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   ITS Materials...

Interactive Teaching Skills Self-Instructional Materials contain ITS Workbooks & Learner's Guides:

  • Interactive Teaching Skills
  • Using Media Interactively
  • Conducting Interactive Skills Labs

Unit Price: $200

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Purchase the Complete ITS Self-Instructional Workshop in a Box:

  • ITS Workbooks & Learner's Guide
  • TaskOutliner
  • StyleDoc

Value: $1,000

Discount Price: $800.00

  Instructor Materials

Become certified to conduct the ITS Workshop. ITS 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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   ESF Products...

ESF offers workshops at your site to train you how to become Professional Trainers in all area of your training job:

Workshops

IDLS-ProTrainer 1
Training Needs Analysis
Interactive Teaching Skills
Developing Skills Labs
Working with Challenging Learners
Return on Investment (ROI)
Managing Your Training Department

Materials

IDLS-ProTrainer 1
Training Needs Analysis
Interactive Teaching Skills
Developing Skills Labs
Working with Challenging Learners
Return on Investment (ROI)
Managing Your Training Department

Software

TaskOutliner
StyleDoc

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Interactive Teaching Skills Materials

Introduction

The Interactive Teaching Skills (ITS) program 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). ITS is a competency-based program that enables the participant to use interactive instructional techniques (also known as "platform skills").

When you use the ITS 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.

 

What You Will Learn...

Specifically, through ESF's Interactive Teaching Skills materials, you will:

  • Use TaskOutliner and StyleDoc to develop an Interactive Instructor's Guide
  • Develop Interactive Viewgraphs or PowerPoint Presentation
  • Set up an interactive classroom:
  • Present yourself as approachable
  • Leave your personal problems at the door
  • Begin the class by:
  • Introducing yourself
  • Inviting learners to introduce themselves to the group
  • Stating course objectives
  • Mentioning points of business and logistics
  • Reviewing the agenda and schedule
  • Use interactive presentation techniques:
  • Invite learners to be interactive
  • Anticipate learner's needs
  • Put learners at ease
  • Use media interactively
  • Use Skills Labs Interactively
 

What You Will Do...

Specifically, using ESF's Interactive Teaching Skills materials, TaskOutliner and StyleDoc, you will:

  • Use TaskOutliner to develop a TaskOutline of all the information you want the learner to know related to skills that you want the learner to perform
  • Use StyleDoc to develop and format your Instructor's Guide and presentation materials (viewgraphs or PowerPoint presentation).
  • Use Interactive Presentation Techniques to:
  • Actively collect responses from learners
  • Provide positive feedback to learners' responses
  • Use Media Interactively including:
  • Computers, i.e., PowerPoint Presentations
  • Videotapes
  • Viewgraphs
  • Flipcharts
  • Conduct a Skills Labs to:
  • Conduct "hands-on" practice sessions
  • Use coaching skills
  • Use the Performance Checklist generated by TaskOutliner to evaluate how well the learners performed the requisite skills.
 

What You Will Receive...

The Interactive Teaching Skills materials consist of a series of Workbooks & Learner's Guides. ESF's recently revised and streamlined proprietary Interactive Teaching Skills materials include:

  • Self-paced Workbooks & Skills-related Learner's Guides:
  • Interactive Teaching Skills
  • Using Media Interactively
  • Conducting Interactive Skills Labs
  • Performance Checklists which allow learners to transfer learned skills to actual job tasks.
  • TaskOutliner:
  • Use ESF's user-friendly TaskOutliner software to develop your classroom presentation.
  • StyleDoc:
  • Use this fantastic series of Microsoft Word templates to assist you in formatting your custom-made viewgraphs or PowerPoint presentation and Instructor's Guide.

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 ITS before our TaskOutliner software was available, we now conduct a one-day Workshop to teach you how to use TaskOutliner to create Task Analyses using our user-friendly, time-saving TaskOutliner software in conjunction with ESF's Interactive Teaching Skills materials.

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