This program is designed for:

• Seasoned Instructors wishing to hone their skills
• Subject matter experts who have been asked to teach
• Managers, supervisors, team leaders and coaches with teaching responsibilities

To provide additional and enhanced instructional techniques to instructors who have completed the Effective Classroom Instruction workshop.

• Adjust delivery methods and techniques to accommodate differences in student personalities and learning preferences (styles) 
• Create and use mnemonics to aid retention
• Identify the different strategies for effective "Team Teaching"
• Develop essential platform skills
• Use games, humor and gimmicks to enhance participation and learning
• Utilize a wide range of questioning techniques to handle almost any instructional situation
• Develop simple visual aids to focus and punctuate instruction, regardless of artistic ability or technological sophistication
• Describe strategies for blending self-directed instruction (i.e., e-learning) with traditional stand-up instruction
• Perform effective demonstrations and orchestrate small group and "hands-on" practice sessions
• Initiate activities to ensure proper follow-through after a training activity

*Introduction- Setting expectations for the 2-day workshop

*Advanced Questioning Techniques-Practice in the art of asking just the right question to extract a specific learning point from students; how to create questions to test recall, comprehension and application capability

*Learning Styles-How to vary delivery methods and instructional techniques in order to accommodate differences and personality types. Students will be given a learning style assessment tool to determine their own preferences

*Games, Humor, Gimmicks and Storytelling-Do's and don'ts of using these techniques successfully; when and when not to use them

*Mnemonics-How to create memory aids for confusing facts, concepts, process or procedures

*Essential Platform Skills-How to ensure that your physical and vocal presentation contributes to, rather than detracts from, learning 

*Putting the "Visual" in Visual Aids-How to combine words and pictures to accelerate the learning process; how to present even the most complex concept visually

 

*Practice Presentations-Students will deliver a 20-minute (maximum) presentation to a small group of peers, using a variety of techniques

*Team Teaching-Tips for maximizing the effectiveness of "team" taught classes; creative transitions between instructors

*Analogies-Practice in helping students relate the familiar to the unfamiliar

*Performing Demonstrations and Orchestrating "Hands-on" Practice-Four types of demonstrations; strategies for making "hands-on" practice successful

*Blended Learning-Various strategies for integrating traditional instructor-led training with self-directed, technology based learning opportunities

*Training Follow Through-Strategies for making sure that students will actually apply what they have learned in class; how to effectively interface with management

*Summary and adjourn

• Instructor consultation during the program
• Free telephone consultation after the program