Foundations of Training
- BEFORE DRAFTING YOUR TRAINING: Please read this thorough TRAINERS TRAINING GUIDE (link here)
- Core values for training
- Everyone is a teacher: In training, the aim of the trainer is to guide the participants in identifying the answers to questions themselves. Participants are recognized as thinking, creative people with the capacity for action. This type of philosophy is in contrast to traditional methods of education, in which the teacher is seen as possessing all essential information and the participants passively absorb information. This type of learning experience can often be in contrast to what people are used to. Can make the training challenging if such is the case.
- Active listening: This necessitates that a trainer is always actively listening, picking up what participants are saying, digging for more clarity from the group, and tying together key points.
- Experiential: As much as possible, participants should put their learning straight to work. Practicing the skill is far better than talking about it!
- The MoveOn Training Model
- A successful training will follow the model below. In doing so, the training will be participatory, experiential and empowering.
- Look at chart with two columns: Training Model (link here)
- The teacher is seen as possessing all essential information.
- The students are seen are “empty vessels,” needing to be filled with knowledge.
- Teacher talks.
- Students passively absorb information.
- Trainer provides a frame-work for thinking, creative, active participants to consider a common problem and find solutions.
- Trainer raises questions: Why? Who? How?
- Participants are active: analyzing, describing planning, deciding and suggesting.
TRAINING MODEL
| Many Traditional Education Methods | Participatory Training Methods (MoveOn!) |
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- To Help US with this, there is a 4-step training model that we use.
- A successful training will follow the model below. In doing so, the training will be participatory, experiential and empowering.
- Step 1. Start with the Experience of Participants. Learning begins with the experience or knowledge of participants.
- Step 2. Add New Information and Theory. To avoid the limitations of the knowledge and experience of participants the room, collectively add or create new information.
- Step 3. Practice Skills, Strategize or Plan for Action. Participants need to experience the new skill and try what they have just learned.
- Step 4. Reflect. Participants reflect upon the new skill and information, debrief how they can directly apply that skill, and learn from the reflections of others.