About This SiteI created this site as part of my final portfolio project for EDUC 766, "Instructional Strategies and Assessment Methods," one of four courses in UW-Stout's Graduate Certificate program in Instructional Design, which I completed in August of 2013. Read my reflection on that class here.
VISIT MY ID BLOG: This Instructional Design blog was not a requirement for this course, but it is part of my contract work for Learning Road iLearning Services.
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About Me
I'm a published author, speaker, curriculum developer, instructional architect, and founder and executive director of Professional Growth Classes.
— Patty David |
This RECOMMENDATION from one of my UW-Stout instructors offers a summary of my ID skills:
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ABOUT THIS PROJECT:
Understanding Confidentiality: Training for Volunteer Church Office Assistants • Patricia J. David
Problem Identification and Goal
Church office assistants are in the position to overhear a lot of confidential information: prayer requests, donor contributions, conflicts between members or even among the pastoral staff. They have an insider’s look at how the church is run and what pastors’ schedules are like. They also see all the faults and shortcomings of those they work with every day.
Most church office workers are volunteers with little or no training in soft skills such as dealing with confidential issues. But when confidentiality isn’t maintained, it can be disastrous for a church. Church members need to know their personal information is kept private. Pastors need to be assured that their idiosyncrasies aren’t being broadcast to the congregation. Maintaining harmony in the church is dependent upon confidentiality. And most volunteer workers have a vested interest in promoting harmony and rarely realize they’ve breached confidentiality until it’s too late.
My goal is to create a self-contained, self-paced instructional piece for online delivery that will help volunteers understand what it means to maintain confidentiality and why it's important, and also equip them with the resources and motivation to improve in their ability to assess situations and handle them in a way that guards sensitive information.
Target Audience
The target audience for this instruction includes pastors, who may want to share the information with their office assistants, and church volunteers who are already helping in various capacities in their local church, most notably in the church office. General characteristics of these volunteers include:
I plan to offer this instruction as a self-contained, self-paced online course. I’ve chosen this option because it will enable the information to be shared quickly and easily with a great number of churches at no additional design cost. Most churches can’t afford outside training for their volunteers, so the online course option would equip them to offer quality training with good instructional design that would maximize positive results. And because new volunteers usually trickle in one at a time, the online delivery option will allow churches access to immediate training of new volunteers.
Problem Identification and Goal
Church office assistants are in the position to overhear a lot of confidential information: prayer requests, donor contributions, conflicts between members or even among the pastoral staff. They have an insider’s look at how the church is run and what pastors’ schedules are like. They also see all the faults and shortcomings of those they work with every day.
Most church office workers are volunteers with little or no training in soft skills such as dealing with confidential issues. But when confidentiality isn’t maintained, it can be disastrous for a church. Church members need to know their personal information is kept private. Pastors need to be assured that their idiosyncrasies aren’t being broadcast to the congregation. Maintaining harmony in the church is dependent upon confidentiality. And most volunteer workers have a vested interest in promoting harmony and rarely realize they’ve breached confidentiality until it’s too late.
My goal is to create a self-contained, self-paced instructional piece for online delivery that will help volunteers understand what it means to maintain confidentiality and why it's important, and also equip them with the resources and motivation to improve in their ability to assess situations and handle them in a way that guards sensitive information.
Target Audience
The target audience for this instruction includes pastors, who may want to share the information with their office assistants, and church volunteers who are already helping in various capacities in their local church, most notably in the church office. General characteristics of these volunteers include:
- Christians who are active in their church
- Those having the spiritual gifts of mercy, helps and/or administration (genuinely nice people who have a desire to help others and tend to be very relational)
- Predominantly female (though there are some men who hold these positions)
- Generally older (those already retired from vocational employment or those who have never worked outside the home)
- Lower education level (high school or limited college)
I plan to offer this instruction as a self-contained, self-paced online course. I’ve chosen this option because it will enable the information to be shared quickly and easily with a great number of churches at no additional design cost. Most churches can’t afford outside training for their volunteers, so the online course option would equip them to offer quality training with good instructional design that would maximize positive results. And because new volunteers usually trickle in one at a time, the online delivery option will allow churches access to immediate training of new volunteers.
FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENT
In EDUC 765, "Trends and Issues in Instructional Design," I created the document below, which outlines the scope of my project and begins to flesh out the details. This foundational document includes a front-end analysis, objectives and a course map. Understandably, this is not a final view of the completed project, which will be fine-tuned during the entire 8-month graduate certificate program in instructional design at UW-Stout. But it does help you to see where I started so you gain a better perspective of how I worked through the design process over the course of my studies at UW-Stout.
[Note: For some reason Scribd randomly changes fonts in this document. I apologize if you see any inconsistencies in the text below.]
[Note: For some reason Scribd randomly changes fonts in this document. I apologize if you see any inconsistencies in the text below.]