Designing Effective Trainings

1. Designing Effective Trainings

2. Steps to Creating Learning Objectives At the end of this session, participants will be able to: • Identify ways to get to know learners and their needs. • Recognize effective learning objectives. • Identify the correct stage of learning for a given objective. • Describe how instruction and activities lead to understanding of the learning objectives. • Assess whether learning objectives have been met. • Submit their trainings to the Gateways to Opportunity Registry.

3. The Training Cycle- Step 1

4. Learning about your Learners • Why were you asked to provide training for them? • Have the learners had training on the same topic before? Background • How many will attend your session? • What is the demographic makeup of the learners (age, gender, other descriptive factors)? Demographics Level of Expertise • How familiar are the learners with the subject matter? • What do the learners want to know? • Are the learners interested in the subject? • Do the learners know why they are coming • to the training? Attitudes Expected Results • How can you meet the learners’ needs? • How does this training benefit the learners?

5. Learning about your Learners • Pre-training meeting • Training Registration form • Pre-training questionnaire

6. Review Quiz

8. Step 1 Review

9. The Training Cycle- Step 2

10. What is a Learning Objective? http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/verbaction.htm

11. What is a Learning Objective? A learning objective is a detailed description that states the expected change in participant learning, how the change will be demonstrated, and the expected level of the change. http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/verbaction.htm

12. Where do I start? • Think about what your learners’ knowledge level is prior to the training and what you want it to be by the end of the training. • Ask yourself, from start to end, step-by-step, what activities and information will get learners to the desired knowledge level by the end of the training. http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/verbaction.htm

13. Review Quiz

14. Questions to Ask When Creating Learning Objectives Are your objectives: Example Objective: By the end of the three hour training, participants will be able to recognize and care for a variety of first aid emergencies, such as burns, cuts and scrapes.

15. What Makes a Good Learning Objective? • The learning objective must be performance based. • The objective is clear and not subject to confusion. • The objective is action-oriented. • The end results can be seen and measured.

18. Common Mistakes When Writing Learning Objectives • Describing what the trainer is expected to do, instead of what the learner is expected to do • Including more than one expected behavior or task in a single objective. • Writing an objective that is unattainable given the level of the learner’s ability • Being too general and not clearly specifying the expected outcome – actually writing a goal • Using a general verb or action verb such as “understand”

19. Example Objectives Good Objective By the end of this training participants will be able to... • Discuss positive statements they have used in past experiences to encourage children to follow directions. Objective That Needs Improvement By the end of this training participants will be able to… • Think about positive statements they have used in past experiences to encourage children to follow directions.

20. More Example ObjectivesBy the end of this training participants will be able to...

21. Writing Objectives Activity

22. Writing Objectives Activity

23. The Training Cycle- Step 3

24. Designing Instruction • Instruction should be an expansion of your learning objectives. • When designing instruction use various methods of learning strategies.

25. Designing Learning Activities • Learning activities are interactive forms of instruction that require active learner participation. • Activities reinforce instruction.

26. Learn about your learners. The Training Cycle- Step 4 Design instruction and activities that support the learning objectives. Write learning objectives. Assess if the learning objectives have been met.

27. Assess Learning Objectives Determine whether the learning objectives were met.

29. Participant Evaluation The use of the Participant Evaluation Form is another way to assess if learning objectives have been met.

30. Training Cycle Review

31. Review

32. Gateways to Opportunity Registry-Approved Traininghttp://www.ilgateways.com/en/participant-application

33. Gateways to Opportunity Credentials

34. For Further Information contact.. • Mary Jane Simpkins, Learning Advancement Program Specialist (mjsimpkins@inccrra.org) • Julie Swanberg, Learning Advancement Coordinator (jswanberg@inccrra.org)