What is the proper term for the method of teaching I have heard called, "moving gallery"?

1LT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:12:11 -0400

I am trying to correct myself. I doubt anyone else calls it a moving gallery. I am wondering if it's anything official? We've all seen this type of training at one point. It is a method of conducting the "crawl" in the crawl, walk, run cycle. An instructor will literally guide a class through each step of mission, a walk through of sorts.

Example: Train a platoon ambush.

Take only the platoon leadership and have them run the mission by the book, from their ORP to actions on objective, as if they had the whole platoon. So, the PL, RTO, PSG, and squad leaders move out, establish an ORP, conduct a leaders recon, come back to the ORP, move out to objective, etc. The rest of the platoon is directly to the side, following along from each point to another. The instructor goes back and forth between the leadership and the platoon who is walking beside everything. Thus, it's a moving gallery of instruction.

Response by SFC Ralph E Kelley made Oct 29 at 2019 3:05 PM

SFC Ralph E Kelley — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:05:54 -0400

It's called a Walkthrough.
Teach techiques in slide show. Place them into position, Talk through each step,
Have others demostrate while you talk them through the stop-action sequence, while the students sit in bleachers watching.
Then take the students out and have multiuple instructors place them into positions - rotate postions until each student has seen each position & step.

Response by LTC Jason Mackay made Oct 29 at 2019 10:15 PM

LTC Jason Mackay — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:15:03 -0400

The leaders are walking through it? That's a TEWT (pronounced toot like newt) Training Event Without Troops. Within minutes of hearing this term in 1990, one of my G2G colleagues loudly pronounced that it was a Practical Exercise not involving Soldiers, or a PENIS.

Seriously though, TEWT.