The focus is on you in this dynamic program. Develop your skills for classroom training. Use a systemic learning process to bring your training to life. Practice your new skills by delivering three separate lessons. And, you can do it using content and material from your own environment. You’ll get oral and written feedback from our skilled workshop leaders. And, you’ll receive a videotape of your presentations for personal viewing.
Instructional Techniques is the premier workshop for developing your classroom delivery skills for both technical and non-technical training. It’s the cornerstone for trainer, CTT+ and MCT certification, following the competencies and objectives defined for excellent classroom instruction.
Who should attend:
New instructors who require concepts and techniques to deliver training programs.
Training and line managers who are responsible for evaluating the quality of professional instructional staff.
Instructors seeking Trainer, CTT+ and MCT certification.
Experienced instructors seeking a systematic approach to course delivery.
Key Benefits:
Gain confidence in front of a class.
Optimize learning with limited enrollment and personalized feedback.
Receive personalized constructive feedback and coaching from highly skilled workshop leaders.
Discover how to motivate learners.
Increase learner participation and interest in your programs through the application of a systematic learning process.
Receive an oral, written and videotaped review of your practice lessons.
Use instructional techniques that reinforce teaching points and tests understanding.
Develop skills to ensure the success of your learners.
Network with other trainers.
Workshop Objectives:
Integrate the principles of adult learning into course delivery.
Apply the Systematic Learning Process to course delivery.
Deliver training so participants are motivated to learn.
Use learner-centered learning objectives.
Implement a variety of instructional methods.
Sequence content effectively.
Use instructional media effectively
Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
Identify strategies to handle difficult situations.
Use questions to ensure interactive instruction.
Test for understanding using questioning techniques.
Respond to questions using four different methods.
Give and receive constructive feedback.
Improve delivery skills through practice teaching and feedback.
Plan continued self-development as an instructor.
Course Outline:
CONDUCTING THE TRAINING
Identify types of learners in your classroom.
Incorporate adult learning principles in your training.
Apply a powerful but simple learning model to ensure instructional success.
Use techniques to motivate any learner.
Use transitions to smoothly connect topics.
Identify key elements of a lesson introduction.
Use interim and final summaries for reinforcement of learning.
Establish and maintain credibility with your participants.
Develop and maintain an atmosphere of openness, mutual trust and respect.
Deal with differences between course content and learners' expectations.
Promote active learner participation.
Establish and maintain learners' comfort level in participatory exercises.
Help learners connect back to their real-world performance.
Adjust instructional methods to meet learners' needs.
Manage classroom time.
Control group dynamics.
Maintain an appropriate pace.
Create opportunities for learner success.
Strategize how to handle difficult learners and problem situations.
Use appropriate techniques to evaluate learning.
Demonstrate effective questioning skills and techniques.
Use media effectively.
Review performance checklists to assess instructional techniques.
Identify steps for planning and ensuring ongoing development.
ORGANIZING INFORMATION
16 step checklist for organizing and sequencing information.
Chunk and separate complex ideas.
Present information in a logical sequence.
Determine when to present difficult concepts in your training program.
Alternate between levels of difficulty.
Handle prerequisites.
Get through the end-of-the-day doldrums.
Write simple instructional objectives.
Identify poor instructional objectives and correct them.
Make lesson plans easy to read and follow.
Personalize the lesson plan developed by someone else.
Survive if a lesson plan does not exist.
Examine sample lesson plans to choose from.
12 step process for planning the training session.
8 step process and 5 techniques for information transfer.
Use examples, anecdotes and analogies effectively.
COMMUNICATION
Give constructive feedback to learners.
Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal language.
Avoid distracting verbal and non-verbal behavior.
Rephrase and restate messages appropriately for the learners.
Clarify and confirm successfully.
Respond appropriately to learners' needs for clarification or feedback.
Answer learners' questions thoroughly, confidently and accurately.
Distinguish learners who comprehend the material from those who do not.
Maintain effective eye contact.
11 items to enhance body language.
Get the most from your voice; use a 17 step process for voice and language.
14 key items to improve delivery style.
Manage diversity that will enhance the course.
Using an engaging and natural style of communicating.
Deliver in a conversational tone.
PRE-COURSE PREPARATION:
Make effective minor adjustments to learning materials if required.
Explore what to look for in pre-course participant information.
Guidelines for room set-up and person-to-room dimensions.
Checklist for personal preparation.
Choose seating arrangements that encourage the most interaction.
Determine physical layout and specifications for computer training classrooms.
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