CTP Notes 13th March

Last week we finished talking about Bloom – Psychomotor, Social and Behavioural.

Bloom is saying that when training courses are put together is this skills, knowledge or attitude based?

Psychomotor – Physical Skills
Cognitive – Knowledge and knowing
Affective – Feelings and emotions

Skills at the bottom are low order tasks. We remember information crammed for an exam for a short time then probably not after the exam.

Skills at the top of the list are where we construct our own meanings (and take it away with us and put it into practice).

Jabberwocky exercise.

1. Gyre and Gimble
2. Mimsy
3. They outgrabe
4. No
5. Because of how they appeared / moved about? You can’t tell
6. Totally baffled

Where are these questions in relation to Bloom’s scale?

Levels (cognitive domain)
1-3 knowledge = lowest level
5. Analysis (before you can make analysis you have to understand)
6. Evaluation

Surface – simple parrot-fashion
Deep – Assimilation of info and use oneself

Learning Objectives
¨ What is the purpose of a learning objective?
¨ When should objectives be used?

Why have learning objectives?
Liz – so you can test whether the delegates’ have learnt it.

When should the objectives be outlined?
At the beginning

Aim
¨ A general statement of the purpose of the course

Objectives
¨ A statement in words of the intended learning outcome of a learning event which states what the trainee will be able to do as a result of the training
¨ A specific statement of what will be delivered
¨ Objectives must be SMART

Handout – Guidelines for defining Objectives

Approaches
¨ Trainer-centred
Trainer facilitating and leading session

¨ Learner centred
Learning at one’s own speed / distance

Trainer centred where the focus is on the trainer dictating the pace and content.