2016 End of the Year ICT Trainer’s Notes

by Maria Victoria Pineda

As the year ends, I wish to impart practices that I embrace that may be insightful to other trainers as well. These are not arranged according to importance but they all have bearing when preparing, designing or delivering any ICT workshop-training.

1. Always have a separate Gmail account for applications testing.
2. Introduce the function of the incognito window to teachers learning new applications.
3. In planning a training, allot 20-25% of the time for application testing & selection.
4. In designing a training, allot another 20-25% of the time for engagement testing.
5. A very good use experience of an application include learner’s side and addressing troubles, not just the trainer’s side.
6. Place a reasonable amount of practice time for your trainees.
7. Introduce the practice of creating two email accounts for the trainees’ testing, one for the teacher/trainer user and one for the student user. This avoids messing up the work email of the trainee and leads to a smooth engagement testing.
8. Create a list of your DIY handyman tools & applications (e.g. the Google Drive) and introduce it to your trainees.
9. Make the training service requesting party understand that before a trainer decides on the content application, it goes through selection testing first. Requesting parties need to understand that a good amount of time is needed by a trainer in the selection of the application, testing of the application and inclusion to the training syllabus.
10. At the end of each training day, calibrate the knowledge and skills acquired by the trainees.Get feedback from them.
11. Typically, trainees get to reflect on their application usage inquiries and needs after day two of the training.
12. It pays to have your notes on the flow of the discussions. I call mine as “simulation notes”.