Welcome to My Learning Log
Welcome to my personal log about my learning experience in the US and my learnning results on HRD. The learning log mainly focuses on five sections, including Concept Building, Practice Makes Perfect, Experience is the Best Teacher, Appreciate Assessment and Theories, and Be an Educator.
Concept Building - What is HRD?In General, HRD is a practice that combines training, organization development, and career development efforts to encourage improvement of individual, group, and organizational performance. However, everyone has his personal perspective about HRD. In this case, before getting deep into my studies I had to form my own understanding about the basics of HRD concepts. This section introduces my fundamental understanding of HRD from different aspects and scales.
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Practice Makes Perfect - Learn by Doing |
Experience is the Best Teacher - Sharing and Personal ExperienceLife has it certain milestones that
people reach and stop briefly to analyze where they are going and where they
have been. I believe experience is the best teacher, and I enjoy learning from and
sharing gains and failures in life. Most of the greatest learning that has happened
in my HRD study is from listening, sharing, teamwork, brainstorming, and
reflection. This section emphasizes on the importance of sharing and personal
experience, and provides a glance of my gains from others’ experience.
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Appreciate Assessment and TheoriesAssessment methods and theories are crucial in HRD
researches and practices. From my understanding, HRD assessment methods and
theories are orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains,
evaluates and predicts people’s behavior and interventions. They are important
tools to provide organizing framework and sound basis for HRD interventions,
practical actions, and researches. This section opens a door to a
fundamental understanding of some HRD theories that I have used in my study.
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Be an Educator - Adult LearningAfter taking adult learning courses and
having inspired conversations with my peers, my perception towards teaching changed
to a more gracious way. I realize although teaching is one of the most exhausting
jobs I have ever had, it is one of the most rewarding jobs I will ever do in
the future. And my understanding of teachers is no longer people who stand in
front of a whiteboard. Besides conveying knowledge and skills, teachers are
also counselors, mentors, nurses, first responders, and even life protectors. The
last section presents my understandings and reflections of adult learning step
by step according to the contents of my study and readings.
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