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Rey Carr adds (Mar 2005): "Back in the early 1970s I taught
classes called Parent Effectiveness Training. I was trained as an
instructor by (and is another to suggest) Tom Gordon, probably
now called the Gordon Effectiveness Institute. Trainers often met
together to discuss various issues associated with experiences
and improving the curriculum. One of our group talked about
four learning stages as unconscious incompetent through
unconscious competent. However, I came up with a different
model at the time because we thought the language of that four
stage model might be too jargon like for the parents we worked
with in the classes. The model I developed, which we then
adapted for our training materials was also a four stage model,
but the stages were (are) unskilled, skilled, competent,
expert. In the unskilled stage the learner didn't know what to
do, why it might be necessary or valuable to use the skill and if
they did try it, would give up very quickly if encountering any
difficulty whatsoever. In the skilled stage the learner would be
able to perform the skill with some consistency, but often did so
in a robotic or formulaic fashion. In the competent stage the
learner was able to perform the skill with great consistency, but
was mostly a clone of the person who taught them how to do it.
The learner strongly resisted alternative ways to perform the
skill and was strongly connected to the original teacher. In the
expert stage the learner finally found his or her own voice or
style and was continually modifying the skill to fit circumstances,
new learning, and context. Thus while the group of us started out
using the unconscious competence model, eventually each of us
(like myself) went past the wording of the model and became
"expert" in learning stages (no longer needing to explain it the
same way we originally heard it..)" (Ack Rey Carr)
Jillian Duncan suggests (April 2005) the conscious competence
model relates to the work of Professor Albert Bandura, a
pioneer of socil cognitive theory, human efficacy and 'mastery'.
(Ack J Duncan) [Following on from this suggestion I asked
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