Great teachers are natural lesson design experts. You observe your audience, diagnose their learning needs and create lessons to meet those needs. This process can be so intuitive that you aren’t even aware of the steps to your own methods.
It helps to break down the process to better understand how ‘natural lesson design’ works.
In business the action mapping process describes how to go about rapidly planning training. Rapid training/lesson development is a survival skill for all of us.
This Slideshare presentation from Cathy Moore was posted on her Making Change Blog.
Cathy Moore: “I’ve been using a quick, visual process to design projects. I call it action mapping because it helps you change what people do, not just what they know.”
The action mapping process:
1. Identify the business goal
2. Identify what people need to do to reach that goal.
3. Design activities that help people practice each behavior.
4. Identify the minimum information people need to complete each activity.
It’s always better to show, rather than tell:
For more in-depth information (Including a pdf version of this Slideshare) go to Cathy’s Blog!
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