Target Audience - Employees and supervisors responsible for providing instruction in a formal setting or in concert with state mandated certification requirements.
Length – 3, 4 or 5 Day Options
General Instructor Development
From lesson plan development, to classroom facilitation, this course will develop attendees into instructors who inspire others. Particular emphasis is placed on creating learning environments that promote understanding and adaptation vs. mere lecture with short term retention.
Course Goal: Introduce students fundamentals of course design, basic facilitation skills and techniques to manage a classroom
Attendees will:
- Conduct a task analysis broken down into at least 10 - steps
- Write learning objectives and develop lesson plans
- Demonstrate how to promote involvement and effectively “manage” the classroom
- Use learned techniques to enhance their overall communication skills
- Develop techniques to motivate and inspire their students
- Name training resources and aids, and define their proper application in the classroom
- Design test questions that are clearly understood by their classmates
- Relate legal issues associated with training
- Summarize principles of adult learning
- Demonstrate excitement and energy in their training
- Compose an effective presentation opening
- Define techniques for capturing and holding audience attention
- Develop a plan for facilitating difficult discussions and work with challenging audiences
- Use vocal range, tone and body language to enhance presentations
- Write a closing to a talk that inspires action
- Create question and answer periods that promote involvement