The goal of coaching during year 3:
This year is about empowering you to weave together the different forms of knowledge and skills you have acquired throughout your time at LIS so far. In the same way that the multi-coloured rope above is a composite of 3 interweaving smaller ropes, the goal of coaching this year is to help you make your own ‘rope’. That means, help you synthesise your knowledge and skills into a tool you can take with you post-LIS that complements your capstone project.
Coaching Groups:
Integration frameworks
Here is a link to the different integration frameworks we have used throughout coaching so far (you would have encountered some/all of these last year).
The Dots
Instructions:
‘The Dots’ is a framework to help you consolidate your knowledge across disciplines and methods
- Step 0: Copy the template to your own private capstone Miro board space
- Step 1: Write your capstone problem statement in the middle circle
- Step 2: In the outer circle, write all the Methods and Disciplinary Perspectives that are most relevant to your capstone. Feel free to expand or reduce the circles if necessary.
- Step 3: Work your way around all the circles ensuring that you cover all the modules/DPs
- Step 4: Use some of these questions to guide you if you’re stuck:
- What are the key insights from this topic?
- What surprised you?
- What could you explain to someone else?
- What confused you?
- Step 5: Consider what insights from the individual outer circles, directly relate to your problem statement and copy those points over to the central circle
Connecting the Dots
Instructions:
Connect the Dots is a framework to help you explore how different methods and disciplinary perspectives feed into your project
- Step 0: Copy the template to your own private capstone Miro board space
- Step 1: Write your capstone problem statement in the middle circle
- Step 2: In the outer circle, write all the Methods and Disciplinary Perspectives that are most relevant to your capstone. Feel free to expand or reduce the circles if necessary.
- Step 3: Work your way around all the circles ensuring that you cover all the modules/DPs
- Step 4: Use some of these questions to guide you if you’re stuck:
- What are the key insights from this topic?
- What surprised you?
- What could you explain to someone else?
- What confused you?
- Step 5: Consider what insights from the individual outer circles, directly relate to your problem statement and copy those points over to the central circle
- Step 6: Consider how to weave these connected points together
Levels of Connectedness, Circles and Squares
Instructions:
Levels of Connectedness is a framework to help you consider which ‘academic tools’ are most relevant to your project
- Step 0: Copy the template to your own private capstone Miro board space
- Step 1: Under the Levels of Connectedness square, replace the placeholder ‘Problem Statement’ with your capstone title
- Step 2: Under the Academic Tools square, map out the different Academic Tools (methods and disciplines) you have covered so far (throughout your time at LIS). Write each one on a post-it note with 1 or 2 key takeaways
- Step 3: Transition to the 'Levels of Connectedness' and place each post-it in relation to the problem statement. Which post-its are directly related to your problem statement (i.e. within the green circle), which ones are indirectly related (within the red circle), and which ones do not seem related at all (outside of the red circle)
FANQu (Frame, Apply, Note connections, Questions)
Instructions:
FANQu is a framework to help you take a bird's-eye view of your problem statement and consider the key components of the topic, explore relevant connections between what you have learned so far, and pose questions you might want to explore at a later date
- Step 0: Copy the template to your own private capstone Miro board space.
- Step 1: Consider some of the ways you could frame and re-frame your problem statement