2016 End of the Year ICT Trainer’s Notes
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.
- Always have a separate Gmail account for applications testing.
- Introduce the function of the incognito window to teachers learning new applications.
- In planning a training, allot 20-25% of the time for application testing & selection.
- In designing a training, allot another 20-25% of the time for engagement testing.
- A very good use experience of an application include learner’s side and addressing troubles, not just the trainer’s side.
- Place a reasonable amount of practice time for your trainees.
- 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.
- Create a list of your DIY handyman tools & applications (e.g. the Google Drive) and introduce it to your trainees.
- 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.
- At the end of each training day, calibrate the knowledge and skills acquired by the trainees.Get feedback from them.
- Typically, trainees get to reflect on their application usage inquiries and needs after day two of the training.
- It pays to have your notes on the flow of the discussions. I call mine as “simulation notes”.
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