Using training toys in your sessions

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Abstract

No one ever said that training session have to be boring! Mosaica's newsletter, Training Briefs, presents reasons for incorporating toys such as Play-Doh, pipe cleaners, and crayons into various aspects of your training sessions.

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Issue

Creating a positive and inclusive training atmosphere can be achieved with innovative and fun approaches.

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Action

Why toys? Because toys
  • Create a fun and relaxed environment

  • Stimulate creativity and involvement

  • Meet the needs of diverse learners

  • Rechannel doodling habit

  • Serve as rewards, reminders and incentives

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Context

Using toys to teach addressses the "how" of training sessions - the training delivery approach and process.

Mosaica: The Center for Nonprofit Development and Pluralism, provides organizational assessments, strategic and resource development planning, fundraising capacity building, restructuring support, and assistance in financial management and oversight. Other services include board development, program design and delivery, personnel and systems management, volunteer activities, community involvement and community building, community organizing and advocacy, program evaluation, and coalition building.

The goal of Mosaica is to bring together individuals with diverse voices and experience to create an organization with a set of common values. Mosaica was established out of a commitment to social justice and a belief that within the United States and throughout the world, societies that strive for democracy, human rights, peace, individual opportunity, and pluralism must be built and maintained from the bottom up—community by community, group by group—with the active involvement of nonprofit organizations and a strong independent sector. Mosaica helps strengthen nonprofits so they can provide high quality services and advocacy in a sustainable, well-run fashion that supports communities.

 

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Citation

Mosaica's Training Briefs. Washington, D.C.: Corporation for National and Community Service, no. 11, (December 1998).

Training Briefs were produced by Mosaica under Cooperative Agreement #98CADC009 with the Corporation for National and Community Service during July of 1997 through October of 1999.

 

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Posted On

August 28, 2001

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For More Information

EnCorps
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
101 SW Main Street
Portland, OR 97204
Phone: 877-250-1615

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Resources

See Using Training Toys in Your Sessions for more information and the activity "Values Clarification with Play-Doh."

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Related sites

Starting Strong: A Guide to Pre-Service Training

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