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   CL Materials...

Working with Challenging Learners Self-Instructional Materials contain CL Workbooks & Learner's Guides:

  • Introduction to Challenging Learners
  • Getting Silent Learners to Respond
  • Channeling Difficult Learners' Energies and Emotions
  • Working with Special Learners

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   Instructor Materials

Become certified to conduct the CL Workshop. Challenging Learner Instructor Materials are available to certified, licensed instructors. Instructor Materials include:

  • Instructor's Guide & PowerPoint Presentations for each of the Modules listed above

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Working with Challenging Learners Materials...

How to Work with Silent, Difficult, & Special Learners

Introduction...

Working with Challenging Learners (CL) is a self-instructional program that is another step in ESF's process of becoming a professional trainer, hence the name "ProTrainer" which is ESF's Total Training Process (ESF's ISD Model). Challenging Learners is a competency-based program that enables the participant to use ESF?s advanced interactive instructional techniques (also known as "platform skills").

Interactive instructors, like all teachers, frequently discover difficult and challenging students in their classes. Instructors often ask:

  • "What if students are disruptive?"
  • "What about students who always arrive late?"
  • "What if the same person is always first to answer my questions?"
  • "What if my class gets out of control?"
  • "What if I?m making a presentation and two students start to talk to each other?"
  • "What do I do when I ask a question and nobody answers?"

What You Will Learn...

Using ESF?s Challenging Learners Materials, you will learn how to:

  • Transform negative situations into positive outcomes.
  • Discover why some learners act the way they do.
  • Deal with unacceptable classroom behavior.
  • Meet with the learner in a one-to-one, friendly, non-threatening setting.
  • Listen to and dialogue with the learner to uncover the causes of the learner's behavior.
  • Deal successfully with three categories of learners and twelve different personalities:
  • Silent learners: shy, inattentive, and non-responsive
  • Difficult learners: overeager, victim, resistant, highly-emotional, antagonistic, and out-of-control
  • Special learners: latecomers, prejudiced, distressed

What You Will Do...

Specifically, using ESF?s Challenging Learners Materials, you will:

  • Use role plays, instructor and class member critiques, and individualized instruction to practice dealing successfully with the above types of challenging learners.
  • Be challenged to:
  • Bring out the best in each learner
  • Lead each learner to competency
  • Channel the energy, interests, and ideas of each learner toward successful training for all
  • Put the interests of your learners above your own, self-interest.

What You Will Receive...

The Challenging Learners Materials contain:

  • Four self-paced, self-instructional Workbooks:
  • Introduction to Challenging Learners
  • Getting Silent Learners to Respond
  • Channeling Difficult Learners' Energies and Emotions
  • Dealing with Special Learners
  • Skills-related Learner's Guide containing:
  • Skills Labs on each of the above topics
  • Role Plays for each type of Challenging Learner
  • Performance checklists which allow learners to transfer learned skills to actual job tasks

How to Use the Materials...

When using the Challenging Learners (CL) Materials on a self-study basis, you must practice the skills included in the Skills Lab of each module. When practicing these skills, it is best to videotape yourself in front of an audience whether the audience consists of co-workers, family, or friends.

Use the Performance Checklist that is included with each Skills Lab to critique yourself first. Then, ask each member of the audience to critique you, once again using the Performance Checklists provided in the Skills Lab. The most important rule for the critique session is to allow absolutely NO negatives in the review process. The only acceptable responses from yourself or participating members is constructive criticism, that is, what can you do to improve. The second rule is to keep each critique no more than one minute per person.

Be sure to videotape yourself at least three times. You will be astonished at the improvement in your skills after each presentation.

ESF ProTrainer Workshops Available

ESF offers WORKSHOPS at your site to train you how to become a Professional Trainer in all areas of your training job.

For those who have been using IDLS-ProTrainer 1 or Interactive Teaching Skills materials before our TaskOutliner software was available, we now conduct a one-day Workshop to teach you how to use our user-friendly, time-savingTaskOutliner software to create Task Analyses and Performance Checklists in conjunction with ESF's IDLS-ProTrainer 1 or Interactive Teaching Skills materials.

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