There are varied steps and principles in creating a training curriculum for a company's staff development and training module. Should the company hire the services of a curriculum planner or one that has knowledge about it? Or should they just assign someone from the training department, whether or not he or she has such background?
Hi Olivia
Basic principles of curriculum design is appropriate in most education programs. When you have to design a company's training module, you will have to answer the same questions as if you prepare a module in in university course. May I suggest Kern et al – A six step approach (2009) as starting point?
Markus
Olivia
Curriculum principles remain the same for any domain. However what is required is the subject expert who can identify what is needed to be communicated to your employees. That way you will be a better planner, if only you can get hold of some important considerations that need to be adhered for curriculum planning. There are some excellent resources on the web which you can utilize. For example see these:
http://gototheexchange.ca/index.php/curriculum-overview/curriculum-models-and-design-principles
https://www.teachervision.com/special-education/teaching-methods/3776.html
http://ugc.truman.edu/projects/commission/Curriculum_Design_Principles.pdf
Follow any of these advises, and you will be able to develop the needed curriculum.
For U.S. Army TRADOC, there are education specialists with master's degrees involved in instructor development, essentially helping trainers become facilitators. Yet it is the instructors with the background, experience, and expertise that actually teach the students. It certainly does not hurt the instructor to have a master's degree in education of their own.
These specialists work at higher echelons and help relay the change initiated by TRADOC, for there has been a new initiative, ALM 2015, by which all Army TRADOC units must comply by 2015.
If your organization cannot support such a design, or cannot support the outside hiring of a curriculum developer, it does not mean that the training department cannot implement new initiatives from leadership using an effective teaching methodology. Nageswara has provided ample resources, and the bulk of Markus' reference to Kern can be found here:http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=yEd7XsJbYwwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Kern,+2009&ots=hGSesiKHFx&sig=bqIzQkZflh3Q5W9W6SRPbMfUQhs#v=onepage&q=Kern%2C%202009&f=false
It is a google book, so some pages will be missing.
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