Reflect on Learning Experience and Future Practice as HR Specialists and Educators

Task:

Purpose of assignment: To provide an opportunity for learners to reflect on their learning experience throughout the course and to reflect on key concepts covered, while analyzing how they will incorporate key insights gained into their own future practice as HR specialists and/ or educators.

Learning Outcomes

• Analyze factors impacting how adults learn.
• Examine components of program planning.
• Examine effective collaboration and teamwork skills essential to the program planning process.

Insights Gained: Key Learnings

This should include, but not be limited to:
• What you learned about yourself as an adult learner and future facilitator.

• Challenges/ tensions you experienced throughout the course (note: this does not refer to challenges/ tensions such as time management or having to wake up early for class. Dig deeper).

• Describe your facilitation experience (e.g. what are some of your strengths as a facilitator? How will you take advantage of these strengths as a future facilitator? What are some areas you would like to work on? What strategies will you use in order to improve these areas as you work toward being an effective facilitator? Etc.).

• Team dynamics regarding your group process. Describe your experience during the team projects. What did you learn about the importance of teamwork and collaboration as it relates to the development of effective training programs? What were some of positive experiences during this process? What were some of the challenges? How did you contribute in order to help make this a positive learning experience for the other members in your team…in other words, what did you give (note: I am NOT asking you describe the content you provided for the project. Dig deeper)? What did you receive from the others in your team during this process? What did you learn about yourself from your team experience?

• Which key concepts from the course stood out most for you? What is it about these concepts that resonated with you?

Personal Teaching Philosophy

Everyone has a teaching philosophy whether they know it or not. Even though you may not have experience teaching/ training, you have been a student for many years, you have been in all types of classrooms, and have had all types of teachers. As a result, you have opinions about what works, what does not work, and what you would do if you were teaching/ training others. Think about great teachers you have had who inspired you, and teachers who were not so effective. Reflect on their behaviours and values.
Now reflect on yourself as a future trainer/ facilitator. What are your thoughts about teaching and learning? What are you motivations for teaching? What methods and strategies do you feel are most effective? What values and principles do you hold that will help inform your practice as an educator? What are your personal goals as an educator (trainer/ facilitator)?

Reflective Practice: Application

This section focuses on highlighting your understanding of key concepts and insights gained relating to relevant themes and learning from the course. As you reflect on key learnings moments and key concepts from the course, how would you incorporate/ apply these to your own practice as an adult learner, a facilitator, and as a future HR professional? This is an opportunity for you to communicate depth and understanding of key themes and learnings which resonated for you.