Debrief

• Being in the moment for reading tasks begins with AWARENESS: awareness of your purpose, awareness of your strategies, awareness of your habits.
• Being in the moment requires replacing passive reading with active reading.

What strategies did you use?

• Did you reorganize the data?
• Did you engage your senses?
• Did you use repetition?

Safety and Workplace Reading:

Previewing Exercise

Previewing sets the stage for recall and comprehension and reduces stress. How does it reduce stress? The reader sees the scope of the task quickly; we are more stressed by what we don’t know. It is also the first step in tackling a large quantity of reading. Previewing is done to acquire a quick visual survey. A preview:

• can determine the purpose and strategy for further reading.
• aids comprehension and recall.
• tackles a large quantity of information faster.
• may be all that is necessary.

Once previewing is taught in the workshop, all the reading encountered including trades books in the classroom, is previewed.

For the trainer:
a simple 5 minute preview can save time and promotes a greater understanding and confidence for the employee. Encouraging questions from the preview reveals levels of understanding that may require further training or upgrading.

Activity

Use a safety handbook or other instructional document used by all employees/learners in the group.
Tell them to take 3 minutes to preview the document using the steps outlined below.