Instructional Skills BWR109

COURSE AIMS

• Analyse the communication effectiveness within a training environment.
• Explain characteristics which influence the effectiveness of education, including aspects of both learning and teaching.
• Define training requirements for a specified workplace.
• Prepare for commencement of a training session.
• Develop a lesson plan for training a small group (less than twelve).
• Develop skills in the assessment and evaluation of training programs.
• Demonstrate the use of audio-visual equipment for lesson presentation.
• Demonstrate the instruction of a learner in a one-to-one situations.
• Determine the use of simple motivational skills in a training environment.
• To promote training and monitor the result of promotion.
• Prepare trainees to meet the requirements of the competency standards for assessors.

COURSE STRUCTURE

There are 11 lessons with a written assignment to be submitted at the end of each lesson. To obtain a formal pass, you must also sit a written examination at the successful completion of all eleven assignments. If any of this work is sub standard, you may repeat the requirement until the satisfactory standard is met.The 11 lessons in this module are as follows:

1. Introduction to Training and Communication
2. Understanding Learning
3. Determining Training Requirements in The Workplace
4. Commencing Training
5. Developing a Lesson Plan
6. Assessment and Evaluation of Training Programs
7. Training Aids
8. One-To-One Training
9. Motivation Skills and Techniques
10. Promoting Training
11. Assessor Training

WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS COURSE

Here are some examples:

• Identify interactions that can occur between teacher and learner in a case study.
• Compare adult learning characteristics with child learning characteristics.
• Diagnose in 4 case studies, common barriers for learning, including;
  – Class Disruptions – Concentration – Motivation – Fear of Complexities
• Investigate how different training programs are promoted through newspapers, magazines, brochures, handbooks, trade show displays, radio advertising etc.
• Consider the effectiveness of different promotions you discover.
• Describe an appropriate procedure for the notification of trainees of a forthcoming (hypothetical)training session. This training session can be on a topic selected by you
• Identify eight different methods which may be used for promoting training courses for a training provider who you are familiar with. These may be methods which are already being used, or they may be methods which you think may be worth trying.
• Collect information on assessment procedures.
  * Look at assessment procedures in several courses.
  * Talk to a number of teachers/trainers about how they assess their students/trainees.
  * Look at school handbooks to see if they list assessment methods for the different courses they cover.
  * Talk to people who have done courses recently. How where they assessed? Would they have preferred to have been assessed in a different manner? If so, how?
• Make an audio recording of 5 minutes giving instruction on a subject you feel comfortable about, for example, discussing vehicle performance, a discussion on bird breeding, the use of natural remedies, etc.