Life Skills and Leadership Manual - Peace Corps

Life Skills & Leadership: Unit 4, Session 5: Our Project | Page 69 of 91

B. Summary
Conclude the exercise by saying:

“You have now successfully completed the Identifying and Planning steps of the Project Cycle for

making your presentation and you can move to the Doing and Reviewing steps, knowing that you have

done your best preparation so far.”

IV. Application ( 30 minutes)
Materials:
Trainer Material 2: Summary of Training Units
Participant handouts and/or flip charts from various Units as requested by participants

A. Doing and Reviewing a Project
Participants use the Doing and Reviewing steps of the Project Cycle in their project.

1. Explain how the Doing and Reviewing steps of the Project Cycle will be used in this situation. Say:

“This is the time when you will work to complete the action steps of your plan. I’d like you to use the

Doing steps of the Project Cycle to accomplish all the things needed to be ready for your presentation.

As you are completing the action steps, use some of the questions in the Reviewing steps to make sure

everyone is involved, included, and working toward the same goal.

“Use the next 20 minutes to work on your project.

“If you would like to use any of the posters or handouts that we have used previously in the course for

your project presentation, let me know, because I have most of them here.”

2. Be available as a resource to answer questions, solve problems, share handouts, and help participants
   find the information they need. After 20 minutes, say:

“I would like to give each team an opportunity to report what it has accomplished so far – and for

everyone to do a little celebrating as well! When it is your team’s turn, tell us what you have

accomplished so far in the preparation of your presentation.

3. After each team gives a brief report of its progress, ask these questions as additional thought for the
   Reviewing step for that team.
   “Do you still have actions steps to complete?
   Will you be doing any action steps after this session and before the next when you make your
   presentation?
   Are you clear about who needs to do what before our next session?”


4. Give the group members a hearty round of applause and thanks in celebration of their efforts so far.
   Then give the next group a chance to report.

Note: Steps 3 and 4 of “Doing and Reviewing a Project” serves as a partial assessment of Learning Objective 1.