- What's
here
now -
the most practical pages in the Guide to Active
Reviewing
- How
Review? some practical considerations from Playback:
A Guide to Reviewing Activities.
- Rounds
a basic method with some useful variations from Playback:
A Guide to Reviewing Activities.
- Raising
Self-Esteem 13 strategies listed in More
Than Activities
- Reducing
Offending 21 strategies listed in More Than
Activities
- Active
Reviewing: bringing the worlds of talk and
action together. This article describes various active
reviewing methods - basic and advanced - used in work with
managers and young people.
- Feedback
Exercises Giving and receiving personal feedback
- creative and focused methods that have been used
successfully with youth and adult groups.
- Story
making and telling as a reviewing method - 30
variations, limitless applications. This is a 'how to'
extension of Stories in Learning
- Action
Replay
(and Variations) Benefits, Variations, Do you
need an audience? Exaggeration, Reconstruction, Theatre of
the Absurd.
- Evaluation
Methods 40 'end of course' methods and how these
can fit into an overall evaluation strategy. This section
now includes an example of the 'Give
and Take Evaluation Form' that I use during and at the
end of my training workshops. There is also a form for
longer term follow-up. Participants can fill these out
online.
- Reviewing
with
Pictures: how to use ready-made and learner-made
pictures in reviewing. There is now an easy
to
print
version of Reviewing with Pictures
- Reviewing
Success: getting the positive/negative balance
right in reviewing. If you are short of ideas about
reviewing positive/successful experiences, don't be
surprised if your reviewing sessions dwell on negatives.
Find some happy and effective alternatives here.
- Review
Discussions: having a chat or conducting an
interrogation? Whatever your own preferred style might be,
does it suit all the learning styles of the learners you are
reviewing with? Also some tips on dealing with common
problems in discussions.
- Outdoor
Management Development: some questions, some
answers and an index of reviewing tools, articles and
research in outdoor management development.
- Questions:
Questions for Success. More pages about questions - and
another FAQ about reviewing will have links from here.
- Solo
Challenge is an exercise that involves creative
negotiation, imagination, caring, co-operation,
understanding, reviewing and ... challenge! It is suitable
for an established learning group of 6 to 12 people. At
least 90 minutes is needed for this three part exercise.
- Sharing
Learning: Presentations shows how
participants can share their experiences and their learning
with others. Performing describes how (without
special training in drama skills) people can create and
produce a play for performing to an audience. Reports
is about ways of generating and recording learning
experiences and achievements.
- Reviewing
with
Large Groups: Issues, solutions, strategies and
methods.
- High
Speed
Reviewing Techniques: especially useful near the
end of an event when there is so much to reveiw and so
little time ...
- Success
Store: Reviewing Tools for Developing Potential
- Where has all the potential gone?
- How can you raise Self-Esteem?
- What's in your Success Store?
- Quick
Reviews: 25 methods for 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20
minute reviews.
- Reviewing
with
Ropes: 12 methods. Ropes are a handy resource
for active reviewing (objective lines, deciding lines,
position lines, happy charts, body maps, activity maps,
mapping journeys, drawing ...) You need plenty of space
indoors or outdoors.
- Visible
Reflection
Techniques: Why make learning active and visual?
Four methods and their recommended applications:
Q JUMPING: makes contribution levels visible.
Recommended use: for encouraging more balanced
participation.
MOVING MARKERS: makes the quality of the group process
visible.
Recommended use: for monitoring group process while working
on a task.
CHANGING PLACES: seeing yourself as others see you.
Recommended use: for developing empathy and providing
feedback.
REPLAY: noticing what was missed first time around.
Recommended use: for easing conflict and for building trust
and understanding.
- Reviewing
Ropes
Course
Experiences
This article about re-enacting physical activities includes:
- Seven Benefits of Action Replay
- Eight Ways of Staging Action Replay
- Miniature Replays
- Walk-Through Commentary
- Big
Picture Reviewing
- Reviewing
by
Numbers
- What's
to
come - in the 'Tools
for Change' section of Guide to Active Reviewing
- How to Transfer Learning: More
of the material supporting this workshop will be appearing
in Tools For Change. Workshop
details
- Young People at Risk: how the
reviewing of activities (and other experiences) can be of
particular value to young people who are struggling more
than most. (This will be a development of the ideas and
strategies you will find now on the Strategies
page.)
- Flipchart-Free Reviewing: yes
it's possible! A whole culture has built up around the
flipchart - a useful tool, but much overused and
forest-unfriendly. Substitute methods are described.
Learners will enjoy a break from routine - and so will you.
So will the forests.
[This theme was begun in Active
Reviewing Tips 1.3]
- Development Training: the
coming together of the 'training' culture of focused
objectives (with or without flip charts) enhanced by the
'developmental' culture of more open-ended and holistic
purposes. A dynamic combination which gives birth to some
innovative reviewing practices - some of which will be
described!
[There is already a 'development
training' section on this site that includes a
bibliography and definitions, but it does not yet include
'tools'.]
- Reviewing Styles: why have a
range of styles and how do you choose? Examples of the
possibilities and an assessment of the benefits of
developing a more varied reviewing style. [This theme is
frequently explored in Active
Reviewing Tips but has yet to be brought together into
a full article.]
- Appraisal and feedback: one of
the most valuable aspects of reviewing - seeing yourself as
others see you. How to conduct such sessions so that
everyone is a winner.
[Some pages on this theme already exist: Feedback
Exercises, Appreciating
Success and Giving and
Receiving Feedback - including 18 active methods.]
- Research: a research angle on
reviewing - with a practical focus. Experiential learning
theory underlines the importance of reviewing. So why is it
that some people seem to learn or benefit from experience
without (apparently) going through a reviewing process?
[Meanwhile, see Food for Thought
and the research index
- which are more thought-provoking than practical.]
- Designing activities and
programmes: designing reviewing into experience- based
programmes. Carefully designed courses may not create the
kinds of experiences that were predicted. To what extent can
(and should) you design 'experience'? The greater the
unpredictability of the training or work environment, the
greater will be the need for reviewing skills!
[Designing activities and programmes for young people is
described in my first book: More Than
Activities The emphasis on this new page about design
will be about design the reviewing structure for a course
before choosing activities. The principles and examples will
apply to youth and adults courses.]
- Future Topics will
also include:
- involvement and motivation -
techniques for engaging and sustaining interest in reviewing
- using time effectively - time-saving
techniques and the timing of reviews
- issues in reviewing - how to work
through difficult situations, conflict, resistance to
learning etc.
- more evaluation methods - how to
improve and demonstrate the value of experiential learning
provision.
- 'how to review' topics suggested by visitors
to this site
- 'how to review' contributions from visitors
to this site
You can
help - if you like!
[Each of the 3 links below creates a ready-addressed email for
your message.]
- Write to: roger@reviewing.co.uk
to ask for a topic to be included in the 'Tools for Change'
section of this Guide to Active Reviewing. Suggest a
brand new topic or choose one from the
list above.
- Write to: roger@reviewing.co.uk
to offer a topic to be included
- Write to: roger@reviewing.co.uk
to recommend a useful source e.g. a reference to a useful
web page, web site, book, article etc. about reviewing.
Your help in developing the content of this
section and in making links to other practical resources
(about reviewing experience) will be greatly appreciated - by
all visitors to this 'Tools For Change' section of The
Guide to Active Reviewing.
Search
tools
to find more reviewing tools
Since this page was first created there are now more ways of
searching for reviewing tools in The Online Guide to
Active Reviewing and Debriefing.
- THE SEARCH BOX (at the top of
this page)
- ACTIVE REVIEWING
TIPS ARCHIVES
- THE A-Z INDEX
- ADVANCED
SITE
SEARCH where you will find even more options.
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