Group facilitation
Group facilitation is a process where an individual who is agreed upon and acceptable to all of a group’s members intervenes to assist the group in solving problems and making decisions to improve productivity and efficiency but who has no authority to make decisions.
Thus, the teacher assumes the role of a neutral «judge», helping the team of students to solve emerging problems, but not directly, and pushing them to find a way out of the situation.
In the process of such facilitation, its participants discuss problems, become authors of solutions, and they have the desire to take care of the implementation of these solutions and the energy to implement them.
Surgeman, D.A. Reflective Learning: Theory and Practice / D.A. Surgeman, K.L. Doherty et al. – Dubuque: Kendall Hunt, 1999. – 105 p.
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