Innovative curriculum designing for work - based learning

2.3.1. Teaching and learning methods

Now you dealt with methods and their didactical and methodological implications. In the next step of the training material you are asked to reflect your teaching and learning methods.

Maybe you think: “I do know my methods and I don’t need further information on that matter”. ->

This section is not about enlarging your knowledge about teaching and learning methods, it is about reflecting them.

To reflect and questions oneself from time to time are the most important tasks of a trainer, conductor, teacher, instructor.

There may be a wide range of formal and informal, structured and unstructured, learning opportunities in the workplace and elsewhere. This can include lectures, seminars and workshops, coaching, group work, visits and shadowing. Also a whole range of self study and online methods can be included. Blended learning approaches can incorporate a mix of group and individual methods, face-to-face delivery, e-learning and practical tasks.

For all methods, the students need to reflect on their learning and make links to previous experience.  But also the trainer, instructor (or how you name yourself in this profession) needs to reflect his/her learning approach.

Therefore: take your time and have a look at the following presentation. Do you agree with these principles?

If you want to reflect your learning approach more thoroughly, have a look at the handout, it takes you about 20 minutes to fill in https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5oYWYGv_IsWLTFLNlNmWGRmS2c/view?usp=sharing