LTP

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LTP

• Instructional Design

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Purpose

• The Commandants Leader Training Program (LTP)
  is the training component of the leader
  development program. It equips cadets with the
  skills, abilities, and behaviors associated with
  principled leadership in order to link the
  theoretical leadership knowledge taught in the
  curriculum (ROTC classes, Krause Center classes,
  and courses taught in the academic departments
  and schools) with the practical experiential
  environment exercised in the barracks, athletic
  fields, ROTC labs, and elsewhere.

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LTPs Place
LTP Skills, abilities, and behaviors
Curriculum Knowledge
Experience Action
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LTPs Place

• A platoon leader issues his platoon an oporder to
  do an ambush
• From previous training and now this oporder, the
  platoon collectively and individually has the
  knowledge to do this mission
• Do they consider that knowledge sufficient for
  them to just move out on the mission?
• What do they do in between the oporder and the
  ambush?

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LTPs Place

• A rehearsal is what allows the platoon to
  translate its knowledge into effective action
• In the same way, cadets have the knowledge that
  it is their duty to not tolerate drinking in the
  barracks
• Is that knowledge sufficient for them to do their
  duty if they walk into their room unexpectedly
  and find several classmates drinking?
• All of us would be caught off guard in such a
  situation
• LTP gives us a chance to talk through
  collectively when there is no stress to
  rehearse how we will execute principled
  leadership when we must act alone during stress

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Three Basic LTP Parts

• Provide the factual information necessary to
  understand the subject
• Explain how the subject is applicable to cadet
  life
• Explain how the subject is applicable after
  graduation

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Plagiarism Example

• Provide the factual information necessary to
  understand the subject
• What plagiarism is
• What the Honor Code says about it
• What the College Catalog says about it
• Explain how the subject is applicable to cadet
  life
• Some actual or representative Cadet X and Ys
• Some role playing exercises
• Explain how the subject is applicable after
  graduation
• We assume peoples degrees and certifications
  represent a certain level of competency. If
  instead they plagiarized, they will not be
  equipped to do the assigned task and the results
  may be catastrophic
• Rapelmaster
• Surgeon
• Heavy equipment operator

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Suicide Awareness Example

• Provide the factual information necessary to
  understand the subject
• Warning signs
• Intervention techniques
• Resources available
• Explain how the subject is applicable to cadet
  life
• Some actual or representative Cadet X and Ys
• Some role playing exercises
• Explain how the subject is applicable after
  graduation
• There is no Human Affairs Team in most
  post-graduation organizations
• The things our HA teams do are general leadership
  responsibilities in those organizations
• Show some video about a commander with a suicidal
  soldier, a parent of a child who committed
  suicide, or a video about suicide prevention in
  the workplace such as those available at
  http//actionallianceforsuicideprevention.org/task
  -force/workplace

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Interaction

• The more senses are involved in processing
  information, the more we retain
• Listening, seeing, talking, doing
• Types of interaction we can incorporate into LTP
• Answering closed questions
• Answering open questions
• Analyzing scenarios
• Role playing
• Informal and formal tests and confirmation briefs

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Practical Exercise

• Pick an existing HA or honor LTP
• Discuss how you would redesign it to include the
  following four parts
• Provide the factual information necessary to
  understand the subject
• Explain how the subject is applicable to cadet
  life
• Explain how the subject is applicable after
  graduation
• Interaction exercise

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Way Ahead

• Upgrade all 2nd semester LTPs this semester for
  execution in Spring 2015
• Execute 1st semester LTPs as is with
  improvements around the margins as practicable
• Next semester upgrade 1st semester LTPs for
  execution in Fall 2015

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Contact Info

• LTC (Ret) Kevin Dougherty
• Room 219 Mark Clark Hall
• 843-953-6336
• kevin.dougherty_at_citadel.edu