Daniel Bromley
ADULT PROBATION OFFICER INSTRUCTOR
We asked a few faculty around campus about their barrier to learning and what they do to improve accessibility.
Our amazing faculty member, Dan, had this to say…
Two comments come to mind:
- From a young age, I internalized an erroneous belief that anything less than an A+ or 100% was unsatisfactory and a poor performance. Years later in my 2nd or 3rd year of college, I learned to work smarter and not harder.
- The above learning was garnered from a separate learning skills course at Camosun College. The instructor provided all of us with practical study and learning skills that made our effort more efficient and streamlined. I wish I had learned these practical skills earlier in my youth or in my first year of post-secondary at the latest.
I am mindful that our Adult Probation Officer training can be overwhelming and daunting at times. There are numerous minute details that can leave a new recruit feeling lost as their focus is drawn away from the over-arching goals. With this challenge in mind, I continually seek ways to bring the attention back to the macro perspective of the Probation Officer role. I continually look for opportunities to link the content to stories or real-life examples to generate meaning for the question of “why do we need to learn this?” In doing so, I believe I am making the content/material more accessible for all training participants.