Education & Training Philosophy and Practice Series – Part 1a
Introduction
I have engaged in education and training practice for about a decade. I have been fortunate to have studied, facilitated and taught across eras, cultures, continents, industries and disciplines. As a result I have diverse experience, and most importantly I believe, perspective of education and learning. If you are relatively new to my self, or my professional practice including that of my Education and Training practice, I suggest you refer to my blog series, commencing with this one here (Page, 2004). I believe that series will assist you as the reader to situate your self into my worldview, and more particularly, my view of education and training practice [Note: I later refer to this practice as Learning & Teaching (L&T) Philosophy and Practice when I transitioned into the Higher Education (HE) sector].
Given the developmental nature of Learning & Teaching (L&T)Philosophy, I have continued to update this blog series to retain its currency in general, and relative to my specific practice at any given time, such as my Higher Education Creative Media practice at the current time.
Education & Training Session Plans
In Part 3c (Page 2015a) of the above mentioned Learning & Teaching (L&T) Philosophy and Practice blog series, I discuss my developed approach to Learning & Teaching (L&T) session plans. However, due to the nature of that series being an introduction to my approach, I did not go into detail of any such session plans. However, I have received many requests over the years from peers to provide them examples of what I introduced in ‘Layer 8i: My approach in preparing for a learning practice session Pt 9’ of that blog:.
“The final stage in this process – once the education & learning practice session plan has been developed – is to consider the various formats such a plan may be required in” (Page, 2015a)
In my professional practice, I have found there to be a number of formats of Education & Training Session Plans. This blog is the start of a series of blogs to introduce a working example of these, illustrating who their commonalities, and differences. I am hoping this will provide the reader transparent examples of each of these types of education and learning session plans, and an understanding of what context they are most useful. In my professional practice experience, a particular context or situation of practice may require an alternative form of an education and learning session plan. All are connected, and all stem from what I refer to as a detailed education and learning session plan. However, what you pass to colleagues or take with you into the actual education and learning session may differ in form quite dramatically.
Here is Education + Training Session Plan Part 1 of a planned six (6) part series.
DLP Detailed Education & Training Session Plan
What: This is a fully detailed education & learning session plan of what you are planning to do, including post-practice reflections.
I estimate it would take approximately 6 hours to create an education & training session plan, and then approximately 3 hours to reflect upon that education & training session plan post-practice. Time invested in my opinion is a not negotiable aspect of the education & training practice process, if that novice education & learning practitioner desires to become an education industry professional education & learning practitioner.
Possible Use: This type of Education & Training Session Plan is to be created by a novice education & learning practitioner for every lesson for the first two years of practice.
In this situation, I would expect an experienced education and learner practitioner to be mentoring the novice education and learning practitioners, discussing and scaffolding the novice education & learning practitioner in their lessons across their first two years of practice – in the planning, delivery and post-practice reflection stages of their education and learner practice.
EG: see ‘DLP Education + Training Practice Session plan 2015.20151120.v36’ . If you do not have access to this file, please contact the author directly to request access.
The next blog in this Project 1 series is Education & Training Session Plans Part 2 (Page, 1991).
References
Onion image courtesy of: Onion Layers Accessed 21st November, 2014
Page, David L. 2015a. What is your approach to learning & teaching (L&T) practice 2? In Learning & Teaching (L&T) Philosophy and Practice Series – Part 3c blog post. Accessed 22nd May, 2016
Page, David L. 2004. So what is a learning organisation? In Education & Training Philosophy and Practice Series – Part 2. Accessed 21st November, 2014
Page, David L. 1991. Education & Training Session Plans Part 2, In Education & Training Philosophy and Practice Series – Part 1b blog post. Accessed 21st November, 2014
– David L Page 02/04/1990
– updated David L Page 19/09/2004
– updated David L Page 20/11/2015
– updated David L Page 22/05/2016
