Last summer, Devonte, a high school teacher, was an adult counselor at a national high school leadership camp. His friends run the camp (and he attended as a high school student), but he was unfamiliar with how the camp had morphed in the last 10 years. When he arrived at camp, he found out that the camp directors expected him to train college students to be junior counselors. Though he had not prepared to teach a workshop, he pulled upon all of his team-building experiences, some experience working for a political campaign, his recent experiencing teaching drama, and the book The Alchemist, which he read on the plane. He delivered a meaningful training session. Now, he proudly tells his colleagues at home about his pedagogy. Which of Weick's concepts best help us to understand Devonte's process?

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Devonte's process of creating a training session on the spot can be understood through retrospective sense-making, which is the process of making sense of a past event through new information and experiences. He drew upon various past experiences and resources to create a meaningful training session, which he was able to reflect upon and integrate into his pedagogy.

Last Summer, Devonte, a High School Teacher, Was an Adult