Course Overview
This course consists of 12 lessons that provide teachers, coaches and trainers concepts, tools, and best practices that will enable them to teach high quality classes using real world examples in both virtual and face-to-face settings. Throughout this course, trainees will learn the key concepts to teaching adult learners, become familiar with an instructional design model that will help plan and teach classes in a structured manner, and understand the importance of preparing and planning for a successful learning session.
In addition, the trainee will acquire tools that will allow them to deliver compelling presentations, learn techniques to help maximize the understanding of new content, and discover best practices for asking and answering questions, handling difficult situations, and including humor in the classroom.
Throughout this course, trainees will receive feedback and suggestions for improvement. This course will be highly interactive and is designed to help build confidence for delivering quality training classes.
Prerequisites
Diagnostic Evaluation Before a trainee can attend this course, they must go through a diagnostic evaluation. Each trainee must submit a recorded video of themself delivering a class. This video must be submitted one week before the course start date, so the instructor has enough time to evaluate them prior to class.
This video must have the following:
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• Topic to be chosen by the trainer: it is essential that the class is aimed at students with no prior knowledge of the topic.
• The duration of the video must be between 5-7 minutes.
• The trainee must appear on a camera for the entire duration of the video.
• The video format must be MP4.
The trainee will receive their diagnostic evaluation on the first day of class so they can target areas of improvement during the course.
Capstone/Final Evaluation: Each trainee is required to conduct a final presentation on the last day of class. Each presentation will be 20 minutes (15-minute delivery and 5 minutes of feedback from the instructor). We encourage trainees to review their diagnostic video submissions and incorporate any feedback/tips that they have learned throughout the course.
Face-to-face feedback in class will be limited to the instructor pointing out strengths of the trainee, as well as their main areas of improvement.
One week after completing the course, trainees will receive an evaluation rubric of their final presentation with descriptors of their performance, as well as some suggestions on how they can improve. The evaluation will inform the trainee if they have passed or failed their presentation.
If the trainee fails their first evaluation, they can reschedule another evaluation after 2 weeks to ensure there is enough time to incorporate feedback that was provided in the evaluation. If they fail a second time, they must wait 2 months to reschedule.
Course Objectives
- Understand the six fundamental keys to adult learning
- Learn how to write an effective agenda and keep to the agenda
- Learn how to set clear objectives and outcomes
- Understand the basic concepts of class planning
- Effectively identify and remediate your own nervous habits
- Understand what a learning moment is and how to apply it in the planning and execution of classes
- Ensure you establish credibility on the topic by sharing your credentials
- Learn best practices for starting a course
- Develop open effective communications with learners
- Best practices and how to apply whiteboarding in face-to-face and virtual classes
- Learn about potential obstacles that may arise in classes, and how to overcome them
- Learn how to ask/answer questions during class to maximize engagement
- Discover the importance of including all students in the class to prevent bias
- Understand best practices, and tips to incorporate your personality style into class, whether it be humor or a fun game. Bring yourself!
- Make use of multiple technological tools to improve engagement within face-to-face and virtual environments
- Learn how to effectively utilize analogies to bring difficult topics into focus
- Learn effective ways to drive engagement through polls, exercises, and quizzes
- Effectively identify and remediate problem students
- Use breakout sessions to help students effectively engage with others
- Support learner-to-learner engagement
- How to effectively use real-world examples in your instruction
- Understand the importance of closing the class properly
- Concluding a class with an effective call to action/immediate application
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