Design and Evaluation of Training Programs - Week 3
Introduction: Hello and welcome to week three of the course Design and Evaluation of Training Progams and Workshops. Today we will do several activities to explore different models for course design to see what they have in common, discuss the benefits of taking a systems approach to course design, review the guidelines for your needs and context analysis assignment, and discuss the benefits and challenges of peer and self-observation as professional development strategies.
Think about your years of teaching experience. What specific examples can you give for each of the following categories?
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- How have your attitudes, beliefs, practices and habits related to teaching changed over the years?
- What drove those changes? Where any of the changes made consciously? If so, what prompted them?
- How might you become more aware of your ongoing growth and change as a professional?
Task 2: What is Curriculum?
This is a course on teacher training, not curriculum. However, designing effective training programs requires us to think beyond the limits of a single workshop and consider the design of an overarching structure that our workshops and other learning experiences are a part of. Discuss the following questions with your partners.
- Think of a coures that you took as a student (at any level) that you consider to be effective.
- What made it effective?
- How was the course structured?
- What kinds of tasks were you required to do?
- How did they contribute to your learning?
- Think of a course that you have taken (or taught) that you did not consider to be effective? What structural changes could be made to improve it?
- As teachers we are much more familiar with designing learning experiences at the lesson level. What do we need to consider in order to begin designing courses?
Task 3: Comparing Course Design Models
The following course design models were referenced by Graves (2000) in Chapter 1 "A Systems Approach to Course Design." Briefly look at each one and describe what you see.
- How are the models similar and different?
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- What does the Graves model have that is also present in the other models?
- What is different about the Graves model?
Task 4: Your Reading Takeaways
Share your takeaways from this reading response task. Remember you were asked to consider the following questions as you read the chapter.
- "Designing a teacher training course involves ________. (p. 1)"
- What are the elements of course development?
- What is a systems approach?
- How does it help explain the process of course development?
- What strengths does a systems approach have over linear models of curriculum development?
- Why is designing a training course a work in progress?
Task 5: The ADDIE Model of Instructional Design
The assessment tasks in this course were organized based on the ADDIE model. Let's take a moment to review the sections of this model that you may find helpful to develop your own courses and training programs.
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Task 6: Instructions for Needs and Context Analysis
CLICK HERE to review the guidelines document for your upcoming assignment.
- What educational institution are you planning to work with?
- What specific focus have you thought of giving your training course proposal?
- What kind of information do you think you will need to gather to adequately consider the needs and context?
Task 7: Sharing your PD Journal
Last week you read the section "Find out how you teach" in the Richards (2017) book and you selected two PD tips to react to. Let's take a moment to share and compare.
- Use lesson reports to monitor your teaching
- Watch or listen to yourself teaching
- Observe each other teaching
- Keep a portfolio
- Keep a journal
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