INSTRUCTIONAL SKILLS BGN101

E Learning Course -Learn to Train Staff on the Job

Course Duration: 100 hours

"Learning more about the essential skills for teaching."

COURSE AIM

• 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 as follows:1. Introduction to Training – 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 qualification will I achieve for completing this course? 

This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study.

If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.

If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.

If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments.

There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.

Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.

You can find further information on the examinations process by clicking on the “Enrolment” link above.

You can find further information on other courses by clicking on the “Courses” link above.

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 Complexity
• 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 youIdentify 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.

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  How Long will it take to complete the course?

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E Learning Course -Learn to Train Staff on the Job

"Learning more about the essential skills for teaching."This course fully satisfies requirements for a training skills qualification necessary to work as a workplace trainer. An accredited advanced diploma module.
Satisfies Workplace Trainer Category I & II