In life, change is inevitable. Your reaction to that change can dramatically impact not only your outcome but your success down the road.
That’s why it’s crucial to focus on building resilience within yourself, your staff, and your students.
Resilience is what gives us the strength to cope with the stressors and hardships around us and bounce back from them. While resilience will not help to eliminate the stressors in your life, it will help you to develop productive ways to process and recover from traumatic events.
The tricky part about resilience is that it’s not something that comes naturally to everyone. You must actively work towards it to build the skill within you which is very achievable if you put in the time and effort. One such strategy involves reframing your approach to training and learning. By embracing a Blended Learning approach, you can give yourself, your staff, and your students, the resources they need to hone their own skills and resilience.
What is Blended Learning?
Blended Learning is the combination of online learning approaches mixed with offline, in-person instruction. This approach offers individuals more control over the time, place, and pace of their experience, granting them the power to dictate their own path. By combining online learning with instructor-led sessions, participants enjoy a blend of e-learning and traditional learning.
The future of work is gearing up to be flexible, and your approach to learning and development should follow suit. Blended Learning opens the door to more growth and training opportunities since it works around the needs and schedules of the individual.
Building Resilience with Blended Learning
When it comes to building resilience, the key is to promote a culture of flexibility. Learning how to manage sudden changes and setbacks is crucial to be prepared for when a disruptive event comes about. And, as we discussed earlier above, blended learning is a highly flexible and customizable approach to learning and development. Your staff will see benefits from following a blended learning approach like:
Reduced spending — web-based training is more cost-effective and easier to access than traditional learning strategies. Without conventional barriers like location and cost, participants enjoy access to a greater number of opportunities.
Customized training — your staff and students are in charge of their development path and the time it takes to achieve it. By focusing on the areas of training they need most, they can increase the likelihood of knowledge retention.
If the events of the past few years have shown us anything, it’s how quickly our routines can change. After having had to adjust to remote work, virtual learning, online classes, and zoom sessions, we’ve seen that offering a digital platform for training and collaboration works. With easier access to information and communication tools, everyone can navigate their own growth and development path.
Implementing Blended Learning at Your School
The nice thing about implementing blended learning into your curriculum? It’s simple! All you need to do is follow four simple steps.
Survey Your Staff and Students
Talk with staff, students, and leaders to gather insight into their professional development goals. What do they hope to learn more about? How best do they retain information? What method of learning do they prefer? Use these answers to identify their needs and what they hope to improve upon.
Discuss Your Approach
Now that you know what participants want to improve upon, talk with them about how best to work together to obtain this goal. Are you able to provide them with an e-learning solution so that they can learn on their own time? Or is an instructor-led course more fitting? Collaborate to build out an approach to learning that works for both parties.
Combine Strategies
The glory of blended learning is that it combines all of the resources and flexibility of virtual learning with all of the support and insight of instructor-led courses. This means that you can incorporate all your educational resources to help staff and students grow within their skills.
Gather Feedback
Before, during, and after each stage of the development cycle, you should talk to the participants and gather feedback on the process. Have you been providing everything that they need to further their learning? What parts of the process are working well, and which need improvement? Are there enough of both online resources and in-person opportunities? Once you have the answers to questions such as these, you can begin adjusting your strategy for the future.
A highly skilled, highly resilient staff is possible, and teaching resilience and self-help to students will prove invaluable to their future success. If you devote ample time and energy, you can devise a solid development strategy. By embracing a flexible approach to learning and development like blended learning, you can start strengthening the independence and resilience of your staff and students. The result? A more talented workforce that is better equipped to withstand any disruptions the future may bring.
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