Is It Managing or Controlling?
Staff Development Guide
Training Situation: Meeting (small group)
Length: 20 minutes
Objective: Participants will compare management versus control in order to positively manage groups for learning.
Agenda:
- Comparison of management vs control – 15 minutes
- See the skill in action – 5 minutes
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Watch the activity overview video. This video shows staff facilitating the activity featured in the skill video.
As you watch the skill video below, think about these questions:
- What attention-grabbing strategies did you see the staff using in this video?
- What positive statements did staff use that kept youth together and engaged?
- If you were leading this activity, what would you do differently? What would you do the same?
Now that you’ve watched the video, reflect on what you saw.
- What strategies do you use in your program to keep youth together when doing a group activity?
- How did youth respond to the strategies used?
- What is it important to encourage youth to work together when doing STEM?
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