Environmental

Analysis

Defining the Learning Environment

for Non-Traditional Learners

Learning

Environment

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What is your “learning environment”?

•Tell us about your classroom, lab, or field

station!

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What’s your ideal learning environment?

•Now tell us about your ideal classroom, lab,

or field station.

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Optimal, necessary, & optional

•For a great training experience, start by visioning an optimum learning environment

•Differentiate between environmental aspects that are necessary and aspects that are optionalfor training success

•Obtain accurate information about the environment you will be teaching in

•Determine how many necessary aspects you will have available & how you will compensate for what’s missing.

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Getting accurate information

•To determine what’s optimal & necessary:

interview subject matter experts and trainers.

•To determine what will actually be available:

interview individuals with first-hand

knowledge about the training location.

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Creating an Environmental Analysis

•What varieties of training environments do

we need to consider?

•What do we already know about each

training environment?

•Using the information available, complete the

detailed Environmental Analysis.

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Trainer Profile

The trainer(s) for a program are an important

part of the learning environment.

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