Train the Trainer

Level

Initial training

Target audience / relevant staff

Anyone in charge to animate adult training courses.

Objectives

Acquire pedagogical techniques allowing to transfer efficiently its know-how and its expertise.

Contents

Theoretical

• Rules of communication applied to training: Mechanisms of communication and barriers.
• Role of the group in the training course: Personalities and specificities of groups / Interactions inside the group / Creating a group dynamics / Regulating dysfunctions.
• Basic principles of pedagogy: The learning mechanisms of adults / Typology of learners / Rhythms of learning and curves of attention / The different teaching methods / Adequacy methods and teaching aids.
• Prepare well to animate: Appropriate youself the necessary material for the animation / Identify objectives / Prepare for mental and logistic plan / Project positively.
• Good training start: Break the Ice, Introduce yourself, assert yourself in front of the group / Create a favorable climate for learning.
• Facilitating a training sequence: Public Speaking / Gesture and Look / Verbal and Non Verbal / Managing Stress / Managing Learner Attention / Dealing with Sensitive Situations / Know how to conclude a training course.

Practice

Continuous exercises / Active Situations.