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Session Essentials
4. Use simple, varied activities
5. High 'Active Learning Time'
6. Fair, fun, inclusive behaviours
Expert additions
10. Child collaboration and problem solving
Extra help
At MoF, sessions should be designed around a Problem Statement and activities should be game-based. Some of the 15 minutes of non-active time will be used in drink breaks, giving instructions and demonstrations of how the activity works. These need to be kept to a minimum. The rest of the time should be for:
How do we make this time work best?
When will this work best?
How to include children who don’t usually engage?
Peer learning & facilitating peer learning
We need to work toward a stage where children are comfortable giving feedback to each other, offering help to each other, and asking each other for help. Importantly, we need to work towards this happening without an adult instigating it. This will take time of course, but there are ways in which we can accelerate it:
Collaboration: An example
The session below is one from our Sunday programme, working with 9-11 year olds. The Problem Statements the group had been working on were within the topic of small team defending strategies, such as "How to Defend Patiently", "How and When to Press High", "How to Defend in order to Counter-Attack".
The session in the video was from late in the term when the group had reached a stage of working together to "plan, do and review" game strategies. Scenarios were given to small teams, and time was given to plan a strategy. This type of collaboration and problem solving is a vital part of the MoF programme.
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