Principles of Learning – How Learning Works
Instructors and Trainers are facilitators of learning. Participants are responsible for learning and only learn based on their own actions and behaviour.
Maintaining Individual Engagement
To ensure individual participants remain engaged:
- Keep Interactions short (20-25 mins, 5 min end of interaction) to keep participants on board.
- Stand up breaks every 1.5 hours
- Combine Presentation and Discussion – involve participants actively
- Use activities to ensure participants commit to involvement
- Observe all, bring back those being left behind or distracted
- Use “Phones Down” to get participants to focus on presentation and discussion
- Use “Phones Up” to focus participants on required exercises and activity
Managing Group activities
Some points to consider when creating groups for exercises:
- Participants are at different levels of technology adoption and usage.
- Ensure groups have mix of competencies. Ideally have one or more participants in each group that can be called on to assist others on more complex exercises. Leveraging peer based learning.
- Ensure all participants are included during activities. Observe and intervene as needed. Step in and ask questions to bring “outsiders” back in.