Train the Trainer
Are you involved in running training sessions with staff or students? Are you interested in improving your skills? Then this is the programme for you.
Train the Trainer is a programme of 3, intensive, half-day workshops that will take you through the essential steps of designing and delivering an engaging and effective training session.
Within and between the workshops, you will design or modify a real training session that you will later deliver to a real audience. After the programme, we also offer the opportunity to receive constructive feedback on your training session.
Although the focus here is on running training or professional development, the programme should usefully inform teaching and engaging groups in general.
This programme is open to any member of University staff. Three workshops will be through the medium of English, with an extra, optional, session, for those who wish to train thought the medium of Welsh. The design of the programme is such that it forms a step-by-step process and, as there are a limited number of places, we ask that you are available for all of the workshops and that you are, or will be, engaged in delivering training.
The Train the Trainer Programme for 2012
| Date | Time | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 21/02/2012 | 11.00-12.30 | Introduction to train the trainer programme |
| 06/03/2012 | 09.30-12.00 | Workshop 1: Preparation |
| 16/03/2012 | 09.30-12.00 | Workshop 2: Engagement |
| 05/04/2012 | 09.30-12.00 | Workshop 3: The Highs and Lows |
| Optional session through the medium of Welsh | ||
| 24/04/2012 | 09.30-12.00 | Workshop 4: Hyfforddi yn Gymraeg |
If you would like further information please contact cdsap@aber.ac.uk
Workshop 1: Preparation
In this workshop, we will explore the differences and similarities between teaching and training and how these insights inform the design of training sessions. We will look at how we identify the needs of your audience; clarify the purpose of the session and design sessions that match the approach to the planned outcomes
Workshop 2: Engagement
In this session, we explore actual delivery of sessions and address the key question ‘How do you get and keep your audience’s attention?’
We will look at the critical points in a session, particularly the opening and closing of sessions and by exploring the idea of Learning Styles; we will find ways to engage an audience of diverse needs.
Workshop 3: The Highs and Lows
In this session, we will investigate some of the techniques that trainers use to energise sessions and also deal with difficult situations that can arise.
Workshop 4: Welsh Medium Training
This optional session, delivered in Welsh, looks at issues that those delivering training, through the medium of Welsh, might encounter. These include dealing with an audience whose command of Welsh may vary and issues of specialist terminology.
*The Learning styles session will include an online questionnaire prior to the workshop.