Creating blueprints

A teacher creates a "blueprint" and lays it out for students to enhance or create experiential learning. Finkel discusses the blueprint and says that if the teacher does "keep his/her mouth shut", they will be able to effectively lay out a problem, then layout a blueprint for the entire experience they would like the students to ideally go through (beginning, middle, end), and finally, ensure the classroom is laid out so that the students, the problem and subject are the focus, not the teacher.

I still struggle with this concept, not because it doesn't work but because I think that so many people who come through health and safety workshops expect a lecture and are not prepared to "think" and just expect to sit in the back and go to sleep.  I think that laying out the blueprint can be difficult if, as Finkel also says, "you do not have a knowledge of the subject matter, how the subject matter is best learned and knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of students.

What are the downfalls to "laying out a blueprint"? If the teacher expects or would like to see the session go one direction and it goes an entirely new direction, is this a failure? What if the teacher is not entirely sure of the strengths and weaknesses of students? Will a blueprint truely fail if these things are not known?

I think creating a blueprint, presenting a problem, etc would be very useful for alot of students regardless of the subject if it is done correctly. However, doing so for the first time however can be intimidating. If I am not prepared for this to fail, will I fail before I begin.