Creating a Complete Topic or Learning Objective can be challenging to stay focused and keep the learning simple for the participants. Topic Activities can be simple or complex but teach one learning objective. They will include an absorb, do, and connect activity followed with an assessment to be effective. At our organization, we needed access to simple activities or worksheets that Field Trainers could access to reinforce knowledge over a variety of topics. If an employee was not understanding one specific topic, having quick and simple pre-made solutions would help. A template I created for a new Ten Minute Review program has been very effective to build a series of activities that can be accessed via a company intranet. Field Trainers can have the new hire complete the topic online, or if there is no computer available, they can easily print the documents on 2 pages, front and back, to make it easy for the employee to complete by hand. Each Topic includes one page of information (absorb), the next page will include an activity (do) to reinforce knowledge. Matching, fill in the blank or memory game work well on this page. Page 3 has several rhetorical questions which can be reviewed individually, or performed as a role play with the trainer (connect). Last, the trainer can request that a quiz be completed to reinforce the knowledge. These items will be available by topic so that only those topics that need to be supported or trained will be required to print.
What simple activity designs have you created that have worked?
Brooke
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