Have you ever thought of making your training content easy enough for your learners to grasp, comprehend and use?
The 4Cs Map is a 4-step instructional design and delivery model that is based on how human beings naturally and normally learn, NOT on outmoded assumptions about human learning. The human brain is hardwired to learn in certain basic ways, regardless of age, gender, nationality, or culture. Here is an overview of the hardwiring.
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- Connections: This is the beginning or opening of a training. It can also include pre-training time as well. During the Connections step, learners make connections with what they already know, or think they know, about the training topic. They also make connections with what they will learn or want to learn with the other learners in the training group, and with you, the trainer.
- Concepts: This is the direct instruction, lecture or presentation part of a training, During the Concepts step, learners take in new information in multi-sensory ways: hearing, seeing, discussing, writing, reflecting, imagining, participating and teaching it to others.
- Concrete Practice: This is the active review that usually follows information delivery. During the Concrete Practice step, learners actively practice a new skill using the new information, participate in an active review of what they have learned and again teach others what they know or can now do.
- Conclusions: This is the wrap-up or closing part of a training. It can also include post-training time as well. During the Conclusions step, learners summarize what they have learned, evaluate it, make a commitment to use it at work or in their lives and end with a short celebration of their learning experience.
4C’s method comes from Sharon Bowman’s Training From Back Of The Room techniques.