Curriculum

  Each job position requires that a person use specific knowledge and skills to perform a job's tasks. A curriculum identifies the training requirements for acquiring that knowledge and skill. It lists the stops you will make on the road to proficiency. It specifies what a person should learn at each point in the training process. It specifies the information that the trainee should study.

Materials

  Materials are the vehicle for acquiring job knowledge and skills. They can be general (overviews), site-specific (procedures), simple (checklists), or complex (simulators). They can be paper-based, computer-based, group oriented or self study. Materials of various types can also be blended, so that, for example, a portion of the training is self study and another portion is classroom based.

Process

  While the curriculum identifies the stops you make on your trip to proficiency, the process identifies the best route. The curriculum will specify that a trainee perform a series of tasks, some of them in a classroom, some in front of a computer, and some of them in the field. The training process tells you how to proceed.