Evidence-Based Training Methods

Chapter 14

Teaching Procedures

What Are Procedures?

The Anatomy of a Directive Lesson

Performance Support for Procedures

Reference Support for Procedural Tasks

Problem Solving or Explanations First?

Applying Methods for Teaching Procedures in Your Training

 

Give the learner immediate feedback. Break down the task into small steps. Repeat the directions as many times as possible. Work from the most simple to the most complex tasks. Give positive reinforcement.

—from Technology of Teaching

Sound familiar? These instructional prescriptions were written more than 50 years ago by B.F. Skinner, the father of behaviorist psychology. Behaviorism is the foundation for the core instructional methods to teach procedures using a directive design.

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