Rapid Prototype and Change Leadership

Ruben Ramos 11 Mar 10 8:47 PM MST
Mike,
I remember the topic of 'change leadership" during the Organizations course with Dr. Hazari. I am sure that implementing a Rapid Prototype (RP) intervention for improving the situations that I have described would meet with resistance to change.
Convincing the lab instructors to help with implementing the change is the biggest leadership challenge. We have the time and the resources with which to move forward.

Time is not an issue because students attend 60 contact hours for practical skills training. Resources are not the problrm because the lab is equipped with state of the art equipment, both manual and automated. The school administration allows for instructor overtime as needed.

I substituted for one of my top instructors last week. According to the course schedule for Anatomy & Physiology II, the topic was the "Blood System". Over the years I have noted that students in the advanced lab courses have had problems with this same topic. Instead of lecturing for the entire hour, I turned on the computer and projector to google image "Blood Smear". The hundreds of slides provided with visual images of blood cells in normal and various pathological states. To my surprise this simple intervention resulted in a very positive learning experience for the students. If this is a rough example of the RP intervention at work, then I guess I've used it to some degree.