Human Performance and Technology

I am a third year teacher and I teach kindergarten, I would say that a performance problem I face is with my aid that helps out our team.   She has a schedule of what to do, where to be and when and for the most part she follows it.  The problem we have is that if we don’t give her something to do, she disappears and we cannot find her.  We are trying to find a way to get her to stay in our classrooms even if we don’t ask her to do something.  We need her to help monitor and co-teach with us.  I think that if we maybe offer her some time of incentive maybe she would hang around and help a little more.  I think an incentive would work, just as it works with the students we teach, and I know that our principal offers us incentive’s to do things she expects as well.  Sometimes all we need is a blue jean pass to put a little pep in our step so to say.

According to the book performance support can be defined as a system that provides performers with varying levels of access to support information and tools at the moment of need. I think a performance support system would help with my issues.  I think if we had a system in place for our aid maybe she would feel more important and more part of the team.

We need to collaborate as a team and discuss our aid performance. We could each collect data on when she is in our rooms, in her office working, or just MIA.  We could come up with incentives to help keep her on track and meet once a month to evaluate how we think our system is working.

We have had seminars at work that I believe would be considered informal learning.  Usually we are being taught, but in a fun and casual way.  I think most people learn better when they are interested in what they are learning and it is presented in a way that feels more laid back. I believe all learning can be manages in some way or another, but I don’t feel that it is always necessary to do so.  Some times we just need to sit back and let learning take it natural course. If the learner was taught effectively and enjoyed what they learned they would naturally pass on the knowledge to others.