IDLS-ProTrainer 1 Workshop...

Introduction

ESF developed the Instructional Development Learning System Workshop and Materials in 1970. The very first workshop we conducted, held in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., was for executives and trainers from EXXON who wanted to redo their Refinery Training Program. EXXON's program, still in use in recent years, became known as Skills Training Improvement Program (STIP).

This workshop and its corresponding instructional materials quickly became known as IDLS. In the 1980's, when we developed other materials in the ProTrainer series, the course became known as IDLS-ProTrainer 1. It is based on a systems approach to developing training materials.

During the past decades, IDLS has been revised every few years to incorporate all the shortcuts and insights gained from conducting the workshop thousands of times. What was initially a two-week program is now reduced to a 3-5 day workshop, We have also listened to our clients' needs and have integrated many of their excellent suggestions.

IDLS has been used by ESF's Fortune 500 clients all over the world for over thirty-five years.

The IDLS workshop is one of the steps in ESF's process of becoming a professional trainer, hence the name "ProTrainer" which is ESF's Total Training Process (ESF's ISD Model).

During ESF's competency-based IDLS Workshop, you will learn a process that will enable you to perform tasks related to each step of the IDLS Process. Using documentation you bring to the workshop and working within a small group (no larger than three to four participants), you will:

• Design a customized Task Analysis
• Use ESF's user-friendly software, TaskOutliner, to develop a Job Task Analysis to identify what the learner needs to KNOW and PERFORM on the job.
• Develop Criterion Tests and Performance Measures
• Use the Job Task Analysis in conjunction with ESF's StyleDoc Templates to develop Performance Measures.

• Develop Inventory Questions (Pre Inventory, Progress Review, and Post Inventory) to measure Knowledge Skills needed to perform the job.

• Develop Performance Checklists automatically from TaskOutliner. These Checklists test whether your learners can perform the required job.
• Develop Interactive Instructional Materials
• Develop hands-on Skills Labs
• Develop self-paced, self-instructional, competency-based, learner-oriented Workbooks, Learner's Guide using the Job Task Analysis and Performance Measures developed in the previous steps.
• Use ESF's StyleDoc Template to make the process fast and easy.
• Validate your interactive instructional materials
• Using ESF's Item Analysis Process (an item-by-item quantitative analysis of your workbook) to determine whether your materials actually produce the results you desire. If they don't, you will know why immediately and revise the materials accordingly. This final step is designed to guarantee learner success and ensure quality performance.

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