In healthcare there is a learning mantra educators and trainers often use of ‘see one, do one, teach one’ for physical procedure skills. All workplaces do have procedures and processes that need to be followed. This method is useful in all workplaces. It's a powerful way to structure learning while working and doing based on the timeless apprentice module of learning. There is good learning theory and learning science as to why it works which is what we are going to explore in this blog post.
The ‘see one, do one, teach one practice isn’t perfect. In a follow up post I'll talk about the idea that maybe it should be ‘See one, Practise one, Do one, Teach one’.
See one - Monkey neuron in action