Tip #216: Training Best Practices and Content Decisions

This Tip looks at training best practices and content decisions that instructors make regarding lesson plan design and other content decisions.

We have discussed that we apply adult learning principles by using specific techniques in the classroom. Instructors make decisions about what will be taught and how it will be taught. Therefor, it is possible to determine the probability of learning in the classroom by evaluating these decisions.

Training Decisions

The decisions fall into three discrete categories:

1. Content: What content to cover in the class.
2. Learner Activities: What the learner will do to learn and to demonstrate that learning has occurred.
3. Learning Facilitation: What the instructor will do to facilitate the acquisition of that learning through stand up presentation and group facilitation.

There are five training best practices. They fall within these three categories. Today, we will consider the application of the first two training best practices that relate to Content decisions:

Content Decisions That Result in Training Best Practices

1.Lesson Plan

1. 1. There are learning objectives.
   2. The learning objectives are specific, observable and measurable.
   3. The lesson plan identifies desired learning levels.
   4. There is a variety of learning activities.

2.Content Decisions

1. 1. 1. There is a clear focus on key content.
      2. There is an organizing principle.
      3. Interesting but unimportant content is kept to a minimum.
      4. There is an appropriate amount of content for the time period.

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