Case Study:Municipal Officials

Peg Hasted, Allison Hone,Pradeep Kalsi, Jeff Moggach,

Dave Sanders

Problem Outline Statement

Background Course Design and

Format Teaching and

Learning Models Recommendations

The provincial government has expressed a need for municipalities to develop a pandemic preparedness initiative.

Context

Background

Fort St. John Local government Current emergency

preparedness

Course Format and Assumptions

Elected officials and heads of municipal departments will require training

The preparation course should be offered once each year (or as needed)

Hours and/or pay should be adjusted to accommodate and encourage attendance

Pandemic Preparedness Course

The course will be mandatory for all elected officials and will be recognized with a certificate of completion

The delivery format will include both face-to-face and online methods

Learning materials will be offered online with a paper-based option

Learner Assumptions

The adult learners in this program will: Have a mixed level of formal education Have a variety of learning styles Respond best to a well-organized

program with clear expectations and applications

Exhibit varying levels of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

Kolb’s Learning Styles

Kolb: an Inclusive Learning Model Accommodative

Learners:Hands-on learners

Convergent Learners:Factual, goal-based learners

Divergent Learners:Big picture, social learners

Assimilative Learners: Conceptual learners

RecommendationsPandemic Preparedness course

to be mandatory for all municipal officials and employees

Effectiveness of training: method for collecting and assessing feedback from learners after completion of the training

Recommendations

Certificate training to be certified by the province of British Columbia

Pandemic planning be added to the Emergency Program Act [RSBC 1996] and "disaster" to be amended to include pandemics

Fort St. John will be prepared for

a pandemic.

WILL YOU?

References Emergency Program Act, R.S.B.C. 1996. www.fortstjohn.ca The Kolb Cycle and Learning Styles.

(2005). Retrieved August 4, 2010 fromhttp://

www.learningtechnologies.ac.uk/e_ffective_teaching/southbirmingham/kolb_alpha_release/kolb/kolb_cycle_styles.htm

References MacKeracher, D. (2004). Making sense of

adult of adult learning (Second ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Smith, M. K. (2002). Malcolm Knowles, informal adult education, self-direction and andragogy. The encyclopedia of informal education. Retrieved from www.infed.org/thinkers/et-knowl.htm