This short presentation looks at some of the considerations you need to make when designing training sessions

1. The Training Cycle Making Your Training Sessions More Enjoyable & Effective MTD Training, 5 Orchard Court, Binley Business Park, Coventry, CV3 2TQ Web: www.mtdtraining.com Phone: 0800 849 6732

2. The Training Cycle | Source: Roger Buckley and Jim Caple, The Theory and Practice of Training (Kogan Page, 1995)

3. Creating a Safe Learning Environment | When learners are in a state of relaxed alertness, they are more open to suggestion and can learn more effectively

4. The ‘Triune Brain’ Theory | ‘ Paleomammalian’ brain processes emotions and long-term memory ‘ Neomammalian’ brain (80% of our brain mass). Deals with complex social interactions, abstract thought, advanced intellectual tasks and the generation of ideas ‘ Reptilian’ brain responsible for self-preservation

6. Learning Outcomes | should answer three questions

7. The Training Cycle | Source: Roger Buckley and Jim Caple, The Theory and Practice of Training (Kogan Page, 1995)

8. Kolb’s Learning Cycle | David A Kolb, Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development, 1st © 1984. Electronically reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

9. Kolb’s Learning Cycle | David A Kolb, Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development, 1st © 1984. Electronically reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Divergers Assimilators Convergers Accommodators

10. Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles |

11. Some Terms |

12. | Sitting still in confined places is one of the worst punishments that can be inflicted on the human species. Edward T. Hall cited in Dave Meier, The Accelerated Learning Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 2000), p37. Yet, this is what we require of students in school.

13. Accelerated Learning comprises many core techniques, such as: |

14. | “ Knowledge is experience. Everything else is just information.” Albert Einstein

15. Some Tips for Engaging Design... | total learner involvement talking aloud encourage collaboration among learners learning maps story telling colour demonstrations aromas video clips energisers drama movement concert review

16. % of what we remember when we… | Summary of research conducted by Dr Vernon Magnesen of the University of Texas, cited in Colin Rose, Master it Faster (The Industrial Society, 2000).

17. Four Steps to Effective Learning | Briefing Facilitating Debriefing Applying

18. The Training Cycle | Source: Roger Buckley and Jim Caple, The Theory and Practice of Training (Kogan Page, 1995)

20. Four Corners Review |

21. The Training Cycle | Source: Roger Buckley and Jim Caple, The Theory and Practice of Training (Kogan Page, 1995)

23. The Training Cycle | Source: Roger Buckley and Jim Caple, The Theory and Practice of Training (Kogan Page, 1995)

24. Purpose of Evaluation |

25. Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation |

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