Train the Trainer I - Designing a Lively and Effective Seminar

Learning as a holistic process:

• Biology of learning
• Brain
• Memory
• Laws of learning

Overall seminar planning, orientation to participants' needs:

• Collection of material
• Defining learning objectives
• Levels of learning objectives
• Learning checks
• Core knowledge
• Background knowledge
• Supplementary knowledge
• Time
• Target group analysis
• Homogeneous (heterogeneous) structure of the group
• Practice-orientation

Methods of conveying information and deepening understanding, presentation media:

• Presentation
• Teaching dialogue
• Discussion
• Group work
• Individual work
• Partner work
• Importance of using media
• Flipchart
• Pinboard
• LCD projector
• Techniques and aids
• Use of handouts and seminar notes

Visualisation in seminars:

• Rules
• Elements
• Means

Seminar phases:

• Beginning
• Learning sequence: Introduction, development, deepening
• Checking learning objectives
• Repetition

Use of handouts in seminars:

• Key word notes
• Work organisation
• Reference work
• Different kinds of handouts
• Which handout for which purpose?
• Which contents are important?
• When do I hand them out?
• How do I use them?

Quality assurance:

• Process control in the seminar: Needs analysis, clarifying the situation, clarifying the task
• Seminar controls
• Know-how transfer
• Planning follow-up phases

• Good command of English is required to follow the seminar.
• No additional formal requirements or prior knowledge are necessary.

• Seminar leaders and trainers who want to enhance their skills in designing and delivering seminars.
• Multipliers working in adult education who want to deepen their didactic expertise.