Facilitating Learning™: Course Content (PART I)

Facilitating Learning™ teaches advanced audience involvement and presentation techniques; dealing with different audience types and challenges, polishing presentation skills; structuring a presentation; and the experiential learning cycle to design interactive adult learning.

This two-day workshop typically includes the following modules.

Module 1: Welcome and Introduction to Facilitating Learning™

• Housekeeping and agenda

Module 2: Introductions and Objectives with Feedback from Facilitator

• Participant introductions with feedback and optional DVD recording for small groups

Module 3: Setting the Stage for Learning to Prepare and Anticipate Needs

• Setting the stage, establishing the agenda and using handouts effectively

Module 4: Experiential Learning Cycle to Design Interactive Learning

• Understanding how adults learn and designing experiential learning

Module 5: Learning Styles and Patterns to Understand Your Audience

• Knowing how to engage all learning styles and communication patterns and preferences

Module 6: Managing Different Participant Types to Deal with All Types of Learners

• Dealing with challenging learners including the nitpicker, the talker and the disinterested

Module 7: Facilitating Challenges to Create an Effective and Flexible Learning Community

• Getting the group to interact, leading group discussions,staying focused, giving clear instructions, handling tough questions and using time management

Module 8: Controlling Your Environment to Manage the Distractions

• Making the right decisions for room set-up and using the technology and tools

Module 9: Designing Interactive Learning to Engage Learners and Get Results

• Designing balanced learning using a variety of facilitation strategies including group discussions, games and quizzes, role playing, group activities and energizers

PART II

(Skill-Set: Facilitation Skills, Train-the-Trainer)

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