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Communication System Operators

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Communication System Operators are communication professionals within the Royal Corps of Signals; engineering and operating both digital and satellite communication systems, including maintenance of communication networks (British Army, 2014). After phase one training Communication Systems Operators conduct initial trade training, within the Royal School of Signals which consists of both theory and practical training, to which formative and summative performance standards are assessed over 32 weeks of training (DSCIS, 2011). The training establishment is regimented; this is reflected in the education strategies used in the conduct of initial training. The strategies currently used could be considered as, old fashioned, perhaps more …show more content…

Key to the promotion of independent learning is the implementation of whole-school policy at the strategic level, which currently does not exist in any of the documentation mentioned (Department for Children, Schools and Families 2008, 8,). A paper by DSCIS (2013) indicates the challenges to the approach of affordability in times of Defence financial austerity and how the establishment will move toward continuously improving training outputs, by updating training using new technology and learning strategies with the reduction of a number of instructor posts. Now is potentially the time to invest in independent learning as by doing so it lessens the need for students to have direct instructor intervention, with students finding and using learning materials independently creating more cost-effective instruction (Twigg, 1995).

Not only is the support of the establishment important but both the relationship of the teacher and student to successfully promote independent learning (Department for Children, Schools and Families 2008, 2). To overcome some barriers with independent learning, the teachers must understand that independent learning does not undermine their role as instructors, they must overcome the necessity to direct learning in the traditional method and be open minded to new developing methods of learning (Department for Children, Schools and Families 2008, 8,). To achieve this approach

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