Social Mastery Development

Author: dash68

Created: 2025-06-06 01:28pm

Edited: 2025-06-07 01:49pm

Keywords: jigsaw, social, mastery, collaborative, learners, self-competence

Description:

In military terms social mastery is considered as the development and application of emotional and social competence through which leaders can generate effective teamwork and via inclusion achieve results.
Designed for implementation in the safety of the training environment to invite innovation and encourage participation in a risk and judgement free environment. It is tailor for the enlisted personnel to explore leadership styles and social competence early in their leadership development. It aims to enhance individual engagement and learning through adaptive and personalised pathways while working collaboratively to explore and solve problems in a variety of military contexts. Learners will have access will have access to a library of resources including doctrine, historic examples of military leadership and studies of leadership on the battlefield.
The approach this design is intended to apply is a collaborative jigsaw approach. Learners will be assigned to syndicates and challenged to investigate different aspects of the same problem or issue. As an example, each team, might be required to analyse a different but related case study, or consider a battlefield from the aspect of either side and develop viewpoints or actions from their aspect. The progression is once learners thoroughly understand their team’s aspect of the problem, they are form into new teams, in which everyone then explains their aspect of the problem in the new group. This way every learner not only has a role to explain/instruct others on their position they also learn from the other team members encouraging a collaborative learning environment and learning the value of social cohesion and valuing others. In this way, every student learns every aspect of the problem. These groups are then able to collaborate to combine the information to present a summary back to the larger course group.

Intended Learning Outcomes:

Build collaborative skills through engagement in problem solving activities and demonstrating the ability to work interdependently within diverse group.
Enhance analytical and research skills by interrogating various forms of information and applying critical thinking to develop new viewpoints and meaning in differing contexts.
A deeper understanding of self-competence through collaborative teamwork and effective knowledge sharing.
Broader social competency through facilitating knowledge sharing with peers.
Influence others to achieve outcomes through personal conduct and communication skills.

Resources	Tasks		Supports
PRE_COURSE LEANER SURVEY
Pre Course Survey	Gather pre-data on learner experience and ↓	←	Online Survey Application Compatible with Defence network

COLLABORATIVE JIGSAW MODEL
Doctrine, studies and readings added to Resources Defence LMS	Access LMS and Defence networks Underpinning knowledge used to go forward and build learning ↓	←	Learner enrolment to LMS User capability checks
Multiuser computer learning hub Breakout space for collaborative activities LMS activity tracking analysis	Generate knowledge of scenarios through reading and individual analysis Prepare own position and present in a collaborative environment Learner engagement with LMS and readings is essential for development ↓	←	Facilitated activities Structure learning journey using a crawl-walk-run framework Tracking usage data against learners and providing ongoing feedback for learner success
Program of activities and learner stagger	Learners to identify tasks and groups and to establish networks ↓	←	IT and LSM support to develop learning program
Provision of learner resources including activity logs, stationary, whiteboards, paper and reflection diaries	Use available resources and tools to develop team cohesion and understanding Record own thoughts and reflections ↓	←	Facilitation of activities Discreet and limited involvement as learning progresses

CULMINATION ACTIVITY AND EVALUATION
Training area, outdoor, gym or such Resources to create obstacles and challenges	Problem solving activities to multi-faceted scenarios requiring both individual and collaborative to progress to final outcome ↓	←	Establish final activity including booking or securing facilities and resources Prepare final activity prior to learner arrival
Online survey tool Classroom or lecture hall	Gater learners' reactions to the course and their reflections on own learning and experience	←	Independent evaluator, to gather unbiased data and ensure privacy and learner comfort

Additional information

A key feature of this design is the recognition of the prior learning and experience that learners will bring at commencement of training. Gathering data on individuals is essential in creating individuals pathways and will aid in creating effective teams that can draw on the unique experiences of team members. Gathering this data commences pre-course by having participants complete a survey to provide insight into their own experiences and knowledge. Learners will be provided with information regarding the use of their personal data and all information will be in accordance with Defence ethical research and privacy policy. This will also apply to evaluation data collected post learning and will be further enforced in the closing facilitation and evaluation forum.