Instructional Skills

At 100 hours of study, this course includes, but exceeds the scope of a typical Train the Trainer Course.

It is appropriate for people teaching at a vocational level, or involved in supervising and instructing staff in a workplace situation.

Who Should Do this Course?

• Supervisors ore team leaders
• Managers and Business owners
• Skills Teachers or Workplace Trainers

There are 11 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction to Training
   • Communication channels
   • Skills for an effective communicator
   • Responsibilities of a trainer to achieve effective communication
   • Main approaches to helping learning; psychodynamic, phenomenological, behavioural, cognitive-behavioural and transactional analysis
   • Understanding communication barriers
   • Trainer responsibilities beyond communication
   • Leadership concepts
   • Public speaking skills
   • Causes of confusion
   • Writing a speach to communicate a learning point
2. Understanding Learning
   • What is learning
   • How learning is influenced by the teacher, student and materials
   • Learning terminology
   • Teaching strategies
   • Common teaching modes
   • Class size
   • Teaching models
   • Questioning
   • Recognising the learners needs
   • Adult learners
   • children/adolescent learners
3. Determining Training Requirements in The Workplace
   • Assessing Needs
   • How to gather information
   • How to use the information you gather
4. Commencing Training
   • Arranging resources
   • Administration
   • Planning
   • Training program support
5. Developing a Lesson Plan
   • Lesson aims
   • Structure of a lesson plan
   • Contingency planning
   • Writing a lesson plan
6. Assessment and Evaluation of Training Programs
   • Assessment
   • Tests and examinations
   • Assignments
   • Evaluation of training programs
   • Evaluation checklist
7. Training Aids
   • Overview
   • Using audio visual equiment
   • Visual materials; illustrations, whiteboard, charts etc
   • Audio materials
   • Handouts
8. One-To-One Training
   • Leadership communication
   • Tutorial sessions
   • Conversation development
   • Motivation for learning
   • Self esteem
   • Reinforcement
   • Trainer relationship building
   • Body language
9. Motivation Skills and Techniques
   • What is motivation
   • Motivational theories
   • Improving motivation
   • Competency
10. Promoting Training
    • Overview
    • Persuasion
    • Influencuing opponents
    • Influencing neutrals
    • Handling criticism
    • Logical persuasion
11. Assessor Training
    • Recognition of Prior learning
    • Evidence
    • Assessor training
    • Research skills
    • Interviewing skills
    • Asking effective questions

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Aims

• Analyse the communication effectiveness within a training environment.
• Explain characteristics which influence the effectiveness of education, including aspects of both learning and teaching.
• Define training requirements for a specified workplace.
• Prepare for commencement of a training session.
• Develop a lesson plan for training a small group (less than twelve).
• Develop skills in the assessment and evaluation of training programs.
• Demonstrate the use of audio-visual equipment for lesson presentation.
• Demonstrate the instruction of a learner in a one-to-one situations.
• Determine the use of simple motivational skills in a training environment.
• To promote training and monitor the result of promotion.
• Prepare trainees to meet the requirements of the competency standards for assessors.

What You Will Do

• Identify interactions that can occur between teacher and learner in a case study.
• Compare adult learning characteristics with child learning characteristics.
• Diagnose in 4 case studies, common barriers for learning, including;
  • Class Disruptions
  • Concentration
  • Motivation
  • Fear of Complexitie
• Investigate how different training programs are promoted through newspapers, magazines, brochures, handbooks, trade show displays, radio advertising etc.
• Consider the effectiveness of different promotions you discover.
• Describe an appropriate procedure for the notification of trainees of a forthcoming (hypothetical) training session. This training session can be on a topic selected by you
• Identify eight different methods which may be used for promoting training courses for a training provider who you are familiar with. These may be methods which are already being used, or they may be methods which you think may be worth trying.
• Collect information on assessment procedures.
  • Look at assessment procedures in several courses.
  • Talk to a number of teachers/trainers about how they assess their students/trainees.
  • Look at school handbooks to see if they list assessment methods for the different courses they cover.
  • Talk to people who have done courses recently. How where they assessed? Would they have preferred to have been assessed in a different manner? If so, how?
• Make a short audio recording giving instruction on a subject you feel comfortable about, for example, discussing vehicle performance, a discussion on bird breeding, the use of natural remedies, etc.