Lesson Structure:   Instructional Skills BGN101

There are 11 lessons:

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

Learning Goals:  Instructional Skills BGN101

• 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.

Practicals   (Set Tasks)  

• 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.

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