Session 9 - Question Time
Contents
- Introduction
- Session 1 - The role of the TA
- Session 2 - Overcoming Barriers
- Session 3 - Debate
- Session 4 - TA Recruitment
- Session 5 - Validation
- Session 6 – Young Leader Transition to Adult Leader
- Session 7 - Managers and Supporter Training Advisers
- Session 8 - Updates to the Adult Training Scheme
- Session 9 - Question Time
- Session 10 - Ongoing Support
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
Session 9 - Question Time
Session objectives
- To allow TAs to pose questions to members of the training team and relevant others.
- To act as an information sharing platform for TAs, members of the training team and
relevant others.
Great for…
- Rounding off your TA support event.
- Allowing your TAs to get their questions answered.
- Ensuring that your TAs have the correct information available to them.
Resource
- Question slips (optional).
Time
Around 30 minutes
Method
Set up the training room with enough chairs for all participants. At the front of the room, set up a long table, with enough chairs for all panellists. Before the event, you will need to ensure that you have asked members of the training team, or any other relevant local volunteers, such as District or County Commissioners, to come along and act as panellists. Ensure that they are fully briefed and are aware that they will be answering questions posed by the TAs in attendance.
On the day of the event, you may wish to prepare question slips and hand them out to participants when they arrive to fill in with their questions. You will need to collect them in before this session and hand them out to the relevant panellist to answer. They can then read out the questions and address them as part of this session. You may wish to have some sample questions and answers prepared before the event in case no questions are posed.
To run this session without the question slips, set up the room as described above. Once participants have arrived, invite them to pose questions to members of the panel. They may pose questions to a specific person or to all the panellists in general. Allow participants a sufficient amount of time to ask their questions. Anything that cannot be answered on the day should be taken away and the answer fed back to participants after the event.
If questions are not submitted beforehand, the panel will not have had time to give thought to their responses, therefore it is worth bearing in mind that the answers given may be less complete.