Supporting the Development of Collective Economic Forms in Agriculture
To complement the skills development process, a tailor–made guide material on how best to facilitate learning was developed. The said guide material is actually this manual which is a product of an initially tested training design (run in May 2013) and enriched with feedback from the training management team and the participants themselves. The manual is so designed with concept introduction built-in in simulated exercises that approximate real situation. It, likewise, has a Note to facilitator in a box that coaches them on what to do in concept introduction built-in in exercises and on how to process them to maximize the concept appreciation and learning. With the manual, the objective to create a potential resource for VNFU staffs that were selected to be trained and become trainers/ facilitators who will later conduct training workshops for grassroots level is achieved. This is made possible with pilot trainings conducted immediately after the training course (with the manual as guide), allotting time for the newly trained trainers to plan and adjust emphasis of their pilot training as maybe needed.