Reflecting experiences and practicing exercises
InstructionsReflecting experiences and practicing exercises
This material is part of the VIRT2UE train the trainer program and is meant for trainers and trainees involved in the training.
You need to have a background in research (i.e. be employed as researchers) or be a trainer/educator/teacher who has had experience in research in the past.
What is this about?
In the second (face to face) group session trainees get together again for the last time and reflect back on the content of the training and on their experience in facilitating the exercises. In particular during the session trainees:
1) Reflect on their understanding of a virtue-based approach to research integrity and on how to enable a virtue ethics approach in people’s ways to think about and do research.
2) Practice again facilitating (part of) the exercises and address doubts and questions that might have arisen during the time in between the two face-to-face sessions.
3) Revise and reflect on the specific goals of the exercises and their contribution to the overall goals of the training.
5) Reflect on the possibility to adapt the training materials according the requirements of their own work context.
6) Lear how to find all relevant materials and support for organizing a training themselves.Reflect on your role as facilitator
Discuss issues you (might) have encountered during the exercises with other participants and reflect on your role and experience in facilitating the exercises. Make sure the specific goals of the exercises and their contribution to the overall goals of the training are clear to you. In particular reflect on the virtue-based approach to research integrity which is put forward in this training and on how to enable a virtue ethics approach in people’s ways to think about and do research. You might consider asking clarifying questions to make sure you have a good understanding of the approach and are able to use the same approach in training others.
Practice (parts of) the exercises again
Practice again (elements and variations of) the exercises supervised by a trainer. Discuss with your trainers and with the group the possibility to adapt the training materials.
Remarks
What is this about?
In the second meeting trainers wrap up the training,foster a reflection on the experiences of trainees with the exercises and supervise trainees in practicing selected exercises again. The goals of the session are:
1) Trainees understand what a virtue-based approach to research integrity issues entails and know how to enable a virtue ethics approach in people’s ways to think about and do research.
2) Trainees practice again facilitating (part of) the exercises and address doubts and questionsthat might have arisen during the time in between the two face-to-face sessions. Encourage them to facilitate exercises in the way they did in their own work setting and ask them to elaborate on possible modifications in the structure or steps of the exercises.
3) Ideally, trainees leave the training feeling confident in facilitating the exercises.
4) Trainees know the specific goals of the exercises and their contribution to the overall goals of the training.
5) Trainees are aware of the possibility to adapt the training materials according the requirements of their own work context.
6) Trainees know how to find all relevant materials and support for organising a training themselves.Address doubts and questions that might have arisen during the time in between the two (face-to-face) group sessions
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Provide feedback on facilitation
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Restate the overall goals of the training
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Explain where to find and how to adapt materials
Based on your experience and expertise in facilitating and using the face-to-face exercises, you discuss with trainees the competence level and learning needs of the target group they will work with, what are things that the target group would like to discuss more in-depth, and how to implement those issues in the exercise(s).
Address certification
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