The iDiscovery Facilitator
The iDiscovery professional development experience is designed to be a seminar a dialogue among educational professionals. Each iDiscovery workshop consists of a group of educators interacting to promote and support a specific reform-based educational program. This group of educators includes 12-20 participants and one participant/leader the Facilitator.
The role of the Facilitator encompasses multiple responsibilities.
- Yearly participation in a daylong Facilitator Preparation PD is required.
- The Facilitator will learn how to prepare and manage the Web classroom.
- The Facilitator will be guided in preparation for and management of a participant orientation meeting.
- The Facilitator will begin to prepare the Web classroom for his/her participants.
- Within the workshop, and in response to the assignments, the Facilitator must function in a dual role as both model participant and leader.
- As model participant, the Facilitator models appropriate response to the assignments and participants, and models interactive participation in the dialogue throughout the window of each assignment.
- As leader, the Facilitator conducts timely formative monitoring and assessment, and essential remediationthrough questioning, probing, challenging, encouraging in order to promote a deeply thorough, thoughtful, and constructively focused professional dialogue.
- As leader, the Facilitator evaluates the participants success in responding to the assignment criteria and grading rubric, and addresses non-participation issues.
- Beyond the workshop, the Facilitator communicates with the Assistant Director and the Project Coordinator of iDiscovery
- As a participant in a Facilitating Workshop, the Facilitator responds to a series of assignments first to prepare his/her Implementing (Participant) workshop, then to report on the progress of the preparation and the completion of assignments to the Assistant Director.
- The Facilitator communicates routinely with the Project Coordinator about specific workshop or participant concerns.
- Compensation for the Facilitator is in multiple forms.
- The Facilitator earns three fee-waived graduate semester credits in Educational Leadership from Miami University.
- The Facilitator is awarded a $1000 stipend.
- Most important is the experience gained through participation in and leadership of a professional dialogue among educators.