What is a learning event that you need to plan?

How do you feel about it?

What are your challenges to planning it?

Planning a Learning Event

Doug Maurer, DO, MPHAmanda Cuda, MD

Confucius

“What I hear, I forget.

What I see, I remember.

What I do, I understand.”

Objectives

Learned one planning system

Identified four types of learning tasks

Designed four learning tasks

Shared your event plan with one individual

Take Home

A learning event of your creation

A System for Planning

8 Steps (and 4 I’s) by Jane Vella

Taking Learning to Task

Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach

On Teaching and Learning

Activity 1: The 8 Steps

5. What?

6. What for?

7. How

8. So What?

1. Who?

2. Why?

3. When?

4. Where?

Step 1: Who?

• Number of attendees

• Who are your learners?

• What do they know?

• How do they learn best?

Step 2: Why?

• Why is this lecture important?

• Why are you here?

• Identify need vs. requirement

Step 3: When?

• Time of day

• How much can be taught

• Respect for learner’s time

• How much time to prepare

Step 4: Where?

• Site: classroom, lecture hall, etc

• Convenience & accessibility

• Small-group facilitation

• AV support as needed

• Lighting and sound

Step 5: What?

• Content of the course

• Informed by the LNA

• Knowledge (cognitive)

• Skills (psychomotor)

• Attitudes (affective)

Step 6: What for?

• What learners will do with content

• Learning objectives of the course

• Specific and measurable

• Expressed by verbs

Step 7: How?

• Timeline

• 4 I’s = Learning tasks

• Takes planning & materials

• Teacher is facilitator

Step 8: So What?

• Learning: Did they learn it?

• Transfer: Did they use it?

• Impact: Did it make a difference?

Activity 2: Your Learning Event

On worksheet, complete 8 Steps for YOUR learning event

Don’t work on the 4 I’s yet!

Share your ideas with 2-3 people around you

10 Minutes

7. How = 4 I’s

Inductive: Connect with what they know

Input: Learn something new

Implementation: Practice what they know

Integration: Take it home and use it

Activity 3a: The 4 I’s

Worksheet page 3 lists 4 I’s for this session

No specific order or blend of activities

Base your activities on your objectives

Best bang for your buck?

Activity 3b: What are the 4 I’s again?

Form groups of three

Match cards 4 I’s, definitions, and examples

Two card sets = 1 easy, 1 not-so-easy

5 Minutes

Activity 4:How to make a PB&J

Form pairs or groups of three:

Write 4 tasks for a 4 year old using the 4 I’s

PB&J VIDEO

Activity 5: Your 4 I’s

Collaborate with a group.

Design 1 learning activity for each of 4 I’s.

20 Minutes

Activity 6:Give your Educational Event

Shared details

Write down details

Give your event, get feedback

Attend event, give feedback

Learning check

Learn one planning system

Identify four types of learning tasks

Design four learning tasks

Share your event plan with one individual

Questions?