Length: 5-days
Target Audience: Staff who develop courses, lesson plans, and facilitate formal training
Goal: Introduce students to the fundamentals of course design, lesson plans, facilitation skills and techniques to effectively promote student engagement while managing the classroom.
The Moser Training Solutions, LLC General Instructor Development course is an intensive 40-hour hands-on course, with likely after-hour course preparation work. Facilitated over 5-days, this course consists of ten primary subject areas:
Curriculum development Creating learner-centric environments
Presentation skills Using training aids effectively while managing the classroom
Student practical application Writing performance objectives using Bloom’s Taxonomy
Adult learning Facilitation strategies and instructional standards
Managing liability & Testing Methods to accomplish participant engagement
Goal: Develop participants knowledge and skills necessary to allow them to create and deliver effective. ethical and realistic performance-based training for law enforcement personnel in accordance with POST requirements.
This general instructor certification course is designed to develop the participants’ abilities to promote active learning within their Agency courses. Emphasis will be placed on creating learner-centric training environments and facilitation approaches that accomplish student engagement. Throughout the week attendees will independently create curriculum, prepare a formatted lesson plan, and then facilitate their developed course for classmate feedback and evaluation.
Objectives:
- Create curriculum associated with an assigned topic following evidence-based practices
- Develop a lesson plan using a four-step process to write a lesson plan, using performance-based objectives designed to increase reality-based transferable training
- Use Domains of Learning and Bloom’s taxonomies of each domain, the student will write multiple performance objectives in each of the domains at multiple levels of each taxonomy
- Conduct a task analysis in conjunction with course design
- Distinguish variances between training, instruction, education and presentations
- Define learning and discuss adult learning preferences
- Summarize principles of adult learning and learner-centric training approaches
- Format a lesson plan consistent with CO POST practices
- Facilitate a 20-minute training course following a lesson plan created by the participant
- Demonstrate how to promote involvement and effectively “manage” the classroom
- Use learned techniques to enhance overall communication and presentation skills
- Develop techniques to inspire and engage students in active learning
- Name training resources and aids, and define their proper application in the classroom
- Design clear test questions
- Demonstrate excitement and energy in training
- Compose an effective presentation opening
- Define techniques for capturing and holding audience attention
- Develop a plan for facilitating difficult discussions and working with challenging audiences
- Discuss instructor related liability and methods to manage associated risk
- Use vocal range, tone, and body language to enhance presentations
- Write a closing to a presentation that inspires action
- Create question and answer periods that promote involvement
- Assess what was learned
- Review Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model
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