The Learning Experience Involves Three Processes
1.
Acquisition
of new information
2.
Transformation
– making information fit tasks
3.
Evaluation
– checking the fit of the new to the application
·
Adapt
Methods to Learning Styles
(see
Big Dog’s Learning Styles
page)
·
Select
Appropriate Training “Media”
(see
Big
Dog’s Media page)
-
Begin the program with features that orient
the trainees to the program
-- Trainer introductions
-- Ice Breakers
-- Overview of goals and content
-- Values of the training to the trainee
-
Determine the best order of key learning
materials (knowledge and skills)
-- what materials will help trainees
initially see "the point"
-- what must be learned first in order to
move to the next concept or skill
-- use the Bloom's Cognitive Domain as a
basis for ordering skills and knowledge (memory, comprehension, application,
analysis, synthesis, evaluation)
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Be sure you have a clear understanding of the
content of each unit
-
Establish very specific learning objectives
for each unit (3 -6 usually).
-
Plan methods that will allow you to reach
those objectives
-- use Don Clark's "Learning
Strategies" to evaluation training methods and his "Training
Media Dictionary"
-- Be sure trainees know the objectives of
EACH unit
-- Be sure trainees are active a
significant part of each unit
-
Allow trainees plenty of opportunities to
practice skills and to see how they are applied in "real life."
Factors
Required for Successful Learning
1.
Knowledge
– by trainer and trainee
2.
Environment
– the tools (materials, instructions, media, etc.)
3.
Involvement
Skills – know your trainees (see learning styles page)
Sample Training Module