HOW TO WRITE TERRIFIC TRAINING MATERIALS
a one-day workshop

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Trainers, training managers, course developers, media developers and human resource professionals.

• How to easily organize your ideas to develop training materials
• Develop effective learner handouts and tests
• Easily write lesson plans others can use
• Help learners discover and develop skills through appropriate activities and exercises
• Practice editing and writing training materials
• Practice a technique to overcome writer's block
• Use checklists for lesson plan, handout and test development
• Improve materials readability
• Convert classroom materials for distance learning
• Suggestions to avoid scripting pitfalls

• Self- assessment: measure your strengths and weaknesses
• Types of materials: is the objective knowledge or skill?
• Develop personal objectives

• Where development fits into the "big" picture of program design
• 7 steps to organize your ideas
• "Mapping" strategies to brainstorm and organize your ideas
• How to sequence content and learning activities
• Test your copy's readability - format and display tips

• How to build retention through 5 types of learning interactions
• Create "discovery learning" in your activities
• Create inventories, skill practice and multi-part exercises
• How to develop realistic case studies
• Use a comprehensive guide to develop activities and exercises

• How to develop programmed notes
• Write valid and reliable tests
• Use a 16-point checklist to develop complete handouts and tests
• Identify 3 types of handout materials
• Write skill performance checklists

• When to develop 3 types of lesson plans
• How to develop your lesson plan for others to use easily
• Use a 15-point checklist on lesson plan development

• Select appropriate audio-visual media
• Identify advantages and disadvantages of various media
• How to write a script treatment
• Scripting do's and don'ts
• Techniques to convert classroom materials for distance learning
  
  

  Methods Used:
  	Lecturettes		Discussions		Case Studies		Inventories
  	Audiovisuals		Role Plays		Self Assessments		Checklists
  	Audit Instruments		Planning Tools		Action Plans

   

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