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Choosing Training Methods

Some of the important questions to ask ourselves to determine the type of

methods to use are:

 What are the learning objectives? Is it to influence or change thinking,

believing, feeling or doing?

 Who are the learners? Educational, cultural, motivational, future role,

experience status.

 How much time do we have?

 What other resources are available?

 How can active involvement by the participants be made certain?

Based on these curies, the following methods or combinations of them

can beused.

 Lecturing- the most common and easiest method but the least

efficient especially in addressing how to do ajob.

 Lecture and discussion-asking questions encourage participation. It gives

more opportunity to learn.

o Provision of textbooks/handouts.

o Learner presentations

o Demonstrations-essential tools of training in task learning

o Audiovisual support- flipcharts, posters, slides, models.

o Popular art forms-they are one of the most effective training

methods for many resources. These include dramas, role- plays,
poems, sings, games, puppets…

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