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PREPARING
LEARNING
ACTIVITIES
Dr Zosh Pawlaczek
Deakin Learning Futures, Teaching Development

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OBJECTIVES
„ Explore your design preferences in preparing learning
activities
„ Discuss planning elements of learning facilitation
„ Reflect on your practices for managing a learning
environment
„ Create a context for reflecting on own practice.

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TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
What is your Teaching Philosophy?
“The self is not something ready-
made, but something in continuous
formation through choice of action.”
John Dewey

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PLANNING AND MANAGING LEARNING
ACTIVITIES
„ Good Practice – what is it?
„ Aims and objectives iterated as
learning outcomes
„ Syndicate (unit/module)
specifications made clear
„ Discipline knowledge
specialism conveyed

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PLANNING: KEY ELEMENTS
•Timing
•Structure of activities
•Your involvement in
activities
•How you will instruct
•H&S
•Reflect on participant learning
•Pilot new ways of assessment
and monitor
•Gauge participant approaches to
learning
•Participate in an analytic process
that is intrinsic to good practice
•Activities
•Motivation strategies
•Understand intended LOs
•Know the Syndicate Aims
and objectives
•Acquire relevant subject
knowledge for session Preparing Designing
PresentingEvaluating

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Based on part or whole of program that
culminates in a “course” for example, like
a degree.
THE PLANNING PROCESS
This encompasses the day to day
responsibilities of facilitators and includes
sessions including - parts of sessions and
sequences of sessions.
Topic or unit of work that may last for part
or whole of syndicate activity.
Goals
Short Term
Medium Term
Long Term
Preparation of learning activities HAS to belong to all three of these goals.

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SALJO’S (1982) CATEGORIES OF LEARNING
1. A qualitative increase in knowledge.
2. Memorizing.
3. Acquisition of facts, methods, etc.
which can be retained and used when
necessary.
4. The extraction of meaning.
5. And interpretation process aimed at
understanding reality.
Cognitive
Learning
Categories 1,
2 & 3
Recall and
retention
Holistic
Learning
Categories 4
& 5
Relate to
your learning
outcomes

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MANAGING THE LEARNING SETTING
Person-
centred
approach
Interactive
Approach
Interventionist
Approach
Carl Rogers –
congruence, high regard,
empathy. Idiosyncratic and
laissez-faire.
Anticipating behaviour and
managing by
predetermined rules.
Assertive but restrictive.
Both need to negotiate
rules and values together
so that the learning
environment is understood
by all.
Groundwater-Smith el al. (2003)

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„ “Classroom management” is about the steps
that a facilitator takes to ensure that a
learning environment is maintained.
„ Teaching qualities and tasks – distinctive.
„ Creating and maintaining a positive learning
environment.
„ Developing relationships.
„ Monitoring the learning environment.
„ Reflection and evaluation.
„ Peer review
Facilitating learning is “what one person does to try to
help another to learn” (Claxton, 1984)