TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

ASSIGNMENT

4MAT MODEL OF ENGAGEMENT

AND TRAINING PEDAGOGY

MOBASHREEN M I S
MBA II YEAR
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DATE: 01/10/2020
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The 4MAT model was originally developed by Bernice McCarthy in 1980. It is
based on research from many fields, but mainly is a synthesis of findings from
the fields of learning styles, and right and left brain dominance. It is a
framework for learning that helps educators deliver information in more
dynamic and engaging ways. It entails the use of right and left-mode strategies
within four distinct phases of the learning cycle
1. Experiencing
2. Conceptualising
3. Applying
4. Refining
PERCEIVING AND PROCESSING

Perceiving
The ways people take in new information occurs in a wide variety of ways, all
of which range between experience and conceptualisation.
Experience – Perception by personal engagement – sensations, emotions,
physical memories; the immediate, the self. Being in it.
Conceptualisation – The translation of experience in conceptual forms – ideas,
language, hierarchies, naming systems. An abstract approach to learning. Being
apart from it. The interplay between the “feeling” of experience and the
“thinking” of conceptualisation is crucial to the learning process. It connects
the personal values and perceptions of learners to those of expert learners.
Processing
What people do with new information also occurs in a wide variety of ways, all
of which range between reflection and action.
Reflection – Transforming knowledge by structuring, ordering, intellectualising.
Action – Applying ideas to the external world; testing, doing, manipulating.
The complete 4MAT model is an integration of learning style in a sequence
that follows the natural cycle of learning. Starting from one moving around to
four, answering the question of each style.

INNOVATIVE LEARNERS – perceive with sensing and feeling and process

reflectively. They need to answer the question, Why?
ANALYTIC LEARNERS – perceive with thinking and process reflectively. They
need the facts and answer the question, What?
COMMON SENSE LEARNERS - perceive with thinking and process actively. They
need to see real-world relevance and answer the question, How?
DYNAMIC LEARNERS – perceive with senses and feeling and process actively.
They need to answer the question, If?

AS A TRAINER,
The 4MAT model of learning provides me with a framework to guide learners
in the use of their individual, inherent learning abilities in order to assimilate
useful knowledge. Role of the trainer and activities used in each phase of
learning change as people move through this cycle.
First, I’ll incorporate the complete 4MAT cycle
By assigning an initial exercise that lays the foundations of why a particular
topic will be relevant, taking theory and explaining what the concept is, giving
opportunities for participants to practice how to apply the knowledge they
have learnt, providing an opportunity for participants to adapt the newly
learned skill themselves. What if they try applying their new skills in a new
context?
In a training session, I’ll be having trainees in all four categories, first I will
make sure that giving the reason why this training is being conducted so that
why group will know why do they need this, presentations and orally
describing will be useful for what group, how group will not be bothered
about theories being explained but they will do their best where they are doing
it , what if people will learn by self-Discovery so that I can see the activities
performed by them will be different and unique which I haven’t asked for.