Training Methods and Activities: Understanding Training Methods and Activities

Categories:

Active Learning (8) ^new: Active learning is not so much a single instructional method but a family of methods based on the idea that the more active the learner the better learning will be.

Brainstorming (15) ^new: Learn about the function of brainstorming, hints and tips about how to make it work and how to avoid pitfalls.

Case Method (8) ^new: We look at the case method/case study approach, strengths and weaknesses, and ideas to make it work.

Cooperative Learning (26) ^new: Cooperative learning (and teaching) is based on the idea that people learn when they are working together in teams, and often teaching each other.

Creativity Exercises (1) ^new: Exercises, activities, icebreakers intended to spur creativity in participants.

Energizers (10): Here's a collection of energizers you can use with groups to increase physical or mental alertness.

Games for TeamBuilding (5) ^new: Here you will find ready to use instructions and/or material to help you run games designed to build teams, and teamwork.

Icebreakers (46): Trainers and facilitators are always looking for icebreakers. Here's your gateway to finding them on the Internet.

Leadership Development (2): Here you will find various activities specifically designed to be used for leadership development purposes.

Questioning Techniques (7): Questioning techniques are essential in increasing learning and fostering learning interactions in training. Here's how to use them, and it's more complex than you'd think.

Role Playing (21) ^new: Learn about how to conduct role plays properly to maximize learning, and find out about the pitfalls of the technique.

Simulations (8): Simulations are powerful training techniques particularly when they are as similar to the performance environment as possible. Here we will discuss how simulations can be used effectively in training and development.

Storytelling (8): Storytelling used to be the most common way of teaching others, particularly in oral tradition based cultures. It still is a valuable learning and training tool.

Value Clarification Exercises (0): Exercises designed to examine values and clarify them.

Video - Audio - Feedback (0): While the use of video and audio based feedback is more common in therapy, it still remains an abused process often often led by incompetent trainers. Learn more about using video or audio for feedback purposes in learning and training.

Wellness and Stress (0): Here you'll find wellness and stress reduction activities suitable for use at work, in an organized fashion, or for on your own use.

Training and Education Resources:

Cognitive Apprenticeship - Collins, et al.
By na - Effective teachers "involve" students in learning as apprentices: they work alongside students and/or set up situations that will cause students to begin to work on problems even before fully understanding them. A key aspect of an "apprenticeship" approach to teaching involves breaking the problem into parts so that students are challenged to master as much of a task as they are ready to handle. In addition, teachers are encouraged to provide students with varying kinds of practice situations before moving on to more challenging tasks, allowing an understanding that surpasses the use of formulas. ^new (Added: 4-Jul-2010 Hits: 88 )

A Cognitive Apprenticeship for Disadvantaged Students
By Allan Collins Jan Hawkins Sharon M. Carver - cognitive apprenticeship, refers to the focus of the learning-through-guided experience in cognitive skills and processes, rather than physical ones. Although we do not wish to draw a major theoretical distinction between the learning of physical and cognitive skills, there are differences that have practical implications for the organization of teaching and learning activities. Most importantly, traditional apprenticeship has evolved to teach domains in which the process of carrying out target skills is external, and thus readily available to both student and teacher for observation, comment, refinement, and correction, and bears a relatively transparent relationship to concrete products. The externalization of relevant processes and methods makes possible such characteristics of apprenticeship as its reliance on observation as a primary means of building a conceptual model of a complex target skill. And the relatively transparent relationship, at all stages of production, between process and product facilitates the learner's recognition and diagnosis of errors, upon which the early development of self-correction skill depends. ^new (Added: 4-Jul-2010 Hits: 73 )

Body Language Exercise Collection
By na - These exercises are designed to help students tune in to the subtleties of body language and what they might mean about interpersonal behavior. ^new (Added: 19-Jan-2010 Hits: 225 )

44 call centre training tips
By Kevin Stillwell - There has never been a better time to train our call centre staff. We asked for training tips and have been amazed by the response. Here are the 44 great tips we were sent%u2026 ^new (Added: 2-Dec-2009 Hits: 240 )

Beyond Simulation - Into Dissimulation
By n a - Learn more about dissimulation as a training technique. The author shares some thoughts to help you determine whether dissimulation is a viable training technique for you to use. (Added: 31-Aug-2007 Hits: 305 )

Evaluate Training Games With This Checklist
By n a - Depending on the training objective and the characteristics of the participants, different items may be more relevant than the others. Use the checklist to choose among different training games and activities. Also use it to evaluate and improve your own creations. (Added: 31-Aug-2007 Hits: 354 )