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Train the Trainer

A Bit About You

Name Role & Organisation Aims/ Areas for Development Your Training Topic, Learners, Experience

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

. . . Aaaahhhhhh!

Say the COLOUR of the word

GREEN ORANGE BLUE RED YELLOW 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

• First

Impressions

• Visual

Stimulation

• Analogies
• Anecdotes
• Stories
• Examples
• Repetition
• Symbols
• Pictures
• Quotes

What we remember

How we remember

• Primacy
• Recency
• Association
• Outstanding
• Review
• Enthusiasm

Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

Kolb’s Learning Cycle

• 1. Having the experience
• 2. Observation &

Reflection

• 4. Deliberate testing

(trying it out)

• 3. Forming a rule or plan

Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles

 Experiencing  Correcting immediately  Taking part  Thinking before acting  Reflecting on content  Talking out with others  Concepts  Models  Theories  Thinking before acting  Reflecting on content  Talking out with others

THEORIST REFLECTOR ACTIVIST PRAGMATIST Learns best by

• Concepts
• Models
• Theories
• Thinking

before acting

• Reflecting
• n content
• Talking out

with others

• Experiencing
• Correcting

immediately

• Taking part

Testing in real world Checking against defined purpose

Like

• Analysis and

logic;

• being stretched;
• structure and

clarity

• Time to

think,

• bserve
• Take it all in

first,

• Some

solitude

• Doing &

experiencing

• Games &

Role Play

• practical
• Practical

problem solving,

• relevance to

“real world”

Dislike

• Frivolity,
• mindless fun,

wasting time,

• not being able

to question.

• lack of structure
• Being

hurtled into activity

• No time to

think,

• Crammed

timetables

• Sitting

around

• Working

alone

• Theorising
• ‘Airy fairy,’
• Theoretical
• No reference to

past or future

Ref: Honey and Mumford Learning Styles

AUDIAL VISUAL KINAESTHETIC

The Training Cycle

Training Needs Analysis

(for individual or organisation)

?

Design the Training Carrying out the training

?

The Training Cycle

Training Needs Analysis

(for individual or organisation)

Setting the aims/ Writing

• bjectives/outcomes

Design the Training Carrying out the training

Evaluate 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

deliver short training session

• In between each we

will give feedback

• Using the sandwich

model (see handout)

• Be prepared:

– Yourself – Your training session – Your materials – Your introduction to set the context:

• Audience
• Time within training

day etc

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

‘By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.’

Benjamin Franklin (1706- 1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher.

Preparing the Session

Simple Structure

Outcome What they’ll be able to do Activity How we will achieve the

• bjective

Parameters Time available, numbers

• f 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

. . . Aaaahhhhhh!

What do you think are the essential skills and qualities of an effective trainer?

Skills and Qualities

The Big Fat Training Quiz

Welcome Back!!

Preparing Materials

Using the outcome below, create a one hour training session for a group like us Group Work

“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

character

• What they are doing right
• What they could do more
• f
• Specific
• Immediate
• To be a positive

experience

• COMMEND
• RECOMMEND
• COMMEND

Luck is when preparation meets

• pportunity

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

• ne way.

Marvin Minsky

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their

• wn 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