The last couple weeks have been really, really busy for me
at work. Two trips out of town
sandwiched a week of instructing at home, I have put in nearly 227.3 hours of
work in two 14 day periods. The point of
my mentioning all of this is to underscore the constant go-go-go of my recent
schedule and also note that I have had a lot of recent experience to analyze
the training that is the subject of my Action Research project.
It has been hard at times to allow adequate time to research
for my AR project, and after many attempts of searching for pertinent articles
I have finally been able to find examples that provide a wealth of information
as well as unplanned potential directions to aide in my AR.
Particular items that I have noted recently:
·
I had forgotten how tiring personalized training
can be when training small groups on new information (specifically, information
that trainees have not been exposed to in the past)
·
I need to give more attention to removing our assumptions
of the knowledge level of those we are instructing
·
There is a need to provide a “Big Picture”
outlook for personnel undergoing training
·
We are missing examples to help learners develop
ways to use their analytical ability
The first bullet above is personal, and is noted to call out
the need to involve students more in the process; less time of the instructors
teaching, more time of the students learning and collaborating among
themselves.
The last three bullets will likely be where I spend a lot of
time formulating my AR work. The second
bullet, removing instructor assumptions
may be addressed by a short foundational course to lay the groundwork for the
rest of the training. This may require
re-tooling the rest of the training courses to incorporate different learning
strategies to aide in skill development coupled with the material. The big
picture need may be able to be addressed with new learning objectives and
skills exercises while verbally engaging trainees to think about steps of the
process and how they relate to overall objectives. The last bullet is where I really feel like
we are failing at training right now (albeit we get very positive notes on our
current training), we can do better to help unlock the true potential of those
we are training.
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