Reliable Paper Critical Analysis of case – 2500 word Essay / Assessment Task 1: Leadership Development Report

· Critical review of appropriate HRD models, concepts or theories (12)

· Evaluation and recommendations (14)

· Clarity of writing (6)

· Appropriate acknowledgement of sources (4)

· Overall coherency and quality (8)

Assessment will be undertaken with reference to the ‘course grade requirements’ table listed later in this section.

Note: During the intensive teaching period at the end of January 2014 a number of interactive and formative tasks will be held. You can use these to

· assess your progress especially in terms of key literature about adult and organizational learning

· identify your strengths and weaknesses regarding analysis of literature.

TASK 2 – FACILITATION EXERCISE 50%

Task 2 Component A Group Facilitation Exercise (20% )

Due as arranged.

The purpose of the Group Facilitation Exercise is to develop skills in applying various learning theories, design and delivery methodologies for facilitating or presenting to groups. This is also another opportunity for you to develop skills in teamwork and team leadership.

Groups will be formed under the direction of the class facilitator. In larger classes the group may have approximately ten members. Your group will take on the role of a training and development consultancy company. Your group will identify a topic that should be interesting to the audience, but not too complex for a short presentation. After consideration of the adult learning theories and program design and delivery methodologies covered in class, groups will:

· present a 15 minute learning experience to classmates.

· Ensure that all members of the group must be involved in the design and delivery of the presentation,

· Ensure that the audience is engaged in the presentation.

· Use a maximum of 11 power point slides.

· An additional 2 power point slides should be included. These two slides should outline a mechanism for assessing the understanding of the class. Note – you are not required to present this assessment activity during the group presentation.

The group must provide the lecturer with a copy of the session plan before commencing the exercise. The session plan will explain why the group chose particular learning methodologies and link the presentation design to key topics from the text (e.g., such as ’designing training’, ’evaluating training’, ’adult learning’ etc.). Note: minor adjustments may need to be made to the presentation schedule depending on the size of each class.

Criteria for Group Facilitation Presentations

· Timing (between 13 and 15 minutes)

· Clarity of Learning objectives

· Content and professionalism of learning experience – clearly connected with the literature; professionally presented.

· Quality of audience engagement

· Quality of the visual displays (eg powerpoints, posters)

· Quality of the assessment mechanism

Presentations will likely be held during weeks seven and eight. Students who are unable to attend the group facilitation exercise will receive zero marks for that task unless they are able to present to the lecturer a statement signed by all group members attesting to the fact that they completed a fair component of the preparation work AND other suitable documentation or explanation to account for their absence (such as a medical certificate). Students who are unable to attend on presentation day will be required to undertake a supplementary task if they wish to make up the 20% of marks allocated to the group presentation.

Task 2 Component B – 1500 word individual reflection paper (30%)

Due: The reflection paper is due the week following your presentation.

The reflection paper is intended to encourage you to think about the presentation and your own role in the exercise. This assessment task aims to ensure that you engage in critical reflection and knowledge creation (you will learn that this is called ‘explication’).

In this assessment task you need to reflect on your experience in the presentation, both from your perspective as a designer, developer or facilitator, and as an audience member. You will need to:

· discuss the various learning methodologies employed;

· describe those that you find most successful, and those which you may have found difficult;

· summarise what you have learned from the experience.

Those students who have not completed a reflective paper (also known as a reflective journal) before will find guides completion on the course learning hub site. This suggested format is based on the tutorial about Reflective Journals on the RMIT Learning Lab.

1. What happened? (approximately 250 words)

2. Interpretation (approximately 450 words)

3. Evaluation (approximately 500 words)

4. Plan (approximately 300 words)

Criteria for Reflection Paper

· Quality of the description – What happened?

· Quality of the Interpretation – what insights did I gain? How does this connect with previous learnings? What does this mean? How does this connect with learning theories?

· Quality of the Evaluation – what is the value of the experience? Why? So what?

· Quality of the Plan – How might this learning help me in the future (studies, career, life)?

Other Relevant Information

This Course Guide should be read in conjunction with all RMIT Policies. These are accessible on the RMIT Corporate Governance Website.

ASSESSMENT

Students must submit all pieces of assessment to pass the course.

Submission of Assignments

All assessment tasks must include your name in the footer, pages must be numbered.

Assessment Task 1:

Soft Copy only– due by 1700 on 21 March 2014 via the course shell on MyRMIT

· This is considered the official version of the assignment.

· File name: student number_family name Task1.doc

· Include the list of references/bibliography – Turnitin has been instructed to ignore this part of the essay.

· Turnitin small matches – Turnitin has also been instructed to ignore small matches.

Assessment Task 2

A – Group Presentation

Hard copy to local lecturer

B Individual Reflection:

Soft Copy to MyRMIT + Hard Copy to SIM

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