Workshop Part 3

Overview

Aims of the Workshop Part 3 course from Warnborough College

• Identify efficiency problems that occur in the production process at a workplace, develop efficiency improving procedures, and follow up and improvements’ assessing procedures.

• Demonstrate skills in supervising the performance of team work and individual workers to attain appropriate performance standards.

• Demonstrate skills in staff and teams motivation.

• Demonstrate skills in workplace project planning, either cyclical or finite.

How the Course Works

This course involves undertaking three hypothetical PBL projects, based on the industry you work in, or intend to work in. (eg. if you are a nursery worker, you must base your project on a small nursery; or if you work in administration, you will base your project on your sector of the business community.)

What is PBL?

Problem-based learning has been defined as: “A learning method based on using problems as a starting point for acquisition and integration of new knowledge.”

• PBL relies on problems to drive curriculum.

• PBL relies on real-life problems, where students act as professionals.

• PBL problems are not precise as they are not intended to generate neat answers. In your analysis to find the answer, you will gain essential problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

• There are no single correct or incorrect solutions. Problems are designed so that different appropriate answers might apply as there is never meant to be just one solution.

• Teaching staff are facilitators or coaches, and must resist providing solutions (students solve the problems).

• Students are provided with guidance but not answers as they are given guidance in techniques that might be used for problem solving.

• Assessment is based upon performance, not upon giving correct answers.