Setting up a room for training/id

23. Menyiapkan ruangan untuk pelatihan

Menentukan cara mengatur ruangan

• Suasana seperti apa yang ingin diciptakan?
• Kegiatan apa yang akan dilakukan peserta? Apakah itu membaca, berbicara, memberi presentasi, menggunakan komputer, bermain peran, dan kelompok kerja kecil?
• Apa saja peralatan dan alat bantu visual yang diperlukan?
• Apakah akan diperlukan banyak kebebasan bergerak?
• Apakah tata letak ruangan perlu diubah selama hari yang sama?
• Apakah memerlukan papan tulis untuk mencatat atau permukaan untuk menggunakan komputer?
• Di manakah fasilitator harus paling sering berada?
• Apakah ingin lebih banyak duduk atau berdiri?
• Dapatkah Anda menjaga kontak mata dengan para peserta?
• Apakah semua orang dapat mendengar dan melihat fasilitator?
• Dapatkah orang-orang meninggalkan ruangan dengan mudah bila menerima panggilan telepon atau karena alasan lain?

Ragam konfigurasi ruang kelas

Ruang rapat

Sebuah meja panjang berbentuk persegi atau oval dengan kursi di sekelilingnya.

Positif

• Ruang seluas meja kerja
• Peserta dapat dengan mudah berdiri dan memulai presentasi di bagian depan, atau meninggalkan ruangan jika diperlukan
• Akses yang baik bagi fasilitator untuk mengamati, melihat layar komputer, atau melakukan pekerjaan lain

Negatif

• Mejanya sering kali tidak dapat digeser atau dipindahkan
• Tidak memungkinkan penggunaan ruangan secara luwes
• Memberikan aspek formal pada ruangan, sehingga peserta menganggapnya sebagai rapat

Gaya teater

Barisan kursi dengan atau tanpa meja, dan para peserta semuanya menghadap ke depan.

Positives

• Efficient use of space because you can usually fit more people into a room.
• Allows for some flexible use of the room if the tables are not too difficult to move or if there are not too many people in the room.
• Everyone is facing the front.
• Trainer can see people reasonably easily and can see who is asking questions.

Negatives

• People can’t see each other
• Participants cannot get up easily and present at front or leave room if necessary
• Gives a formal aspect to the room and participants associate it with lectures or presentation. Makes for a passive atmosphere.
• Poor access for facilitator to stand behind and see computer screens or other work
• Facilitator can’t move around easily

Cabaret or café style

A number of tables around the room with participants seated around the tables in small even-sized groupings.

Positives

• Gives an informal, group work feel to the room
• People are automatically in groups.
• Excellent for setting a tone for participatory approach and discussion
• Easy for facilitator to move around and interact with groups.
• The focus is less on the ‘trainer’ and more on the learners.
• Flexible in terms of regrouping participants.
• Tables for participants to work on.

Negatives

• Not easy to determine the ‘front’ or presentation area
• Some people may not face the trainer all the time, others will have to move their chairs a little
• Sometimes makes whole class discussion difficult because not everyone is facing the right way all the time.
• Takes up a lot of room.
• Allows for side conversations which can be distracting.
• Difficult to get everyone’s attention at the same time so may need a special bell etc

U-shape (with tables)

Tables arranged in a U shape around a central presentation area. This U can be narrow (for a long thin room) or wide for a larger room.

Positives

• Allows for good full group discussion
• People have tables to rest on.
• Good for setting a tone for participatory approach and discussion
• Facilitator is easily seen.
• People can usually see each other well.
• People can bring their chairs into the central area for group work if necessary.

Negatives

• Some people sitting sideways on to facilitator and the screen.
• Can be reasonably formal.
• Can be very awkward if the room is long and see you properly or participants can’t move around
• Takes up a lot of room.
• Facilitator can get stuck up the front.

U-shape (without tables)

Chairs only arranged in a U shape around a central presentation area. This U can be narrow (for a long thin room) or wide for a larger room.

Positives

• Allows for good full group discussion
• Good for setting a tone for participatory approach and discussion
• Facilitator is easily seen.
• People can usually see each other well without tables as barriers
• People can move easily and flexibly.
• Action area in the middle which can be used easily and quickly by anyone wanting to present or explain or demonstrate.
• Can usually be organised quickly in any available space.

Negatives

• Some people sitting sideways on to facilitator and the screen.
• Very informal.
• Can be very awkward if the room is long and see you properly or participants can’t move around
• Takes up a lot of room.
• People don’t have tables to rest or write on.
• People can get tired sitting upright, particularly if there is not much room on either side or the chairs are uncomfortable.
• Facilitator can get stuck up the front.
• The room can get very messy if people need to put things on the floor.
• Some people think that the training can’t be serious because it is more like a therapy group or story telling in school.