Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
January 05, 2021 | by: Andrea Lythgoe, LCCE
Today, please enjoy the seventh and final post in the series: Better Childbirth Education By Design, a special Connecting the Dots series written by skilled educator LCCE Andrea Lythgoe. Andrea has been a frequent contributor to Connecting the Dots over the years with some very popular and informative posts. Instruction design is a field that applies systematic approaches to planning education. Lots has been written about its use in a wide variety of fields, from K-12 education to higher education, corporate training and even the US military. In this series - Better Childbirth Education by Design, Andrea introduces readers to a very common model of instructional design, called ADDIE, and demonstrate how childbirth educators can use this process to create and refine your childbirth classes. Today, Andrea discusses evaluating your course offerings to help you evaluate and adjust your curriculum. To find the entire Better Childbirth Education By Design series, follow this link. - Sharon Muza, Connecting the Dots Community Manager.
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December 03, 2020 | by: Andrea Lythgoe, LCCE
Today, please enjoy the sixth post in the series: Better Childbirth Education By Design, a special Connecting the Dots series written by skilled educator LCCE Andrea Lythgoe. Andrea has been a frequent contributor to Connecting the Dots over the years with some very popular and informative posts. Instruction design is a field that applies systematic approaches to planning education. Lots has been written about its use in a wide variety of fields, from K-12 education to higher education, corporate training and even the US military. In this series - Better Childbirth Education by Design, Andrea introduces readers to a very common model of instructional design, called ADDIE, and demonstrate how childbirth educators can use this process to create and refine your childbirth classes. Today, Andrea discusses using a modular way of activity planning to help you select activities and adapt on the fly when necessary. To find the entire Better Childbirth Education By Design series, follow this link. - Sharon Muza, Connecting the Dots Community Manager.
November 10, 2020 | by: Andrea Lythgoe, LCCE
Better Childbirth Education by Design, Andrea introduces readers to a very common model of instructional design, called ADDIE, and demonstrate how childbirth educators can use this process to create and refine your childbirth classes. Today, Andrea discusses creating the "chunks" of time and planned activities that make up your time together with your families.
So you know what your learners want and need, you know what you want to do with your class, and you’re ready to start pulling together a curriculum and planning how you’re going to teach. Start thinking about your strategies for teaching and plan a variety of activities and materials to support your objectives.
October 13, 2020 | by: Andrea Lythgoe, LCCE
Bloom's Taxonomy is a classic in education. It describes the cognitive processes that people go through as they learn. (It doesn’t address attitudes or skills, it’s focused on knowledge.) The original Bloom’s Taxonomy was created in the mid 1950s and revised in 2001. For this article, I am focusing on the newer 2001 version.
September 02, 2020 | by: Andrea Lythgoe, LCCE
Better Childirth Education By Design Series: Andrea Lythgoe discusses an easy to follow template for writing clear and useful "terminal" learning objectives. Your first step in design is to decide what your overall goal for your classes is. Instructional designers call these “terminal objectives” as they are your end goal. It is important to write your objectives about what the STUDENTS will come out of the class with, so that your class remains focused on meeting their needs over what you do for the class.
August 06, 2020 | by: Andrea Lythgoe, LCCE
The first thing you should do when you start planning a new class offering or updating a previous one is to take some time and think about what you have to work with, so that any plans you make will work well.
July 08, 2020 | by: Andrea Lythgoe, LCCE
ADDIE is a five step process for designing trainings and education that has been used in other settings for many years. The system can also be used to help you develop and refine your childbirth classes. When ADDIE was first developed, it was created more as a “waterfall” style method, each step coming in turn. When you are initially developing your classes, this can be a good way of thinking about it, especially if you plan on revisiting the waterfall process 2 or more times as you adjust and revise to incorporate the feedback from the evaluations. This process can work well for one time events as well, like a training or conference.
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