TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01 - TRADOC - U.S. Army

TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01learning and adaptive organizations, and suggest ways to incorporate successful methodologies inTLE.5-4. Future Training and Education ApproachThe concept for how we will train and educate future Soldiers, leaders, teams, and units onthe range of competencies and skills discussed above continues many of the current TLEpractices and improves upon others. It also introduces new approaches in keeping with the needsof the future operational Army and future TLE capabilities enabled by advances in technologyand learning science. The overall approach is inherently complex, attempting to address theneeds of Soldiers at all stages of their careers—individuals as well as teams and units, in alllocations, across the range of initial entry, branch specialty, leader education, and collective skillsrequired for full spectrum operations. The scope of the challenge is immense and the widevariety of skill requirements and training environments requires a diverse and innovative set ofsolutions.The envisioned approach can be characterized generally and simply as a continuingmovement toward precision in learning—an effort to provide tailored, relevant, appropriatelyrealistic training, education or knowledge, to Soldiers, teams and units when and where needed.The approach acknowledges changing definitions of “learning” and “knowing” resulting from theinformation explosion and real world experience of the millennials. Learning is becoming aprocess of interrelating information from different knowledge domains reflecting the changingnature of knowing—not merely the mastery of facts, but the ability to access and integrate newinformation precisely when needed. In addition, the approach recognizes that learning must be alifelong process and that the TLE system must transform to make lifelong learning a reality. Thekey ingredients to enable precision learning for the future includes expanding and acceleratingleader education and development, improving accessibility of TLE, providing realistic training,providing responsive training development and delivery, training JIM, managing unitperformance, and applying human performance improvement (HPI) techniques.Expansion and Acceleration of Leader Education and DevelopmentThe future professional military education system will fully embrace the principles of lifelonglearning, thus ensuring that officers and NCOs receive the best possible mix of operationalassignments and resident and distributed education. FM 6-22, defines lifelong learning as thechoice to pursue knowledge, the comprehension of ideas, and the expansion of depth to progressbeyond a known state of development and competency. The ATLDP Officer Study Report to theArmy, 2003, suggests that adoption of lifelong learning principles will help the leader and theunit to:…become aware of the need for new competencies in rapidly changingenvironments; know how to develop these new competencies; transfer the learningand associated competencies to other leaders and units; and, institutionalize learningin the Army’s culture and systems to increase self-awareness and adaptability.112