Staff Development & Training
As Instructional Designer, I design staff development and training. Writing workshops ensure consistent style tone and usage.
Topics covered:
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Clarifying Purpose: Knowledge Check vs. Skill Check
Aligning Questions with Learning Objectives
Rigor or Ridiculous?
Rigor ≠ Confusion
Spotting the Pitfalls- Common Examples
Spotting the Pitfalls- Common Issues
Why Bloom's Matters for Assessment
The 6 Levels of the Cognitive Domain
Beyond Recall
What is the Psychomotor Domain?
When Knowledge Isn't Enough
The 5 Levels of the Psychomotor Domain
Balance Thinking & Doing
Why Scenarios Matter
Characteristics of a Good Scenario-Based Assessment
Assessment Creation Workshop
Tools: PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop
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Situation:
Needs analysis indicated a need for a comprehensive workshop on how to write assessments that actually measure skill acquisition. While peer reviewing assessments that other L&D team members created, I realized they didn't understand or use Bloom's Taxonomy in their questioning.
Approach:
This was a 1-session live Instructor Led Training. I created training based on Bloom's Taxonomy specifically focused on the Psychomotor Domain, while also explaining the use (and overuse) of the cognitive domain. I provided handouts afterwards with the Psychomotor Domain pyramid and with questions stems for better assessment creation.​
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I emphasized the importance of scenario-based questions so that we could measure our learners' ability to complete tasks in their daily roles.
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Result:
Positive feedback concerning how to write questions. I also noted great improvement in the types of questions my team members were creating.​​
Writing Workshops
Tools: PowerPoint, Word
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Situation:
Needs analysis indicated that the L&D team needed training on writing, style, grammar and professional communication. I wrote a proposal, and was approved to create a writing workshop for the L & D staff.
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Approach:​
This was a 3-week, live Instructor Led Training. For each topic, I had an accompanying exercise so the learners could get hands-on experience applying the skill and receive immediate feedback.
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This training was a significant revision of the Writing Workshop I conducted for The Green Book Project staff (scroll down to see an excerpt). It took into account the various issues that I'd encountered when proof reading the team members' documents and writing samples. ​​​
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Result:
Two-fold decrease in revision rates. Whereas it was common for certain member of the team to have to revise document 3-4 times, this dropped to only 1 or at most 2 revisions after the workshop.
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Team members' feedback was overwhelmingly positive with all reporting that their confidence and understanding of writing and grammar rules was significantly improved.
Topics covered:
​Day 1: Punctuation
Commas, Semicolons, Colons, Quotation Marks, Parentheses, Capitalization, and Periods
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Day 2: Writing
Process Writing
Persuasive Writing
Active Voice/Passive Voice
Voice & Tone
Wordiness
Redundancy
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Day 3: Professional Communication
Colloquial Language
Parallel Structures
Outlines
Final Recommendations: Style Guides, Online Writing Assistants, etc.
Tools: Canva, Notion
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Situation:
Needs analysis indicated a need for a comprehensive writing and grammar workshop.
Approach:
This was a live 2-session Instructor Led Training. For each topic, I had accompanying exercises for the learners to gain hands-on immediate practice and receive immediate feedback.
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I created a training package for the staff and CEO of The Green Book Project. The course was focused on the most common issues I encountered during peer review of marketing copy, website copy, and social media posts. ​
Topics covered:
​Process Document Writing
Persuasive Writing
Conversational Copywriting
Active/Passive Voice
Voice and Tone
Punctuation: Commas, Semicolons, Colons, Question Marks
Style: Wordiness, Redundancy, Jargon & Colloquialisms, Parallelism
Visual Appeal
Final Recommendations: Style Guides, Online Writing Assistants, etc.