Train the Trainer
A Bit Your Training About You Topic, Learners, Experience Name Role Aims/ Areas for & Organisation Development
Working Together • Respect: – talk 1 at a time – listen – non-judgemental • Confidentiality • Don’t assume • No such thing as a silly question • Safe place to share ideas and experience • Time keeping • Mobile phones • Session is interactive – you are the ones who will make it a success • Have fun!
Carousel Exercise Consider the following • Your own learning experiences and training courses you have attended • Any training you have previously delivered In your groups, visit each of the pages and add your own thoughts and ideas. • What makes a successful start? • Ground Rules – Why? Guidelines. • Icebreakers – Why? Do’s and Don’ts
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Say the COLOUR of the word GREEN BLUE YELLOW ORANGE RED BLUE YELLOW BLACK GREEN PURPLE YELLOW ORANGE RED GREEN PURPLE
Don’t forget the left and right grey matter The ‘imaginative’ brain function The ‘logical’ brain function
Supporting Learning How do adults like to learn? – Theories, Principles – Rules – Assumptions – Myths – Perceptions – Models – Psychologies – OWN EXPERIENCE
What we remember • First • Symbols Impressions • Pictures • Visual Stimulation • Quotes • Analogies • Anecdotes • Stories • Examples • Repetition
How we remember • Primacy • Recency • Association • Outstanding • Review • Enthusiasm
Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
Kolb’s Learning Cycle 4. Deliberate testing 1. Having the experience (trying it out) 3. Forming a rule or plan 2. Observation & Reflection
Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles Experiencing Thinking before acting Correcting immediately Reflecting on content Taking part Talking out with others Concepts Thinking before acting Models Reflecting on content Theories Talking out with others
THEORIST REFLECTOR ACTIVIST PRAGMATIST • Concepts • Thinking • Experiencing Testing in real Learns before world best by • Models • Correcting acting Checking against • Theories immediately • Reflecting defined purpose • Taking part on content • Talking out with others Like • Analysis and • Time to • Doing & • Practical logic; think, experiencing problem observe solving, • being stretched; • Games & • Take it all in Role Play • relevance to • structure and first, “real world” clarity • practical • Some solitude • Frivolity, • Being • Sitting • ‘Airy fairy,’ Dislike hurtled into around • mindless fun, • Theoretical activity wasting time, • Working • No reference to • No time to alone • not being able past or future think, to question. • Theorising • Crammed • lack of structure timetables Ref: Honey and Mumford Learning Styles
AUDIAL VISUAL KINAESTHETIC
The Training Cycle Training Needs Analysis ? (for individual or organisation) ? Carrying out the training Design the Training
The Training Cycle Evaluate the Training Needs Analysis Training (for individual or organisation) Setting the aims/ Carrying out Writing the training objectives/outcomes Design the Training
The 6 Universal Questions “I have six honest serving men; they taught me all I knew. I call them What and Where and When and How and Why and Who.” Rudyard Kipling
“If you don’t know where you are going you are almost certainly bound to end up somewhere else.” C S Lewis
Will the really SMART learning outcome please stand up! Will effectively chair meeting Will identify four stages of group development Will understand the importance of effective meetings
Training Practice • Each person will • Be prepared: deliver short training – Yourself session – Your training session – Your materials – Your introduction to • In between each we set the context: will give feedback • Audience • Time within training day etc • Using the sandwich model (see handout)
LUNCH
Pros and Cons • In teams: – Each team will have a set of various training methods – Your task is to create a display in the next 10 minutes which explains the Pros and Cons of each Training Method – You can be as creative as you like in deciding which way you want to display your thoughts
Preparing the Session ‘By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.’ Benjamin Franklin (1706- 1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher.
Simple Structure Outcome What they’ll be able to do Activity How we will achieve the objective Parameters Time available, numbers of people, resources needed Key Message What they need to remember
Planning Using Mind Maps
Planning A Course • Using a Mindmap, the trainers template or the 6 Universal Questions – plan your 10 minute session for tomorrow
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Skills and Qualities What do you think are the essential skills and qualities of an effective trainer?
Welcome Back!! The Big Fat Training Quiz
Preparing Materials Using the outcome below, create a one hour training session Group Work for a group like us “By the end of the session learners will be able to identify some of the do’s and don’ts of giving presentations”
Giving Feedback • About behaviour not • COMMEND character • RECOMMEND • What they are doing right • COMMEND • What they could do more of • Specific • Immediate • To be a positive experience
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity Seneca
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. Clay P. Bedford
When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist Proverb
Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. Robert Brault
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. Marvin Minsky
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. Author Unknown
“Its funny but the more I practice the luckier I get” GARY PLAYER
“Training that brings about no change is as effective as a parachute that opens on the first bounce” ANON
“Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon” EM FORSTER
Tell me and I will forget, show me and I will remember, involve me and I will understand. Chinese Proverb
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers
Final thought… “Vision without Action is just dreaming. Action without Vision just passes the time. Vision – plus Action – can change the world” Joel Barker
Next Steps DSC In House Get the whole team trained. We’ll come to you DSC Coaching Get some 1-1 coaching and explore current barriers and potential strategies for improvement Contact Cathy Shimmin at cshimmin@dsc.org.uk 07967 027304 www.dsc.org.uk
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