At Formula Student, the students not only learn how to do tasks, but they also discover they are able to inform others on how and why tasks were carried out in a particular way. Our desire is to have students developing a range of tacit procedural knowledge by carrying out tasks that they enjoy doing and want to learn. This tacit procedural knowledge will underpin further declarative knowledge.
Here at Formula Student we believe that students need to be interested in the learning program to enable them to learn. By utilising motorsport as the platform to learning work ready skills utilising engineering practices, students are motivated and able to see practical outcomes to their learning. They learn while enjoying themselves working on a real world project.
Tactile or kinesthetic learners are those who learn through experiencing/doing things. For this reason, tactile learners may become bored more quickly than other students while listening to a class lecture. Tactile learners like to experience the world and act out events. To remember a phone number, tactile learners may remember the pattern of their fingers as they press the numbers. Tactile learners can remember complicated directions once they've enacted them out.
Formula Student™ recognises the difficulties in gaining work ready skills using traditional methods of training where students are taught skills only without embedded and fundamental work ready skills.
A number of these skills are tacit knowledge, or knowledge that you have, but find it difficult to describe. By embedding and clustering real world workshop activities within our training programs, our students come out with not only manual skills, but a tacit understanding of what they will experience in future employment.
We train utilising component and sub-assembly job cards within our project based learning. Underpinning those job cards is a complex and robust assessment matrix that clusters a range of unit of competency elements to each job card so our students build competency over time through the clustering process.
At Formula Student™ we're passionate about learning and we recognise that learning needs to start at the earliest stage possible to give our future workforce a head start on their careers. Formula Student™ has developed the Formula Student™ training program in Australia to not only deliver great learning outcomes but to excite our future workforce to want to learn. You could say they are " racing to learn ".
At Formula Student there is a focus on the student and not the Teacher. Our belief is we are there for the student to learn, not the teacher to teach. It's with this philosophy in mind that we strive to make any learning as realistic and industry focused as possible while keeping the learner engaged and inspiring them to go further. Our focus on Motorsport as a platform of learning is one way we achieve this, along with a less didactic teacher-centric environment and a more tactile learner-centric environment.
