibilities

What we rememberis in direct portion to the amount of involvement

Reading

Hearing Words

Seeing

Watching a movie, Seeing an exhibit, Watching a demonstration, Seeing it

done on location

Participating in discussion, Giving a talk

Doing a dramatic presentation, Simulating the real experience, Doing the real thing

After two weeks,

We tend to remember….

........................……………..10% if what we READ

…………………………..……..….20% of what we HEAR

…………………….…..……..30% of what we SEE

…………...50% of what we See & HEAR

………….…..70% of what we SAY

…..……90% of what we DO

ACTIV

E

PASSIV

E

(Based on the research of Edgar Dale, originator of “The Cone of Learning”)

Visual

Auditory

Kinesthetic -

Tactile

We all learn

differently

However, we all

use most of these

styles - most of us

have 5 senses

▪ SAY – “Let me DO it.”

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▪ Say – “Tell me.”

My

Fair

Lady

Get members involved in their learning

▪ Allow learners to experience what they are learning

▪ Have them show you that they are involved, learning, thinking

Discussions

Similarities & Differences

Games, Table Tops

Experiments

Write on Charts, Boards

Summarizing

Teams – Cooperative Learning

Reports or Presentations

Demonstrations, Simulations

Checking for Understanding

▪ Non-verbal ways to see if your group is with you.

▪ Ask their opinions, ask an open-ended question

▪ Thumbs Up (Agree)

▪ Thumbs Down (Disagree)

▪ Thumbs Sideways (No Sure)

▪ OR..

▪ Stand/Move by the Poster you feel that is more like you

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Son

Holy Spirit

Father

CIOFS

NAFRA

Juan de PADILLA

St. Anthony Fraternity

Friars Minor

Capuchins

Francis

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Series 1 Series 2 Series 3

Graphic organizers are tools that can

be used to visualize and organize

information.

Graphic organizers are often used as

prompts for learners to fill in the blanks

Graphic organizers provide many

benefits to learners who use them

Helps learners structure their thoughts,

write a report or complete a project

▪Chunking is breaking large amounts of information into smaller teachable sections.

▪ It helps people remember and assimilate information.

▪Smaller bits are easier to process

▪ Give everyone several POST ITs (or small sheets of paper

▪ Break reading into sections

▪ Read and draw a picture of what each section means

▪ Put the papers together in sequence and put it in front of them on the table (you can gage their progress)

▪ Some or all can post their storyboard on the wall/board

▪ Have some people read their story from their storyboard

▪ Result is the most people will be able to recall most of the information in a short amount of time

1181/2 Francis’

Birth

1202 Francis taken

prisoner in Crusades

1203 Ransomed by

Father

1204 Participates in Crusade but vision

directs him to return

home

1205 Francis’ Conversion Cross of San

Damiano speaks to him

1206 Francis returns

clothing to Father in front of bishop

1208 Francis understands

he is to Rebuild

Church by teaching the

Gospels

1209 Francis founded the Friars Minor with blessing of the Pope

1212’ Francis ad Clare

found the Poor Clares

1221 Francis founded the

3rd Order which

includes Lay People

1224 Francis receive

Stigmata

1225 Francis write

Canticle of the Sun

1226 Francis died on

October 3 at 44 years of

age

1228 Francis is Canonized

1980 Francis named

Patron of Ecologist

Many members have Smart Phones today.

Text them a question and have them text you back either as an ENTRANCE Ticket (while you do housekeeping tasks) and to start an initial discussion

OR as an EXIT Ticket to get out of your class!

Peace with you,

Carl Candidate,

Tomorrow, meet me at

the door and tell me -

What is so special

about August 2?

– Fanny Formator

Hi Fanny,

August 2 is the day

You can gain the

Portiuncula

Indulgence, right?

Rock On, Carl

OR as an EXIT Ticket to

get out of your class!

WRITE A TEXT

NAME 1 THING YOU

LEARNED TODAY

_________________

HOW DID YOU DO

TODAY AND DO YOU

HAVE ANY

QUESTIONS?

____________________

SEND ME AN EMOJI

EXPLAINING HOW

YOU FEEL ABOUT

BEING A SFO!

REACHING THE

YOUNGER GENERATION

Fannie,

I am confused!

Can we talk?

Carl Candidate

Hi Carl,

Let’s meet

after the gathering

Peace,

Fannie Formator

T

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▪ EXIT TICKET - Ticket to leave” is an ideal way to end a class.

▪ It can serve a number of purposes:▪ Provide feedback to the formator about the class;

▪ Require the student to do some synthesis of the day’s content;

▪ Challenge the student with a question requiring some application of what was learned in the lesson.

▪ The Exit Ticket should require only a brief time to respond to, certainly no more than five minutes, but perhaps only 1-2 minutes.

▪ The “ticket to leave’ is not intended as a major task, rather, a quick summarizer having one of the purposes listed above.

▪ The responses should not be part of formal assessment, but it can provide valuable feedback to the teacher.

FeedbackParticipation Focus Prompt

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AND IT AFFECTS OUR BEHAVIOR!

The Bucket List

From Fr. Scully’s

Seed Sown

“GOSPEL TO LIFE”

▪ Use Humor

▪ Accommodate busy schedules

▪ Incorporate Technology

▪ Provide Opportunity for choices

▪ Accommodate group interactions

▪ Challenge learners with games

▪ Put a face on it – real life situations

▪ Add Suspense – Don’t give out everything your lesson is about in the beginning –Give an overview with some interesting points. Keep them listening

• Build trust

• Model positive attitude

• Give supportive

feedback

• Stick to a schedule

• Create a “parking lot”

for deviations off topic

• Ask open-ended

questions

• Respect every member’s

feelings

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

▪“…When members walk out of the room, they take Franciscan Spirituality with them”

▪ ~ Sr. Josephine Boyles OSF

Today, we have discussed:

▪ Traits of the Adult Learner

▪ Learning Styles▪ Ways to Get Members Involved▪ Getting Attention & Feedback▪ Facilitating a Class▪ Motivating Adults▪ A Few Techniques & Resources

▪ Your task is to Motivate and Teach about Francis’

special relationship with God through his unique

way of following the Gospels.

Now, ask yourself –

▪

▪ What is it that motivates you and makes you

passionate about being Franciscan.

That is your special task, to bring that same

passion to your formation classes

Start by doing what is necessary

Then what is possible

And suddenly,

You are doing the impossible.

~ St. Francis of Assisi

And change the world!