Designing and Delivering Great Training
We always make sure that our Designing and Delivering Great Training (Training of Trainers) is flexible enough to accomodate your different local specifications and needs. It is, however, like all CLAE courses, premised on the belief that teaching others - whether community members, lay advocates, or peers - is an essential facet of effective advocacy. In addition, this training recognizes, and demonstrates, that learning is most potent when interactive and reflective of participants' experience and goals. Upon these foundations, and while working toward a concrete training goal, Training of Trainers will help you to identify the learning characteristics of audiences, the instructional methods most suited to meeting different ends, and the implications of using a range of teaching techniques.
"The Center for Legal Aid Education offers a realistic and affordable opportunity to provide high quality, accessible training to legal aid lawyers throughout the country. (It) will forge a national community of advocates, able and willing to work together to addres the most formidable legal problems facing low income people."
- Lonnie A. Powers, Executive Director, Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation
Faculty Information
Designing and Delivering Great Training is presented through the support and partnership of the Practising Law Institute and features the expertise of David Cruickshank, one of the nation's leading authorities on adult and legal education methods.
David, a former law professor and practitioner in Canada, was most recently Director of Professional Development at Paul Weiss, Wharton & Garrison in New York. He is now a partner in the international consulting firm of Kerma Partners.
Sample Training Agenda
Here's a rough guide to this training - the topics that come to the fore depend, in large part, on your particular training goals. Also, we make sure to include an hour's break for lunch each day, as well as timely breaks for beverages and snacks. The training begins promptly at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 15 and ends at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, May 16.
DAY 1
The Characteristics of Adult Learners
Training Techniques and Methods
Learning Objectives and Training Design
Lecture Design and Presentation
Panel Design and Presentation
Understanding and Responding to Different Audiences
DAY 2
Training Theory Into Practice
Small Group Practice
'Taking It Home'