Looking Back | Tracking Proficiency
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Taxonomies, whether cognitive, affective, psychomotor, or proficiency, is intended to simply allow for classification to be both easy and concrete. While this is helpful to the deeply self-aware, it is intended as a tool for anybody tasked to moving people’s [knowledge, emotion, physical capability, or skill] from one concrete level to the next.
There is a lot to be said about intuition and experience, but the presence of taxonomies help us create reliable roadmaps and even in-the-moment understanding.
Next week’s learning series published on Working Wednesdays is all about engaging learners at each skill level, so for that to be successful, it is important track their proficiency levels well.
Recognizing the Signals
Recently I’ve been banging on about the proficiency taxonomy, specifically the Green Path that can help meet people where they’re at.
We Learn in the Messy Part
In a world that celebrates speed and efficiency, it’s easy to view learning as a straight path to a final destination. For coaches, trainers, and change agents especially, there’s a constant push to accelerate progress and quickly check off milestones. But this focus on reaching the end often results in no real change. Learning sticks when we experience…