Facilitation Self Assesment

First off, I know from past experience, that being a facilitator is a very weak point for myself. So I will start with what I felt I could have done better.

While reading about toxic waste online, I thought the game looked extremely complicated, while doing it in the comfort of my own home, my siblings and myself struggled to reach the goal of the activity with the rules in front of us. I made the mistake of assuming my classmates would have equal trouble completing the assignment. I gave them a pre-made loop which was what ultimately led them to figure out the activity within the first 10 minutes of the activity. In retrospect, I wish I'd given them the chord with no pre-made loop to add time to the activity.

I also felt my rules were not incredibly thorough and I found my self saying "also" more then I would have liked to.

The game looked much more frustrating online and I was looking forward to pulling the group away from the activity to talk through what they were doing, however, it went so smoothly and everyone had such a level head it was never necessary.

I think I did a good job stepping back from the situation and letting them work without my involvement, I was very proud of myself for that because it's one of the reasons I've been a terrible facilitator in the past. I thought it was a good idea to have my classmates do the activity again with more handicaps to make it more challenging, therefore more of a learning experience and less of a game.

On the upside to the whole thing, everyone in the group seemed to enjoy the game and the low level of challenge after our other classmates more difficult, frustrating game. I think as a stand alone activity that day it would not have gone over as well.