SayPro SOURCING INFORMATION TO SUPPORT IDENTIFIED NEEDS

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SayPro SOURCING INFORMATION TO SUPPORT IDENTIFIED NEEDS (AC 2)

After the learner needs have been identified, it is important to go an extra mile and qualify these needs before an educational intervention. This step allows the provider to have sufficient references and have a sufficient framework to provide guidance for the educational intervention.

For a community-based educational programme the following methods can be used to provide information on identified needs;

· Community walks to observe the learners in their everyday activities and interactions. The walks should be followed by interviews to ask learners about what was observed.

· Interviews with the future learners, individually or in groups, using open-ended questions or pre-planned questionnaires

· Home visits or workplace visits to observe the learners’ living conditions and talk with them informally

· Skits, role-plays and puppet shows in which participants act out situations, problems and needs. (This can be especially helpful if participants are reluctant to bring up certain topics in a public discussion. If the issues are sensitive, it may be best to do these activities in a home or other private location.)

· Reports from previous programs or other written materials that provide more information about the community.

· Documents from learners like Enrolment forms, application forms, pre-course questionnaires and informal or formal pre-course meetings can also be used.

· Personal records. Timelines to express learners’ short-term and long-term goals Learners may prepare their own personal timelines, in writing or pictorially, that indicate major events in their lives as well as future goals. Discussion can then focus on how.

Training and development plans and skills profiles are also useful sources of information.