Learners Sort Facts Into Correct Goups

Hers's a fun, interactive technique you can use to test whether can recall facts about eg:

• Sales - Different product features
• Induction - Different Departments

Preparation

• Prepare a flip chart sheet for each department or product eg if there are 4 products then you'll need 4 flip chart sheets each with the heading of a different product. Place these on the wall around the room.
  
  
• Have 2 different coloured sets of post-it notes.

How To

• Divide the workshop into 2 teams.
  
  
• Give each team a different coloured set of post-it notes.
  
  
• Ask learners to make notes as you give the facts about different products or as different presenters arrive and present their department. Let them know that they will be setting questions to challenge another team and another team will be challenging them so they may want to ensure their notes are extensive.
  
  
• Present the facts for each product while learners make their notes. (Or, ask learners to make notes as different presenters present their department.)
  
  
• Ask learners to work in pairs and compare their notes adding any details they missed.
  
  
• Ask learners to work in their team and generate around 20 facts such as:
  - This product prints at 80 pages per minute in colour
  - This type of isa ends when the person reaches 18 years old
  - This department has 1,200 staff
  
  and put each fact on a different post-it note.
  
  
• Teams hand their post-it note questions to the other team.
  
  
• Teams then discuss and place the facts onto the correct flip chart. Allow time for this to happen.
  
  
• Ask teams to check that facts have been placed with the correct product (department). It's easy to differentiate the teams questions as they are on different coloured post-it notes.
  
  
• Discuss any discrepancies and if both teams mix a fact, discuss.

Alternative

Rather than present the information yourself, hand out a fact sheet for each product and have teams go through the fact sheets and then generate facts for the other team.