" The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery " Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer Prize winning poet.
To help trainers and facilitators focus on helping students develop skills and confidence and understand the issues in their workplace, our classroom training resources are comprehensive, clearly explained, easy to tailor, and completely flexible.
Flex training to your priorities
Activities and exercises such as role plays, group discussions, pairs and trios work, video case study exercises and individual action planning are presented as a complete workshop day with icebreakers as well as a series of short workshop or lunch break sessions addressing a single topic.
Focus on the mission critical
Comprehensive and clear explanation combined with suggestions of how to tailor content to different levels of student as well as organisational issues, make it easy for the less experienced trainer and line manager to deliver successful, relevant training sessions. Because we’ve put so much thought into the resources – guides, slides, video and handouts – you can save preparation time and focus on the mission critical issues.
Make the most of each training event
Our self-study learning – e-learning, interactive DVD, CD-Rom – fully complements the material in our classroom packs and can be used before an event to bring everyone to the same level of understanding or after it as a refresher. The blend of self-study learning and classroom training ensures that students improve their knowledge and skills, that you can focus on workplace issues and means that what’s learned in the classroom is much more likely to translate into results.
Comprehensive Workshop Guide
Each workshop guide starts with a section on how to use and tailor the resources and includes comprehensive resource lists, suggested schedules and materials checklists to use for preparation.
This section is followed by the suggested script for a workshop day starting with an introduction and icebreakers, followed by the content broken into topics that build on one another and tailed with a summary session. The script includes signposts for activities, handouts, slide changes, video clips, flipchart work and space for notes.
Workshop DVD/CD-Rom
Slides and video clips are quickly accessible in a hurry on our convenient DVDs or CDRom. The media can be run as a sequence when used to support a workshop day or from a Scene Select menu when used in individual sessions.
Reproducible Student Handouts
Student handouts provide background information and worksheets to support the classroom activities, places to make notes and individual action plans to help students make the move from classroom to workplace.
The handouts are produced as an MS Word document so that they can be branded and tailored if required. A paper copy is also included in the pack for photocopying.
The focus of the Workshop Sessions is to offer participants opportunities to:
- Practice new skills in a ‘safe’ environment
- Ask questions
- Relate general knowledge to a specific situation
- Potentially solve real life problems
- Learn more about the organisation itself
