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Stages and Labels of Learning |
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The premise is that if you arent aware of
something you cant do the associated requisite skill or task.
The stages progress until one becomes proficient enough that s/he does
not require a great deal of thought in order to do the required skill or task. The author proposes that using the labels of unaware, aware, skilled and unskilled serve a more useful purpose.
In addition to these labels, the Johnsons (Roger, David and Edye Johnson Holubec) though their work with Cooperative Learning, found that learning a skill includes four stages of learning. They are: Awkward, Phony, Mechanical and then Genuine. These stages are applied to the above diagram.
It
is the authors contention that both the Awkward and Phony stages
occur in the Aware/Unskilled category. They
stages imply a desire to learn and improve, but a lacking of a competence level
that would allow a person to feel comfortable with their skills.
Why
is this information useful?
For
anyone that teaches or finds him or herself in a leadership position, the labels
or stages (whichever makes the most sense to you and the people you work with)
reminds us that skill development takes time. Even with good instruction, an encouraging environment and
successful practice situations, everyone will have an awkward phase or perhaps
seem mechanical and possibly less than genuine. The key word in the last sentence is seem.
Our role as teacher or leader includes answering the following questions
ourselves:
Finally,
when a student or employee is asked a question, they may or may not be skilled
at knowing what they want or how to evaluate their choices.
They too, need to be taught and given time to learn the process.
References:
Hoglund, R.
The Language of Choice Theory, AZ: Center for Quality Education,
Inc., 1992.
Johnson, D., Johnson, R. Johnson-Holubec, E. Cooperation in the Classroom Minneapolis, MN: Interaction Book Company, 1998. |
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