Course:           Instructor Development (Train-The-Trainer)
Length:           5-days (40 hours)
Goal:               Develop participant skills associated with curriculum development and their ability to accomplish classroom or scenario facilitation.

The General Instructor Development course is an intensive 40-hour hands-on course, with likely after-hour course preparation work. This 5-day course consists of 10 primary subject areas:

1. Curriculum development
2. Writing performance objectives
3. The adult learner
4. Facilitation strategies
5. Presentation skills
6. Creating learner-centric environments
7. Use of training aids while managing the classroom
8. Trainers liability
9. Methods to accomplish participant engagement and promote learning
10. Student practical application

From lesson plan development to classroom facilitation, this course is designed to develop participants into instructors/facilitators who can promote active-learning within their courses. Emphasis will be placed on creating learning environments that address cognitive, interpretive, and psychomotor-skill development. Each attendee will independently create curriculum, prepare a  formatted lesson plan and then facilitate their developed course for evaluation within a 20-minute time frame.

Objectives.  The students will:

• Create curriculum associated with an assigned topic
• Develop a lesson plan using a four-step process
• Conduct a task analysis in conjunction with their course design
• Write learning objectives containing an action verb and content area
• Distinguish variances between training, instruction and education
• Define learning
• Summarize principles of adult learning and learner-centric approaches
• Format a lesson plan consistent with APOST practices
• Facilitate a 20-minute training course based on their written lesson plan
• Demonstrate how to promote involvement and effectively “manage” the classroom
• Use learned techniques to enhance their overall communication skills
• Develop techniques to inspire and engage their students in active learning
• Name training resources and aids, and define their proper application in the classroom
• Design test questions that are clearly understood by their classmates
• Demonstrate excitement and energy in their 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