Laura led an effective student learning group session where she redirected questions back to the group to answer with minimal input. She was able to sense when the group was struggling and provided subtle hints to guide them in the right direction. Her calm and confident demeanor seemed to put the group at ease, encouraging participation. Her handouts utilized a question format along with matching games, structuring the material while providing breaks from the typical question-answer format. Overall, Laura demonstrated strong facilitation skills and positive group dynamics during her well-structured session.

1. Laura’s Session Observation
Jason Kuhnow
Laura had a very good session style. She made sure to redirect pretty well every
question that she got from the group that she was with. It was good to see as every
question was worked through by the group with really no input from Laura. Opposite to
this Laura did seem to sense when the entire group was struggling and would try to help
them along to the answer with small hints to lead them in the right direction. She was
very calm and confident in her session which I believe transpired to her session
attendees as they too seemed willing to answer the questions that she put forward. She
seemed to have a very good group dynamic as she didn’t need to pull teeth to try and
get answers, which is rare with a first year SLG session. That was something that was
very impressing.
One other thing I really liked was the format of Laura’s handout. It was presented
with questions which allowed the students to work through the material in a structured
way. It also though provided games intermittently such as matching. This allowed for a
break from the typical question and answer handout, and allowed the attendees to have
a fun small break. Overall Laura runs a well structured SLG session and has a very
good group dynamic.