INSTRUCTIONAL SKILLS

Learn to Teach People How to Work

Every job requires some level of training. No matter how qualified and experienced someone is before starting a new job, there are always things to be learned. employers, managers, supervisors all need to instruct their subordinates in the fine details of what the job entails. This course teaches you how to be that type of instructor. Learn to train the worker and improve the productivity in any workplace.

Lesson Structure

There are 11 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction to Training
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

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.

What You Will Do

• 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 a short audio recording 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.

Learn to Understand How People Learn

When you understand how different people learn in different ways; you then have the tools to better facilitate teaching work skills. 

Well established and known research has shown that people learn in different ways and therefore we can ‘classify’ people as different types based on their learning style. We can also define different learning styles and different intelligences.  

Some important researchers, psychologists and theorists in the field of learning include Carl Jung (1923), Isabel Briggs Myer, developed ways of classifying people into different ‘types’. Their work formed what is known as the Myers-Briggs Types Indicator Assessment which is a psychometric questionnaire which can measure people’s perceptions and how we apply these to our decision making processes. 

Later in the 20th century others researchers and psychologists include David Kolb, Peter Honey, Alan Mumford and Bernice McCarthy, Leo Vygotsky, B.F. (Burrhus, Frederic) Skinner, Jean Piaget, Howard Gardner, Erik Erickson, Abraham Maslow and Edward de Bono further developed ideas about how different types of people learn in different ways.  

Applying Established Theories in Teaching and Learning 

We know for a fact that it is difficult, if not impossible, for teachers and trainers to provide the optimal learning opportunity to all participants of a class, when they are being taught as a group of identical learners. 

The most effective teaching will allow each individual to learn in the way that best suits them. The best workplace trainer will do more than just demonstrate or speak, and expect the learner to absorb. They must enter a dialogue with each learner, and through that two way communication, facilitate learning in whatever way will work best for each individual.

WHAT SETS ACS APART?

Service – We put the student first.  Tutors and administration can be contacted 5 days a week, 50 weeks of the year, by phone or email.

We provide Better Learning – We’ve been delivering distance education for over 3 decades, and we understand how people learn by home study.

Our methods are unique, developed through experience with a focus squarely on helping you learn.

Up to Date – We are continually revising and updating courses. We listen to our students feed-back and we always improve the course if a change is identified that will help significantly improve your learning.

More Choice – Graduates need a set of skills that will set them apart and give them an advantage over competition in the world after study. We have a wide variety of study choices, and give you lots of options to choose different paths throughout a course. Doing this has meant our graduates very successful.

No Short Cuts –You can’t take short cuts in learning, and that is why our courses are often longer than you will find elsewhere. You could choose to study a short course, quickly sit an exam (while the information is fresh) and pass, but if you want to really understand something and retain it, that takes time.

More than just Learning Facts – We understand that success in the workplace or business requires you to not only learn things, but also build networks, understand the commercial world, be able to solve problems, communicate with people, and have an attitude that will function in your chosen industry.