How To Be a Successful Technical Trainer: Core Skills for Instructor Certification - Softcover

Keys, Terrance; Zeff, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072130334 ISBN 13: 9780072130331

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000

Synopsis

This one-of-a-kind guidebook is designed to help you meet the need for competent trainers in the exploding technology sector. Follow instructional principles approved by the International Board of Standards for Training Performance. Learn to use questions, group dynamics, feedback, and other training tools effectively. Thoroughly addresses training styles and learning needs in 14 delineated principles.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

As an expert in your technical area, you may be indispensable to those around you. But, until you become a certified trainer, you won't earn the career or financial recognition you deserve. This one-of-a-kind guidebook is designed to help you meet the need for competent trainers in the exploding technology sector. Follow instructional principles approved by the International Board of Standards for Training Performance. In addition to providing step-by-step teaching assistance, and developing your career, this invaluable resource may also help you become a more informed technical expert!

-Apply clearly defined and illustrated principles to your technical training regimen
-Communicate effectively with learners of diverse background and experience
-Convey authority while maintaining your personal style
-Provide positive reinforcement and motivational incentives designed to reach all learners
-Synthesize course information, personalities, and instructional media
-Cultivate multiple training styles to meet individuated learning needs
-Design coaching and feedback strategies, including student evaluations
-Pace lessons appropriately to maximize information absorption
-Determine objectives, evaluate the audience, then deliver effective presentations
-Accommodate training certifications that recognize CTT, including Novel's CNI, Microsoft certifications, Adobe's ACE, Corel's CCI, and Lotus' CLI

About the Author:

Terrance Keys, CTT (New York, NY) is the Assistant Director of Instructional Support at SUNY Monroe Community College, where he oversees the Professional Development and Instructional Technologies/Distance Learning departments.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072130334
• ISBN 13: 9780072130331
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400