Education & Training Philosophy and Practice Series – Part 1c
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 and Practice, 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 (contd)
There are many forms of Education & Training Session Plans which I introduced in Education & Training Session Plans Part 2 (Page, 1991a). This blog continues the series.
DLP Prescriptive Plus Education & Training Session Plan
What do I mean by this?
A prescriptive plus education & training session plan is a fully fleshed out education & learning session plan written by an inexperienced novice education & learning practitioner for the purposes of evidencing their understanding of how one can best delivering an effective learning session.
A fully fleshed out education & learning session plan describes what they need to cover, why the facilitator/instructor needs to cover this material, and leads the facilitator/instructor to consider how they may introduce the education and learning practice sessions, describing in great detail how the facilitator will execute the successful delivery of the tasks.
Possible Use: Such a session plan is useful for inexperienced novice education and learning practitioners; and/or where multiple somewhat inexperienced novice education & learning practitioners are delivering the same practice session across multiple sites or times.
In this situation, I would expect an experienced education and training practitioner to be in the learning session with the somewhat inexperienced novice education and training practitioners as a mentoring exercise.
I would also expect as part of this process, there would have been a pre-lesson submission of the proposed lesson plan, a meeting to discuss – and likely amend – the lesson plan prior to any learning session taking place. Such a pre-meeting discussion will likely afford the opportunity if/as there is lack of unknowingness within the inexperienced education & training practitioner for the experienced education & learning practitioner to be able to offer to step into the facilitator’s role during the planned learning session in order to model some alternative methods of delivery to the facilitator-centred instruction.
I would expect that such a discussion would also likely illuminate the differences of Facilitator-centred Instruction vs Learner-centred Instruction – and effective ratios within an effective learning session – to raise the inexperienced novice education & learning practitioner’s awareness of classroom management tactics.
Such a pre-learning session/session plan meeting and discusssion allows somewhat inexperienced novice education and learning practitioners to be led by modelling effective education & learning practice planning, delivery and post-practice reflection.
EG: see the previous Education & Training Session Plans Part 2 (Page, 1991a) session plan example to get consciousness of the minimum level of detail one would be expected for such a prescriptive plus education & training session plan.
The next blog in this Project 1 series is Education & Training Session Plans Part 4 (Page 1991b).
References
Onion image courtesy of: Onion Layers Accessed 21st November, 2014
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. 1991a. Education & Training Session Plans Part 2, In Education & Training Philosophy and Practice Series – Part 1b blog post. Accessed 21st May, 2016
Page, David L. 1991b. Education & Training Session Plans Part 4, In Education & Training Philosophy and Practice Series – Part 1d blog post. Accessed 21st May, 2016
– David L Page 02/05/1991
– updated David L Page 19/09/2004
– updated David L Page 21/11/2014
– updated David L Page 22/05/2016
