Reflection – Mind mapping

1. Challenge and tools

The tool I chose to use was mind mapping as a tool for visualizing ideas and information. This guide to  Mind Mapping allows executives and managers to save time, get to the point, better structure their  ideas, and manage their projects. I use this method with the pedagogy department of our educational  institution in the development of training programs.

I used it with my teaching colleagues to structure their ideas and gather the different disciplines  around the project. The traditional method for such a project was for each teacher to bring back a part  of the curriculum that they thought would be interesting to include in the teaching project. But the  problem is that sometimes you end up with two similar programs or disagreements between  professors.

2. Application

In the beginning, I gather all the professors concerned by the new training, I announce the project,  and I start the session with a discussion about the objective of creating this new training and the  expectations to form new competencies concerning it

I start a brainstorming session and create the main branches corresponding to the main themes,  semester, module, and module parts. I began by inviting all stakeholders to propose skills and races  related to the disciplinary field of the course. The proposals are then grouped under themes to form  a coherent system articulated around the same central core, illustrating concepts that are close to  each other. The skills that are close or related are grouped in a single box of a course, and then each  course is given a title according to the skills in its list. The next step is to organize my map with the  courses that the previous step specified.

Programme

training

Semester 1

Module 1

Module 2

Course 2

Course 1

Course 1

Course 2

Course 1

•Skill 1 •Skill 2

Course 2

•Skill 1 •Skill 2

Course 3

•Skill 1 •Skill 2

3. Insight

This exercise allowed me to understand the advantage of the Mind Map -because it favors memory  anchoring. It is, therefore, particularly effective in phases where the information is not well defined  or in disarray.

During meetings, the adoption of this approach facilitates structuring, organization, and a global  vision of the project. The program at the end was very rich in skills gathered compared to the  traditional method of developing training programs.

