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hey everybody Dr Ray and we are going to
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talk about task analysis I'm going to
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try to make it super easy it's something
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that my students get hung up on so often
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because they're just not sure if they're
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doing it correctly so I want to talk
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about it I want to talk you through it
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let's talk about why you do it let me
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show you an example and talk about
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actually doing a task analysis because
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it's it's it's such an easy thing we
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make something so for some reason texts
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and and everything make something that's
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so simple so complicated and it should
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not be complicated this should be a very
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simple thing that you do all right so
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what is a task analysis and why do you
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do it a task analysis is simple simply a
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overview a map of every single step or
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part of a process so if you had like
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step one step two step three what are
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all the things you need to do to do step
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one what are all the items what are all
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the things you need to identify what are
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all the things you need to learn or do
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in order for step one to happen and it's
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a visual of that that's all it is I'm
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going to break it down and make it easy
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but why do you even do this first of all
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let's talk about why you do it and then
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let's talk about some examples all right
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so why do you do task analysis you do
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task analysis because this is a quality
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check in the process quality check when
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you're designing training this is me
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giving this to my client this task
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analysis to say this process map this
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visual of everything and saying is this
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every piece of content that we need to
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teach your learners is this it is this
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everything if they say no then I say
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what are we missing if they say yes then
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boom that's a quality check I get that
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in email or writing and I know that I'm
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not adding any new content unless
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they're going to pay me more money
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because we start to get in scope creep
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there all right so let's talk about
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let's look at an example I I I have a
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couple example so let's start out the
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first thing I always the first example I
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always talk about is brushing your teeth
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why because it's simple and every one of
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you should be doing it two times a day
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right that's what your dentist tells you
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right two times a day
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I brush my teeth and brush and floss
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twice a day so we got to do twice a day
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all right because you don't get cavities
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and all kinds of bad stuff and we don't
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want that to happen so you know listen
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to the dentist anyway brushing your
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teeth what is the first step in brushing
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your teeth Step One is what what's First
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Step think about it in your head for one
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take a second think about it I'll count
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to five I'll let you think for one
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second all right so what was the first
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step you thought about it you took five
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seconds I guess and thought about what
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was the first step to brushing your
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teeth you take your toothbrush and you
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take your your toothbrush right
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toothbrush and toothpaste and then you
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put the toothpaste onto the brush but
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that's like multiple steps right there
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so the first thing we take our
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toothpaste and put it on the toothbrush
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but there's some steps before that
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happens okay so let's say step one is
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take our too take pick up the toothpaste
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I need to look at step one and say what
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are all the things that are involved in
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picking up the toothpaste
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can the person identify what the
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toothpaste is right so maybe I need to
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teach because remember like a lot of
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people say like I learn by doing and yes
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everyone learns by doing but you can't
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learn by doing when I talk about
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brushing your teeth I can talk about
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learn by doing but if the person has no
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idea what a toothbrush is or toothpaste
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I can't just tell them to go pick up a
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toothpaste and toothbrush and start
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doing it it's like when you get those
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really bad directions like when you buy
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furniture from Walmart and it's like one
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sheet of like no description like pick
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up the thing and like put these two
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things that we're not even going to show
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you a picture of we're just going to say
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what they are together like if I was
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telling you to build an engine I was
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like take the carburetor and the the
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x-axis screw and put and you'd be like
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well what is the x-axis screw I just
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made that up it's nothing but what is
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the x-axis screw so we have to identif
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what are all the things you need to
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teach before someone can pick up the
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toothpaste well they need to identify
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the toothpaste and then I need to
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probably teach them like where the cap
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is on the toothpaste and then I need to
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teach them how to unscrew the cap so
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that step one of picking up the
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toothpaste might have a bunch of things
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around it that we need to teach the
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learner then step two like put the
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toothpaste on the toothbrush okay so for
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step two now we got to identify a
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toothbrush we got to teach them how to
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unscrew the toothpaste take off the
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little metal foil thing if it's on some
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toothpaste you know or sealed teach them
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how to squeeze the toothpaste teach him
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the right amount to squeeze on the
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toothbrush all that kind of stuff is
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taught around step two so you can see
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each step you you the simplest thing to
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do the simplest way to make a task
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analysis to say step one two three four
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you know all your steps the process and
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then say well what is involved in this
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step one to get it done what is involved
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in this step two like I can tell someone
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teach someone how to like turn the power
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off my computer which is like you you
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find that little button in the middle of
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the laptop and push it and hold it and
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it shuts it off right that's the easiest
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way but I need to have them identify
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like where is the button what is the
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button like what does the button look
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like how long do you hold it down like
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there's all that stuff that goes into
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that would need to be in the task
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analysis a task analysis is
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everything now let's say I'm teaching um
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kindergarteners the toothbrush
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toothpaste thing I probably do need to
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teach them what toothpaste is as a
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kindergartener but like my son that's 10
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if I'm teaching him how to brush his
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teeth properly I don't need to teach him
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the what a toothpaste is for him I
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probably would focus on like the length
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of time brushing your teeth and making
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sure you're hitting all your everywhere
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so you know different Learners novice
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versus experience that task analysis is
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going to look different the idea is when
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you're doing the task analysis you try
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to do it for the novice learner and then
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you just eliminate the things that
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aren't for them like maybe I'm teaching
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on Expert so I don't need to teach them
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like identify toothpaste and toothbrush
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like we're focusing on a different step
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really so you have to know this is where
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you know your learners and know what you
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need to do that's why you do that
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learner analysis before you start the
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task analysis so you know what the
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Learners need to know all right let's
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talk look at another example so this
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example um is actually something I did
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with my kids and this is something that
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I did in second grade thank you second
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grade teacher for doing this because I
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still remember it it's the probably one
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of the only things I remember from
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elementary school my second grade
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teacher um what he did did is he told us
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he told the class we're going to make
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peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and
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he said write down the directions for
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for uh teaching someone for creating a
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peanut butter and jelly sandwich and
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then we did an activity and we learned a
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lot about directions so I decided to do
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this with my kids since they're all in
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elementary school here let me show you
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what happens when I teach when we do
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this activity with my kids here you
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go okay so as I said we're going to be
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testing out if Mom my kids can teach us
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how to make a peanut butter sandwich do
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you think they can do it let's see okay
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kids how do you make a peanut butter
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sandwich put the bread on the plate put
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the bread on the plate okay so here's
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the bread I'm going to put this on the
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plate what's the next step that isn't
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bread that's a thing that's a bag that's
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bag no put get a piece of bread out of
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the bag then put one piece on okay so
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how do I get bread out of the bag do I
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tear tear the bag open yeah like an
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animal I tear the bag open yeah yeah do
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it I don't think that's exactly what
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we're supposed to do how do I really get
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the bread out peel this thing in the Bob
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peel this thing in the bobber what is
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this thing St it's a ribbon a twisty
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okay so we're going to we're going to
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take we have to twist the twisty off
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what's the next thing that I do open up
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the back open up where right here open
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okay so I look at the front of the bag
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and open it up no get one piece of bread
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no get two pieces oh yeah get two two
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yeah what about this end piece do we
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want that no so you got two pieces of
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bread from the middle and what with them
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put white piece right there on the
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ground and what do I do with this one
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don't um just put it on the table for
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now put it on the dirty table Yeah okay
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now what do I do get knife get knife get
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a knife now I'm now use the knife to St
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on the peanut butter to open it up like
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this no open it up so so first do what
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with what do I need to do with this
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peanut butter open it up how do I do
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that get get the lid and then twist it
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okay so you get the lid and you twist
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the peanut butter off okay wrong way he
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just now what do I do oh get the knife
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okay now what is the knife is this the
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knife no this this is the knife how do I
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know this is the knife versus this this
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is this but how do I know this is a
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spoon knives cut people um so okay so
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knives are sharpen and look like this so
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we're identify finding a knife now what
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do I do um um put get the scoop of
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peanut butter out of the no that's not
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how you do it KN pick up this put upside
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down pour all no no no no okay so I put
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the knife in the peanut butter right
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yeah pick up a scoop yeah a big one a
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big scoop and then what do I do put it
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on the put it on that now spread it out
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with the knife now spread it out all
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over the bread so cover the entire face
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of the bread yeah well almost all of it
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you're going to do all of it yeah that's
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a big F is that it or do I do another
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one that's it um now you put that piece
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of bread on there okay and now you use
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eat it cut it now you eat so use the
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knife to cut the where do I cut it just
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this piece off
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this directly in half now you eat it now
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you eat it why are you cutting it and
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then what you eat it you eat it okay
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let's let's yeah let's cut it into four
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so that we can each have a section one
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two e you don't want any okay no I don't
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like it wa can I wa did can you have
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find and I have one of those what do you
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think pretty good right mhm all right we
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did it we made a peanut butter sandwich
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all right now as you see yes we didn't
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have jelly we just did peanut butter
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sandwiches and yes they were good and
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yes they learned figured out how to do
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it correctly with a little bit of
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guidance but my kids will always
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remember that as I remembered my second
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grade teacher teaching me that that's
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how simple task analysis is it's
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literally something you can teach a
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second grader cuz I learned it in second
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grade and I just taught my kids in
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elementary school so you can learn it
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and do it it's very very very easy the
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key is knowing your learners and knowing
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how far to break down the process did I
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need to teach the kids what peanut
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butter is no my kids knew what it was
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but if this was someone who I can't
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assume that everyone knows that think
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about people like my kids grew up with
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peanut butter but my neighbors next door
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the kids might have a peanut peanut
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allergy or something and they may have
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never seen a can of peanut butter before
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so they might not know what peanut
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butter is or whatever it happens to be
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so you can't just
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assume you have to figure it out write
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it down as part of your task analysis
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and then you meet with your Smee and say
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well they don't need to learn this they
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don't need to learn that here's what
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we're going to focus on for the training
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it's the map of your training all right
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does that make sense I hope that helped
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you out I hope that adds some context to
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my other video where I talk about task
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analysis remember it's literally just
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writing down everything the Learners
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need to know that's it all right good
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luck get to it let me know how it goes
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later everybody
