Overview

Course Description

This course enables organizational trainers to vastly improve their ability to deliver meaningful learning sessions. This course examines both the classic learning theories that have guided the work of effective educators as well as the very recent discoveries on how the brain receives, processes, stores, and retrieves information. Equally important, participants will prepare and deliver numerous practice presentations while receiving coaching feedback from an award-winning instructor with over 20 years of classroom delivery experience.

Prerequisites

A basic familiarity with the subject matter is helpful, but not required.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Educational Theory

• Adult Motivation
• Andragogy
  • Adult Experience
  • Time Horizons
  • Subject vs. Problem Orientation
• Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy
  • Knowledge
  • Comprehension
  • Application
  • Analysis
  • Synthesis
  • Evaluation
• Bloom’s Affective Taxonomy
  • Receiving
  • Responding
  • Valuing
  • Organizing
  • Internalizing
• Kirkpatrick’s Levels of Evaluation
  • Affective
  • Performance
  • Summative
  • Return on Investment
• Behaviorism in the Classroom
  • Classic Conditioning
  • Operant Conditioning:
  • Punishment, Reinforcement, Shaping
  • Reinforcement Schedules and Extinction
• Kolb’s Learning Styles
  • Concrete Experience
  • Observation
  • Analysis
  • Experimentation
• Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
• Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners
• Tell, Teach, Tell – An Integrated Model for Presentations
  • Overview and Benefits
  • Framing the Learning Experience
  • Delivery incorporating the Logical and the Affective
  • Summarizing and Reflection

• Course Evaluations
  • Benefits
  • Discerning Core Competencies
  • Ethical Concerns of Course Evaluation
• Assessing Learner Characteristics Methods
  • Ask, Polling, Surveys. Electronic Means, Contact Person
• Challenging Learners
  • Misplaced, Apprehensive, Late, Slow, Experts, Frustrated
  • Beginning and Ending Class

Lesson 2: Brain-Based Learning

• Brain Basics
• Nutrition
• Volume of Instructional Content
• Emotion and Learning
• Physical Movement and Learning
• Safe Learning Environment
• Five Factors of the Learning Environment

Lesson 3: Class Preparation

• General Hints
• Prepping Exercise
• Instructor’s Prepping Systems and Tips

Lesson 4: Supplemental

• Board Set-up
• Beginning Class Guidelines