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A Universal Structure for Skill-Building Workshops
The sole justification for teaching . . . is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn’t lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.
——Jacques Barzun1
This chapter describes a universally applicable workshop structure for skill-building workshops that can help trainers integrate content and process in any skill-development area. This workshop structure is composed of units, modules, and components.
Units: The overall title of the material to be taught.
Modules: A section of a unit.
Components: The seven parts of a module.
Sorry about the jargon. We avoid it wherever possible ...
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