Lesson Flow
An action a student will perform
The lesson goal
Adults avoid learning situations that make them look weak professionally or personally.
Create empowering spaces
A simple language change that reduces fear of speaking up.
Inclusive language
Allow students to make mistakes
choose benign terrain with ample safety margins
The general name for field observations like: snow fall over 1 inch per hour, winds 15-25mph and/or visible blowing snow, rain, temperatures above 32F, and recent avalanches.
Red Flag observations
Why should students care about what you're going to teach them.
Connect Students to the lesson
Adults learn best when they know where they’re going and how they’ll know they’ve arrived.
Involve them in their learning
Techniques that might call our individuals who already feel 'othered'
- Forced reading out loud
- background assumptions
- humor and language choice
A well-intentioned behavior that can accidentally shut down adult learning.
- over-explaining
- correcting publicly
This is an avalanche large enough to break a few trees
D3
The lesson doesn't exist in isolation. This is how you'll tie it to a larger risk management framework.
Connect the lesson to the course.
This principle explains why scenario-based avalanche problems are more effective than content dumps.
Make it relevant
A field consideration that can strongly affect student comfort and learning. Especially with mixed genders.
- Field bathroom management
This instructor behavior helps students acknowledge uncertainty.
Normalizing not knowing. Be humble
The wind is just strong enough to blow the tops of trees.
moderate
What will students do with the new information
Have them practice
This principle recognizes that experience—including mistakes—is the basis for adult learning.
What is Make Them Do the Thing?
Treat others
How they want to be treated
A simple sign of respect
Learn students names
A _______ is a storm, and an __________ is the old surface of the snowpack.
A layer is a storm, and an interface is the old surface
Target your lesson
Figure out what they know
Avalanche terrain is a _______ learning environment, making it even more important to create a __________ learning environment.
Avalanche terrain is a wicked learning environment, making it even more important to create a positive learning environment.
People don't care how much you know
Until they know how much you care.
The antidote to the fact that lots of what we talk about is serious and consequential
Keep it fun
Shorthand for, a compression test that fails on the 14th tap, and the overlying block slides easily on the underlying column.
CT14(SP)