Training Methods; Using the Material
 by
Phil Bartle, PhD

Module Introduction.

Documents Included in this Training Methods Module:

 How to Use The Material, trainers' reference;

 Community Management Training Curriculum Framework,
     planning your training;

 Preparing a Workshop, design a training workshop as you would a
     project;

 Ice Breakers, to relax participants in a work shop;

 Role Playing and Simulation Games, a training technique;

 The Power of Suns, a simulation game;

 Playing a Role, notes for participants;

 Telling Stories; practical communication tools; not just
     Entertainment;

 Communications Techniques, various methods to get the message
     across;

 Two Boys, West African wood carving tells a story; and

Slogans & Proverbs. more practical communication tools for community
work.

Skill to do comes of doing.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Unlike most of the modules on this web site, which contain content
 (eg capacity development), this module is concerned with how
 to use the material, how to plan and implement the training.

 The core document explains that the material can be used directly in
 training, each module containing several documents, aimed at
 different users, trainers, trainees, or it can be used indirectly as
 guidelines in setting up your own, locally relevant, training
 material. see the trainers' reference: How to Use The
 Material. Either way you can pick and choose the material, as if in
 a cafeteria, according to your assessment of training needs.

 The core document also explains that this material is designed
 mainly for learning outside orthodox training institutions, it is
 for learning while on the job, perhaps by organizing training
 workshops. It complements the informal and ad hoc learning while
 actually carrying out duties.

 The document argues that of the various ways of learning (eg
 through: reading listening, watching), the most effective is
 learning while doing. This can be in (1) artificially set up
 situations in the classroom of the workshop, or (2) in the field
 with un-controlled situations based on real life.

 Other documents in the module include topics such as role playing
 (see: Role Playing and Simulation Games and Playing a Role for
 participants), story telling (see: Telling Stories), using proverbs
 (see: Slogans & Proverbs). When you are setting up a syllabus or
 curriculum of training (see: Framework for a Community Management
 Training Curriculum) appropriate to your situation or the needs of
 your organization, consider using some of these alternatives to
 lectures or presentations in the class room.

 When you are ready to hold a training workshop, good preparation is
 essential.

 See the "Preparing a Workshop" for guidelines in designing a
 workshop as you would design a project.

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Updated: 2003 April 21