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PowerPath's innovation instruction and interventions target two essential sets of skills that lead to an individual's ability to be successful in any learning or workplace environment.
PowerPath's Participatory Learning offers a variety of human technologies as new ways to build learning communities in which participants can practice the social capital skills of collaborating, leading, offering help, asking for help, developing and responding to critical thinking questions, taking action, and co-creating social norms/rules. Instructors use Participatory Learning tecnologies to host and facilitate learning of academic or career-based knowledge and skills within the construct of developing and sustaining a community of learners.
PowerPath's SMARTER is intervention process to develop metacognitive skills. The SMARTER aconym provides the structure to learn and practice the steps of problem solving and critical thinking. Using a set of standard questions, following SMARTER lead participants through the tasks to co-create their own learning.
PowerPath’s SMARTER builds needed learning pathways by cultivating the skills to:
- Successfully learn academic or career-specific skills and information
- Plan and manage time effectively
- Establish and accomplish short-term goals
- Learn and work effectively by selecting, applying, and practicing selected adaptations and strategies to overcome identified challenges
- Self reflect and evaluate one's own efforts, steps and processes, and achievements
- Transfer learning from one situation to another
PowerPath is widely recognized as a user-friendly process that models and implements adult learning principles and research-based best practices. PowerPath’s 5 Steps work together to move learners and workers towards:
- Being the creator and manager of their own learning
- Building partnerships with service providers to co-create learning or employment plans
- Selecting, gathering, advocating for and using needed adaptations and strategies
- Building on current knowledge, including breaking down new skills into sequenced steps
and visually mapping content connections
- Practicing social skills with peers and and becoming a co-creating team member
- Creating a learning environments that can maximize personal control and functioning as part of a healthy learning or workplace community
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