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What is activity-based learning?

Activity-based learning is grounded on the reality that people learn more by doing than by listening and discussing. The skilled use of activity-based learning draws the learner in to real time, real experience learning. Activity-based learning provides problems to solve that are unique and challenging – designed to highlight human behavior in group process: leadership, decision-making, trust, communication, listening, respect, and so on. The behaviors identified and described in the DiSC profile come alive during the activity. Skilled facilitation creates a human behavior lab where learners use their own and others current experience to transform surface awareness into solid learning.

Do you need this? Will it be helpful?

Yes, and yes. If you are a trainer who desires to have lasting impact.

At best, lecture-based classes stimulate awareness, interest, and excitement. Folks try to apply what they are being exposed to by thinking and talking about their experiences and the difference using the awareness of behavior style might make. Intellectual, conversational role plays are good, but not the most effective way to deepen learning.

Activity-based learning provides the opportunity to immediately experience the new awareness in a facilitated process that engages the whole person – experiencing and observing behaviors, emotions; sharing thoughts, success, failure; dealing with style diversity in real time – now. Learners experience the important impact of practicing in progressing from awareness to new skill.

Trainer WIIFM? (What's In It For Me?)

A bonus of activity-based learning is that you, the trainer, spend less time as the center of attention. You set the stage for deep learning by giving the “script” of DiSC information and activity instructions, then step back and observe while the class does the work of immersing themselves into a physically, intellectually and emotionally interactive experience. What you observe and what they experience is the rich material to debrief and solidify the learning. The percentage of time focused on you the trainer shrinks, and the class learns with and from each other based on their shared experience. The questions, answers and discussion points fly from person to person in dynamic energy rather than back and forth between you and individuals in the group. Your role is no less important yet changes from being the “hero” – the one who knows it all – to the learning “guide.” Learners should walk away more excited about what they learned than impressed with how much you know.

by Mary Butler

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How to use activity-based learning to fully engage learners -

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