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Unit 8: Training Methods

Notes
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Caution Demonstrations need careful, strategic build-up by a competent trainer to be
really successful, and considerable coaching skills during the resultant practice by the
trainee if they are to reach experienced worker standard within the allotted time span.
A typical skill-type session based upon the demonstration and practice technique might look
like this:
Commencement.
Check (positioning of trainees, everything ready).
Demonstrate silently speed for task.

Demonstrate the task again, this time with verbal explanation, one stage at a time.
Discussion, question and answer, clarification.
Demonstration by trainees individually with trainer correcting faults.

Trainees dispersing to practise.
Supervised practice by trainees, trainer acting as coach.
The demonstration method begins when you, as trainer, perform an activity or behaviour while
learners observe and then later perform. The demonstration can include action performed by
someone other than you, such as a videotape or learner. Behaviour modelling and demonstration
both allow participants in training to learn through observation before performing on their
own.

Notes Illustration: Demonstration Method
The instructor/trainer should perform the following demonstration. At the end of the
demonstration, the trainer could give brain storming exercise to the trainees by asking
them to list how many ways a newspaper can be used.

Demo : Folding The Paper
Take a centre spread sheet of a newspaper (double page), show it to the participants and
ask them to guess how many times that paper can be folded. The paper should be folded
in the centre, again it is folded in the centre, a third time it is folded in the centre and this
process continues. Participants will tell wild numbers, some even go up to 20 or 30. Write
these numbers on the black (white) board and ask the person who has guessed highest
number, to come forward and fold the paper. To the utter surprise of everyone, the paper
could not be folded further after 8 rounds.
This is to demonstrate how our estimates go far from realistic targets. It is better to pause
and ponder than to talk aimlessly and then regret internally. Do not act in haste and repent
in leisure.
How many ways a newspaper can be used. Ask the participants to list the uses. Normally
trainees could list up to 20. The following is an example of how many ways a newspaper
can be used. Compare your solution with the following proposal from a 10-year-old boy:

You can read it, write on it, lay it down and paint a picture on it. You could put it in your
door for decoration, put it in garbage can, put it on a chair if the chair is messy. If you have
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