Train the Trainers Workshop: Design, Engage and Equity

PREPARING FOR A TRAINING 

• Planning a training to match your goals and participants expectations

• Understand how to prepare for workshop and frame for your audience so they know what to expect 

• Review how to align your presentation to the technology

• Understand why we get nervous speaking in public and review ways to manage your public speaking anxiety

OPENING A TRAINING

• Explain how to develop opening exercises to engage participants at the beginning of an online workshop 

• Understand how to facilitate activities to create group cohesion and building community 

• Participate in different exercises with the goal of understanding how to adapt these activities for your audience

ENGAGED LEARNING

• Analyze how to incorporate concepts of engaged and deep learning and connecting activities to learning objectives

• Understand how to manage different learning styles 

• Review how to use handouts and supplemental learning tools 

BUILDING YOUR TRAINER TOOLKIT 

• Review platforms tools and structures to use to build your personal toolkit whether you train online or in person  

CREATING SLIDES

• Compare sample presentation slides from real workshops

• Examine what works well in preparing slides and what to avoid
  

LEARNING OBJECTIVES & INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

• Understand how to develop and craft learning objectives that focus on outcomes and results rather than topics

• Assess how to develop learning objectives that match the content provided

• Understand how to develop content that is applicable from theory to concept and how to design content in a workshop so that adult learners can apply what they are learning

INTEGRATING CONCEPTS OF ADULT LEARNING & MEETING PARTICIPANTS EXPECTATIONS

• Review how adults learn best and methods to integrate adult learning styles to ensure effective training delivery

• Understand how to meet participants expectations even if lead mandatory trainings 

• Discuss how to incorporate adult learning theory into workshops, trainings and orientations

DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION 

• Understand how to incorporate diversity, equity and inclusion in a training, workshop or meeting 

• Review structures to ensure inclusive design approaches in meetings, trainings and workshops

• Practice how to manage difficult situations and conversations in a training. *Be prepared to think about real examples that you have experienced as a participant or trainer

• Analyze how to design professional development in an equitable way

FRAMEWORKS & THEORIES REVIEWED

• ADDIE Model of Instructional Design 

• Bloom's Taxonomy

• Study of Adult Learning: Andragogy 

• Trauma Informed Facilitation 

• Methods to incorporate diversity, equity and inclusion into training and curriculum