Selecting training methods

Here are the prerequisites for selecting training methods for any training activity:

• You need to set training objectives.

  See:	Planning a training program

• You need to set training priorities.

  See:	How to set priorities for the training curriculum

• You need to design a curriculum.

  See:	Designing the training activity curriculum

Here are some guidelines to follow when you select training methods:

• Choose training methods suited to the training context.
• Combine principles of andragogy with a variety of teaching methods that allow for optimal training.

• Determine which training methods are most familiar to the trainees.

  Caution:

  You may find that certain Western training methods are not well received in a non-Western context.

  Tip:	Among many rural people, teaching methods which include demonstration, role-playing, and modeling are the most effective.

• Review the training activity objectives to make sure the training method is appropriate for achieving the objectives.

• Task module: Selecting training methods
• In task module: Planning a training activity
• In task module: Planning a training program
• In task module: Training literacy personnel, by Susan Malone, Angelika Marsch (contributor), Stephen L. Walter (contributor), Kenneth A. Boothe (editor), and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
• In task module: Developing an instructional program, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), Patricia M. Davis (contributor), Trudy K. Stewart (general editor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), and Adelle R. Walter (illustrator)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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