Workshop Part 3 Warnborough College

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.

Key facts

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.