HOW TO WRITE TERRIFIC
TRAINING MATERIALS
(a one-day workshop)
Improve your skill in developing training materials which include writing training proposals and plans, lesson plans, learner handout materials and tests. Also learn how to develop activities, exercises and audiovisual scripts. Special emphasis is placed on readability and writing differently for different purposes.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
At the end of the training, you will be able 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
- Suggestion ways to avoid scripting pitfalls
WORKSHOP CONTENT
Unit 1: How To Get Started
- Self- assessment: measure your strengths and weaknesses
- Types of materials: is the objective knowledge or skill?
- Develop personal objectives
Unit 2: Organize and Plan Materials Development
- 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
Unit 3: Develop Learner Activities and Exercises
- 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
Unit 4: Learner Handout Materials and Tests
- 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
Unit 5: Effective Lesson Plans
- 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
Unit 6: Develop Audio-Visual Scripts
- 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
CEUs:
This workshop qualifies for .6 of continuing education units.

