Project 2 Reflection

My project was to create a plan that educates other departments on what our team of Front End Developers does within the organization. Front end developers play a specific and unique role within our company. This course highlights basic procedures around how front end development works.
The instruction will be taught as a lecture in a lecture hall type of environment. The lecture will be accompanied by a PowerPoint slideshow that will be displayed during the presentation and will be emailed out to the team as a pdf. The team members will be expected to complete a list of tasks before the presentation is completed to assess their comprehension.

After completing training, team members will have a clear understanding of what Front End Developers do within the company and will have a brief understanding of the basics of how our websites are constructed. This cross-departmental training will help teams work better together.

I ended up with a clean and clear outline and have started turning it into a fully ready presentation that I will present to the teams soon. I am also creating it in a manner that will allow other members of my team to create it as well. This is something that I likely wouldn’t have thought of if I had not taken this course. When creating presentations like this in the past, I have created it in a manner that suits me, and my speaking style. This course taught me to think of the presentation from the learner’s perspective instead. I began thinking about this as a curriculum that was non-reliant on any certain educator.

There are some areas where I struggled throughout the process. For one, I missed key instructions on several occasions. I know that I turned in some assignments in the wrong format and others were missing items. This is something that will need to be tightened up as I continue my education, and as I begin applying principles into my career. It will be vital that I know the expectations of projects and that I have alignment on the desired outcomes. Another area I fell short was timeline management. While I improved over my first semester, I still repeatedly fell behind and turned assignments in late. This was a big contributor to me missing details in expectations.

This course helped me identify the things I need to work on as a trainer or educator. I need to stay on track with timelines. I need to give my projects uninterrupted attention. I need to make sure I have a clear understanding of expectations that are set. And most of all, I need to focus on the learners when I’m building out my presentation and learning course.