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====== THE MANDALA OF LEARNERS: A personal evaluation of one’s learning achievements ======


===== Objectives =====

  * Defining and clarifying personal/individual learning interests and transferring them into learning achievements
  * Getting ready for learning
  * Recognizing, identifying and documenting learning
  * Collecting learning achievements

===== Scenario =====

**Duration** 
  * 1 hour at the beginning of the training course\\
  * 40 minutes at the end of the training course\\

The “Mandala of learners” is an **individual work** to better understand personal **learning expectations**. It needs to be set **at the beginning** of the training course and will be reused **at the end** of it.

==== > Step  1: At the really beginning of the seminar/training course ====

To encourage **deep reflection**, create a calm atmosphere and put the material in the center of the room. Invite the participants to sit down where they feel comfortable to carry out the exercise.

Ask them to identify what their **learning expectations** are: What do they want to gain? What do they want to take home?\\
To help them, you can guide them with a few questions such as:
//- Why are you interested in the topic of this training activity?//
//- What do you want to learn during this seminar/training course?//
//- What do you hope will happen to make this seminar/training course a success?//

Make the participants aware that **they are the learners**, which means that they are **at the centre** of their “Mandala”. Invite them to **draw** a first template and **write** on it their **expectations** and the **learning goals** they would like to achieve. Make them aware that they will come back to this document at the end of the seminar/training course to see if their expectations were met.

**Each learning interest** will be linked to **one “shape”** of the mandala.\\
The **size** of each shape should be **proportionate** to the importance of that particular learning interest: the more important the learning interest, the bigger the shape should be.\\
Invite the participants to briefly name and describe their learning interests. They should only **draw the outlines** of the mandala and its shapes - **without colouring** in the spaces. Keywords associated with their learning interests can then be written into those spaces.

To help them understand, give a quick **example** of how a "Mandala of learners" could look on the flipchart.\\
Give them 40 minutes to draw theirs.

When the time is up, invite all the participants to **lay down their creations** on the floor and **take a look** at the others' mandalas to acknowledge the **group’s expectations**. 

Close the session by collecting all the mandalas and keep them in a safe place.

==== > Step 2: At the end of the seminar ====

{{:out_of_the_box:tools:assessing:mandala_1.jpg?200 |}}The day of the final evaluation, take out the Mandalas that the participants made on the first day. Invite them to take theirs and reflect on their **learning achievements**.

To measure how far the seminar/training course has met their expectations, invite them to **color** the different shapes they drew. If some learning achievements have not been fully reached, they should only color part of it. If they come across learning achievements which were not mentioned in the learning interests, they can also add them to their mandala and color them in.\\
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When the time is up, as at the beginning of the seminar, invite all the participants to **lay down their creations** on the floor and **take a look** at the others' mandalas to acknowledge the **group’s achievements**. 

After a few minutes, invite them to take their mandala back home as a **reminder** of the knowledge they acquired during the training course.

===== Material required =====
 
  * 1 A4 sheet per person
  * Color pencils + colors markers for all


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