Module 2 Objectives

As the research focus becomes identified by your students, your job now as teachers and facilitators is to step back. Where support is asked, it can be provided, but the aim is that the children will take on the initiative to find out new information. They will need to describe this and find ways of collecting the information. They will need access to the online world, they may want to carry out a questionnaire, they may need to interview or phone people. The aim of this phase is that they carry out their fact-finding missions themselves. 

So our training objectives in this module is for you to be able to help them on this research mission, without playing the lead part… You must be the supporting actor and let them be in the limelight.

So you need to use this module to consider the means by which once again, you can facilitate them to take on a research project. They have already by now debated and discussed the issues and they are close to knowing what they want to learn more about. They may be floundering a little and the topics for their group might be too big or even too narrow. But they will need to focus their research questions quick enough so that they have time to actually carry our the research itself.

So your aim in the module is to reflect on methods and ideas that can help them develop a lazer like focus on their theme and then work as a group to find out the answers to their questions. They will be gradually building up the material that will allow them to produce a research artefact or product. This can be in a wide range of formats, from the creative approach that might involve song, art or drama, or a more traditional approach that focuses on a report, presentation or document, or indeed an ICT based approach where the result is a podcast or a video or sound recording.

For Phase 2 after the first and second session, lesson plans become less useful as the children are now researching using all the time available for the session. Phase 2 is when we want the children to take their own initiative when it comes to the research. So this module will be helping you both to guide them in their research while at the same time promoting their own agency and letting them make plenty of mistakes along the way…

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Training Module 1: Dialogues and Discussion
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Preparation and Planning
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Preparation and Planning
Implementing the Research
Consolidation and Reflection
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Presenting and Sharing Results
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