Train the Trainer is a three-day seminar that is addressed to anyone needing to communicate subject-matter content in the classroom.
As a consequence of this class, participants will
- Learn how to develop learning goals
- Understand how adults learn
- Be able to describe their own teaching and learning styles
- Improve their classroom skills using both traditional and non-traditional teaching methods
- Improve their consulting skills
- Practice giving and receiving feedback
- Develop plans for using their new skills
The Teaching Laboratory.
This course alternates class presentations and discussions of such issues as learning styles, teaching methods, and consulting skills with “The Teaching Laboratory,” a focused process for observing and improving the actual teaching of workshop participants. In a typical Teaching Laboratory, one of the class participants conducts a short class session that he or she might actually teach. The other participants serve as class members. The session is video-taped. Feedback is then provided to the person who taught the session from the other members of the class and from the video-tape. Time permitting, the participant is encouraged to re-teach parts of the session, incorporating into that second teaching the feedback from the first session.
The Program
Learning Goals. Through a structured process participants can use in their own classrooms, the class as a whole establishes learning goals for the course.
How Adults Learn. Through the use of the “Learning Style Inventory,” participants come to a fuller understanding both of their own learning styles and the different ways adults go about learning. The implications of these ideas for class design are discussed.
Improving the Classroom. A variety of classroom strategies are discussed, ranging from such traditional methods as lectures and class discussions to such innovative techniques as buzz groups and learning journals.
The Helping Relationship. Hands-on training is provided in active listening, with a particular focus on the use of those skills in improving class discussions.
Giving Feedback. The characteristics of positive and developmental feedback are discussed and practiced.
Consulting Trios. In a classic workshop exercise, participants have the opportunity to practice many of the helping and listening skills addressed in the class, while at the same time beginning to explore the implications of the class for their own teaching.
Planning for Application. The course concludes with a structured process through which participants can plan for back-home application of the ideas and skills presented in
Train the Trainer.
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