From skills to teaching goals (training course objectives)
When building a professionalising training course, the reasoning behind each goal for each section of the course needs to fit in with the global coherence. Each goal is like one brick in the wall.
A solid basis must be established first, on which it is possible to build, brick by brick. The style of the wall you are building will change according to external influences you wish to include.
Method : The progression through the building process can be seen follows:
Example : Let's study this example
Amongst the goals of this module in training course engineering there is one that says something like this:
‘Be able to explain the place of and the reason for a course programme when engineering a training course'
The goal is not to be capable of developing a programme but to explain why you write a programme and how you use it. Therefore you will not find a case study to work on writing a programme.
In order to explain the reasoning behind a programme it is necessary to – show an example document and explain the contents – give examples of how it can help with cohesion – give reasons why using a programme has a positive impact on the quality of the course
Knowledge must be learned on ‘course programmes and their use' and knowhow must be acquired on communication strategies for explaining. We have here a glimpse of all the necessary groundwork that needs to be done to be able to define teaching content.
