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Judith Erdman // Design Document //February 28, 2010 //


 * Course/Program Title: //Utilizing Mindfulness-Based Awareness Practices (MAPs) in the Instructional Design and Delivery Process //**

This course is for instructors, teachers, trainers, instructional designers, curriculum and course developers who want to foster a direct, experiential understanding of Mindfulness-Based Awareness Practices (MAPs) with application to the design and delivery of training and education. Mindfulness is the practice of being aware and attentive to the present moment without emotional reactivity or disturbance. Through readings, discussion, direct mindfulness-based awareness practice, individual and group activities and a variety of daily MAP exercises, students will explore the powerful tool of mindfulness, which has demonstrated improvements in attention, teaching and learning. Efforts in mindfulness practice have been proven to enhance psychological resilience, refine self-regulation, support emotional management and reduce stress. In this course, students will learn and use a range of MAPs to cultivate the capacity for attention and awareness of body, emotions and mind. These practices fundamentally strengthen optimal conditions for course development, teaching and learning. Course caps at 15 students. Registration by permission of instructor. Initial intake interview required.
 * Course description: **

The primary goal of this course is to initiate the establishment of a personal mindfulness-based awareness practice (MAP) and cultivate focused awareness in professionals involved in the design and delivery of training, education and professional development. The purpose is to practice "being present" in every aspect of learning and teaching.
 * Course goal:**

By fully participating in this course, educational professionals will have the opportunity to:
 * Course Objectives** [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
 * Experiment in a learning environment that promotes self-appreciation, openness, presence and direct compassion.
 * Discuss various psycho-social benefits of Mindfulness-Based Awareness Practices (MAPs)
 * Synthesize and describe their own personal approach to mindfulness practice.
 * Demonstrate the capacity for aiming and sustaining attention, as well as redirecting the mind.
 * Describe the effects that mindfulness practice has in activating brain circuits that underlie resilience, well-being, empathy and compassion.
 * Identify and describe when and how mindfulness practice informs their instructional design and delivery process.

Intended audience: ** Educational professionals: instructors, teachers; training specialists; instructional designers; curricula and course developers; materials specialists; educational administrators; students and others in the arena of teaching and learning. Learners should have a working knowledge of the fundamentals of instructional design and curriculum development. No prior experience with Mindfulness-Based Awareness Practice (MAPs) is necessary.
 * 

Online synchronous and asynchronous methods.
 * Delivery method: **

Media to be used: Text; still images; video; audio (podcast) and other multimedia; PowerPoint and Adobe Presenter; You Tube Video. ** ////
 * Instructional approach/strategies/methods:

Pre- and post-course questionnaires; articles; bibliography; resources list; practice CDs; pocket practice cards; support materials; tin-sha bells or singing bowl; raisins; Nine-dots puzzle; personals journals; Field of Awareness (FOA) activity sheets; icecubes; yoga mats. **
 * Instructional materials:

Orient each student to course agenda and obtain completed pre-course questionnaire.
 * Lesson content outline **
 * **Topic ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Goal/Objectives ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Activities ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Media ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Readings/Resources ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Assessment ** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Pre-Course Intake Interview (phone) || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">**The goal(s) of this lesson are:**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">During this interview, students will be able to: Breathing Awareness || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">The goal(s) of this lesson are: ** <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Engage in personal introductions profile and activity.
 * Objectives:**
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Dialogue with the instructor about their motivation and commitment to full class participation in MAPs.
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Complete and submit pre-course questionnair || * Complete and submit pre-course questionnaire.
 * Receive permission # for course registration.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Register for course.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Prepare for course by obtaining items on the "materials checklist".
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Complete and submit Intake Assessment. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Weekly MAP cards (laminated) || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">"Materials Needed" list || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><Explain the means of assessment to be used for the lesson> //
 * Complete the pre-course questionnaire.
 * (Complete the Intake Assessment) ||
 * //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Module 1 //

Establish a foundation of MAP that connects students directly to the gross experiences of breathing and the breath as an anchor for MAP. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">**Objectives:** Upon completion, students will be able to: //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> list any media you will create or acquire for the lesson> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><List any readings or resources for the lesson> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><Explain the means of assessment to be used for the lesson> // || · //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Upon completion, students will be able to: · //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // · //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><list any activities that support the objective(s)> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><list any media you will create or acquire for the lesson> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><List any readings or resources for the lesson> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><Explain the means of assessment to be used for the lesson> // ||
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Complete personal profile and greet others.
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Describe what their understanding of MAPs is.
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">List risks & benefits of MAPs.
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Compare differences between mindfulness and mindlessness.
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">List specific reasons why the breath is used as an anchor in MAPs.
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Identify personal experience of mindful breathing practice || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><list any activities that support the objective(s)> // || * PowerPoint Presentation on Defining Mindfulness; Mindfulness vs Mindlessness; Risks & Benefits of MAPs; "Why the Breath";
 * //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">2-min Video on 3-part, diaphramatic breathing. //
 * //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Podcast on Guided Breathing Practice. //
 * //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">The goal(s) of this lesson are:

· //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Upon completion, students will be able to: · //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // · //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><list any activities that support the objective(s)> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><list any media you will create or acquire for the lesson> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><List any readings or resources for the lesson> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><Explain the means of assessment to be used for the lesson> // || · //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Upon completion, students will be able to: · //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // · //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><list any activities that support the objective(s)> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><list any media you will create or acquire for the lesson> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><List any readings or resources for the lesson> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><Explain the means of assessment to be used for the lesson> // || · //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Upon completion, students will be able to: · //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // · //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><list any activities that support the objective(s)> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><list any media you will create or acquire for the lesson> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><List any readings or resources for the lesson> // || //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><Explain the means of assessment to be used for the lesson> // ||
 * //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">The goal(s) of this lesson are:
 * //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">The goal(s) of this lesson are:
 * //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> // || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">The goal(s) of this lesson are: