How to Plan a

POPED Program

STAGE 1: NEEDS ANALYSIS

Who will the participants be? How will they be
chosen?
What will the theme or topic be?
How will the theme relate to the participants own
concerns and work?
How do they express these connections and
concerns?

STAGE 2: SETTING OBJECTIVES

What are the objectives of the participants?
What are your objectives as popular educator?
How will you know if the objectives have been met?

STAGE 3: NUTS AND BOLTS

How many participants will there be?
How long is the program?
Where will it be held?
What resources and materials will be needed?

PRINCIPLES OF
COMMUNICATION

COMMUNICATE
to engage in the art of expressing and
exchanging ideas effectively in speech
or writing or through the graphic or
dramatic arts.

PRINCIPLE 1

You dont drink the

beans to get a great
cup of coffee.

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Say what
you're going to
say.
Say it.
Tell them what
you just said.

PRINCIPLE 3
Use the right
tool for the
task.

Different Modes of Pop Ed

ORAL: handing down
of information or
knowledge, beliefs
and customs by word
of mouth
DIRECT
STRUCTURE
D
DYNAMIC

By ONE person
(lecture/narration)
By MORE than
one person
(debate/panel
discussion)
Made WITHIN a
GROUP (buzz
groups)

Different Modes of Pop Ed

VISUAL: appeal
to the sense of
sight

cartoons
posters
chalk talk
metacards
projector
photographs
models

WHY USE VISUAL

AIDS?
ideas and concepts
are better understood
capture and sustain
interest of participants
language and
terminology VS.
symbols and drawings

Different Modes of Pop Ed

LITERARY: print
(books), film, radio,
nursery rhymes,
songs, plays
cultural
stories/traditions
cultural references
ice breakers

CULTURAL
TRADITION: games,
action songs, roleplaying, tableaux,
songs,
dance/interpretation,
mime
used to inspire and
motivate participants
creativity
participative and
experiential

Different Modes of Pop Ed

DINAMICA :
- strategy to discuss highly divisive
topics
- expressing opinion along a scale
- can measure changes in attitude
- gives participants opportunity to
explain beliefs

PRINCIPLE 4
Enthusiasm is so
contagious!
And so is boredom.

PRINCIPLE 5
Dont be a Fancy
Nancy!

PRINCIPLE 5
This personage entreats your
kind self to sanction the instant
diversion of the deputations
paths from this locale for the
progressive forward movement of
all towards their subsequent
academic election.

PRINCIPLE 5
Please let us go to our
next class now.