Anyone Can Train

Anyone can become a trainer of trained to do so.

Vision

Many people have lots of deep knowledge and experience trapped into them while at the same time much more people are in need of such knowledge and experience and their lives could be greatly enhanced if they had easy access to such knowledge and experience.

Mission

Our mission is to unleash the trapped knowledge and experience that many people have by:

• training those people on how to become effective trainers
• providing them with an avenue through which they can deliver training to the masses in the fields of their expertise

The idea developed from courses for scanners.

Skills

We aim at building the following set of skills in the wold-be trainers:

• Speaking in front of an audience with confidence.
• Managing student questions.
• Preparing training materials.

How

This training program gets the would-be trainers ready for becoming trainers by providing a solid theoretical background and how humans learn followed by a thorough practical workshop-style module to practice their skills as trainers and gain more confidence in becoming trainers.

Theory

Theory of learning including:

• Learning methods (how humans learn inspired by children learning methods).
• Learning spiral.
• Focus on training as a learning method.

Practice

Allow trainee trainersrs to practice their skills as trainers through:

• Give each trainee trainer an assignment to prepare and deliver a 15-minute presentation about a field he or she is experienced in. The presentation must be informative, engaging, easy to understand, enjoyable and memorable.

Modules

• Sources of knowledge
• How children learn
• observation (as the master of all learning methods. (the crow as the first teacher)).
• Why we need training (the function of training and how it fits in the various learning methods).
• Building student confidence
• Presentation skills for trainers
• preparing for a training session (+ visualization)
• Explaining new concepts (different methods of).
• Classroom management
• managing difficult students
• Preparing training materials
• Googling with the right keywords (how to come up with effective keywords / keyword selection)
• creating a presentation
• designing workshop activities
• Practice using teaching aids (flip chart, whiteboard, video projector)
• Quality control (measuring the quality of the training)
• continually improving  yourself as a trainer (Better Trainers)
• Project (preparing training materials + delivering a training session)

Activities

• Showing videos of good and bad examples of delivering training.
• Having participants role play good and bad trainer and student scenarios.
• Remember a training course you have attended and liked a lot. Draw a picture of it.
• Talk about your own mistakes in delivering training (laughing at a clueless learner ... related the story).
• Ask groups of 3 to prepare training materials (during session).
• Display a video of an ineffective trainer while delivering training. After watching the video, ask participants to point out the errors he made.
• List the qualities of a good trainer (participants do this individually, in pairs or in groups).

Concepts

Videos

Assignments

Total Immersion

• Ask participants to deliver training about something they know. After they are done, elicit comments from the rest of the participants. Write their comments, both positive and negative, on a flip chart sheet. (This enable all participants to be sharply aware of good and bad practices in delivering training.) This activity would help build their confidence in delivering training.

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