Comments on: Using Heron’s 6 Category Intervention Analysis with online tutors

By: James Kilty

James Kilty — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:08:19 +0000

Hello
It is good to hear that John Heron’s work is still active. I followed John as Director of the Human Potential Research Project at the University of Surrey and promoted this work strongly – short and longer courses, advanced and trainers’ courses. The HPRP and its renamed successor no longer exist as Surrey transformed everything. There are some details in my web pages ../hprp.htm and so on. I hope you find them useful.
If anyone reading this is interested in using the model in training, I am writing a book with activities for training.
Happy learning.
James

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:14:40 +0000

Great post, useful a non educator like me.

Given the future directions that Judo Coach education is heading (i.e. Online) we need to get to know all this good stuff.

Lance

By: David Hicks

David Hicks — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:06:27 +0000

I rather like this analysis. I am not sure how well the six categories would allow us to ‘code’ the various interactions we have with students but I think having a mental checklist like this could be useful to tutors.

For example, it could be used to prompt ideas about how to respond to a student, with a ‘releasing tension’ intervention suggested by a sense that a student was becoming anxious.

It might also be useful in clarifying the roles of multiple tutors working with the same group of students. I think subject tutors would better understand the kind of interventions that they can most usefully make if the whole range of the six different types were explained to them.