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TRAINER
2007
TUTOR GROUPS
Your Tutor is ………..(insert name)
Session 1 : Team Building
Learning Objectives
• By the end of this session participants will:
• Be able to name the people in your group
• Have participated in a team building exercise
• Have built a giraffe
• Be able to tell the difference between a ‘group’ and a
‘team’
Giraffe Building
• You have 12 minutes to work as a team building a
giraffe. For those of you that can’t quite remember
what a giraffe looks like, here is a picture (Show
picture). The giraffe must be free-standing and you
may only use the materials provided. You will have
four minutes to discuss your plan for building the
giraffe in which you may not commence building.You
will then have eight minutes to construct the giraffe”.
Picture of Giraffe
Session 2: What is Training? Is Training the Answer?
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
• Define training
• Discuss the benefits of training
• Identify situations where training is appropriate
Group exercise
• “Training, development and education are just
different words to describe the same activity.”
Potential Difficulties
– Allocation of work
– Who will take overall responsibility?
– Compromise
– Interrupting each other
– Different styles of trainers
What are the benefits and potential difficulties in:
Individual training?
Benefits
– Can still have trainers meetings to exchange ideas
– Can have overall responsibility
– Good for self confidence
Potential Difficulties
– On our own
– If asked questions that are outside of the tutors notes-can’t
answer them straight away
– If you’re ill/ tired
– No support in the training room
What would co-trainers need to consider?
• Be aware of each others strengths and weaknesses
• Be aware of each others styles
• Listen and maintain good communication
• Set goals together
• Peer evaluation
• Establish clear roles, and ways you will work together (for example – one person
writes on flipchart whilst the other one takes ideas from trainees)
• Set ground rules (eg have a signal that can be used if one person is struggling – so
“if I pick up a pink pen I am struggling and would like you to take over”)
• outside of the session
• prepare course content
• develop knowledge of what is being taught
• self-evaluate after the session
• identify needs of trainees
• commitment to sessions / organisation / developing the culture
The Great Trainer
1. Leave personal issues outside the training
room
2. Equal Opportunity
3. Facilitation
4. Acting as a model
5. Confidentiality
6. Nobody’s perfect
Session 4: Learning Styles & Training Methodology
• Describe the stages of Kolb’s learning cycle
• Describe techniques that are used in Accelerated
Learning
• Describe a variety of learning styles
• List and describe common training methods
• Match training methods and learning styles
• Explain the functions of the left and right
hemispheres of the brain
• Describe the MASTER model
• Apply accelerated learning methods to the training
environment
Factors that affect how adults learn
• Their motivation to learn
• Linking their learning to past, present or future
experiences
• Practising what they have been taught
• Learning in an informal, stimulating and comfortable
environment
The Competency Staircase
unconscious
competence
conscious
competence
conscious
incompetence
unconscious
incompetence
Kolb’s Learning Cycle
Concrete
Experience
Active Reflective
Experimentation Observation
Abstract
Conceptualisation
Learning Styles Questionnaire
Are you an
• Activitist ?
• Pragmatist ?
• Reflector ?
• Theorist ?
SENDER
RECEIVER
RESPONDS ENCODES
MESSAGE
DECODES RECEIVED
“hearing is the process of the ears
receiving sound;
listening is the process of the brain
attaching meaning to the sound”
Giving Feedback
• Positive feedback is highly motivating.
5. Be timely
Scenario's for giving feedback
• Someone who during the review of the day makes
the same mistake for the fourth time.
3. Room set-up - ensure that the room is set up well, with plenty
of light and space
10. Use practical examples of how to apply the theory & skills -
summarising the benefits of the training.
Session 8 : Dealing with fears
Learning Objectives
• By the end of this session participants will:
• Have identified any remaining fears
• Be able to control these fears