Performance support / Partner learning teams
Adapt with purpose
Use these questions to prepare an adaptation for review with partners and the relevant technical lead.
1. Name the need
What makes the current material hard to use? Ask intended users about language, examples, format, access and delivery conditions.
Barrier and whose experience it reflects
2. Keep the purpose
What must learners be able to do? Which activities make that possible? Check the programme’s actual adaptation and approval requirements.
Objective and elements to retain or review
3. Co-design a small test
Build a usable prototype with partners. Include varied intended users. Ask them to do the task; observe where they need help.
Proposed change and pilot participants
4. Review and improve
Compare observed performance with the objective. Explore the reasons for gaps. Revise, retest and document the decision together.
Evidence needed before wider use
Keep a simple change record
Version and date · User need · Change proposed · Partner and technical reviewers · Pilot observations · Decision and reason · Next review
Discussion prompt: “What can change so this works here, and what must remain for the learning to work?”
Independent learning-design sample by Kevin Gakarau · wawerugakarau.com
This general discussion aid is not an approved War Child or other organisation’s procedure. Use the requirements of your own programme. Record learning-design observations without personal participant details.