Field of application

Resume / Brief description

The students are given 60 seconds to jot down on paper some responses to an aspect of related to the current session.

Target group

Objectives

• The function of this exercise is solely to get a ‘dipstick’ measurement of the selected topic
• Discover and control understanding of a subject
• Know the problems and open questions of the trainess for clarification
• Evaluation of an event
• Prepare and activate for exchange on experiences (with followed discussion)

Requirements

Material

Time

Material: maybe blank paper or prepared sheet with questions for each participant

Time: 5-30 minutes (depending on implementation; with or without evaluation in plenary at the end)

Implementation - Overview

1. Trainer gives 2-3 questions

2. Trainees respond to it briefly (one minute) by writing their responses down

3. Responses can be collected by trainer and evaluated in the subsequent session (anonymous) or be discussed openly in plenary.

Implementation - Guidelines

If you wish to know what your students learned, you can do the following:

The students can also drop the responses into a box at the front of the class, which the lecture can take to the office afterwards and read the responses to get a sense of what the students have learned, where there might be gaps in their knowledge, what aspects of the teaching practice they are responding to, and so on.

Bearing in mind that the students only have one minute to write a response, might provide prompts like the following:

• Write down the three key things you learned in today's lecture.
• In your own words, tell me what you understand by [insert concept here].
• What was the most confusing point in today's class?
• How useful was the group exercise that we did in class today? Please give details.

A yes or no answer does not help you much, so it is a good idea to

word the question so that it elicits as much detail as possible.

Other possible questions are:

• What questions in regard of the (today's) topic are still unanswered for you?
• What is the most important thing of today's session for you?
• What should be clarified and trained more?
• How do you assess the planning and enrolment of today's session
• What do you remember of last session's topic?
• Define in one sentence,...

Example of application:

In the ACCESS Summer School 2021 one of the applied one-minute-paper exercises was used for individual activation for the topic "learning to learn".

The used questions were:

- What interests me about today's topic? What questions do I have about it?

- What will I do to learn successfully today?

Templates, Graphics for download

Additional format/references

https://www.rochester.edu/college/cetl/faculty/one-minute-paper.html

German:

https://www.peba.kit.edu/downloads/One-Minute-Paper.pdf

Field of application

Resume / Brief description

Target group

(including group size)

Open.

Ideally, the group size is divisible through 2.

Objectives

Requirements

Material

Time

Material:

• Task, e.g. text/article that Person A should read
• Paper/blank Word document for notes of Person B

Time: ~ 30 minutes

• 10 minutes for tandem work
• 20 minutes for evaluation in plenary

Implementation - Overview

Preparation:

1. Trainer/lecturer gives/presents the task
2. Group is sent in tandem groups (2, max. 3, if not equal)

Implementation/Roll-out:

1. Tandem decides who is Person A or B
2. Person A realizes the task given by trainer/lecture and says her thoughts that she has during the exercise out loud
3. Person B notes what Person A says, without taking notes of the task's content itself

Follow-up:

Evaluation of thoughts noted in plenary.

Example of application:

Field of application

Resume / Brief description

This technique of writing and thinking is used to focus on a specific aspect of your writing topic. This promotes concentration and attention. It helps against getting bogged down. It's about letting your thoughts flow on a certain topic within a set time. The important thing is not to censor your thoughts.

Target group

(including group size)

Focus Sprints are ideally suited for anyone who...

• wants to take a more concrete look at individual focal points of content.
• wants to become familiar with certain aspects of the writing topic.
• wants to write down everything about this aspect first.
• wants likes to deal with own thoughts and ideas in writing.

Applicable for individuals or a group. If working with groups, the facilitator needs to decide in which way the results will be shared (or not).

Objectives

• concentrate on one topic at once
• activate and collect all possible thoughts, opinions, memories etc. in regard of that topic
• get focused on the essential

Requirements

Material

Time

Material: Paper & pen

online: WORD document where the participant writes

Time: 5 minutes for writing and 1 minute for evaluating the focus sprint

Implementation - Overview

• Formulate a headline to direct the focus.
• Write down any thoughts that come to mind about this heading.
• Do not pause.
• If you still get stuck or digress, reread the headline. Alternatively, simply copy the headline.
• After four minutes, stop writing.
• Mark keywords and/or statements in the focus sprint that are important and that you want to adopt for further elaboration.

Implementation - Guidelines

1. The facilitator (or the person him/herself) formulate a headline to direct the focus on. This heading can be a question or a quote or a sentence starter.

2. Participants spend five minutes writing down as quickly as possible without pausing - as close as possible to your inner language, exactly as your thoughts form in your head.
While they write down their thoughts, new thoughts arise, which they in turn write down. Then they immediately evaluate the text by reading it and marking everything that is significant. Under the text they then write one key sentence that sums up the most important points.

This will give you other ideas, help you find your core idea and practice a new thinking strategy: Over time you (re)get used to thinking thoroughly, concentrated and purposefully. In doing so, you also set a counterpoint to the fast speed of thinking in everyday working life.

Templates, Graphics for download

www.ik-blog.de/ipp-fuer-das-arbeiten-mit-einem-internen-kommunikationskonzept/