What does good eductation and training look like to you?
I am curious; after a 3 hour workshop on 'A day in the life of a trainer' yesterday (3 hours I will never get back) I discovered for some within my organsiation it's about process maps, checks, controls, rigid adherence to instructional specifications and not creativity, innovation or the promotion of student centred learning.
Is this familiar to you? Do you feel like the Martians in your own training environment laughing at the earth people who are missing the point?
Your thoughts and discoveries would be greatly appreciated.
Great connection. We spend so much time and effort ensuring students have the correct information, we forget it is the instructor that makes that information come alive. We humans by nature love to learn why do we make the process so difficult.
ReplyDeleteThe rigidity you refer to is endemic of an organisation beset on efficiencies vice effectiveness. I too am a Martian in my organisation, but have become the gamekeeper; I fear that it will only worsen. We must follow processes to safeguard being sued in order to govern what the learner learns; KLPs should be seen as a minimum standard: over to you SMEs let your creativity and imagination shine and develop your lessons in the time we give you. Problem is that if outside the scope of the OPS, time is removed; further unlike schools, universities and colleges, a high percentage of our instructors see their instructional job as harmony time, inheriting the training with little energy to challenge the norm.
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