Trainer’s Guide

The Trainer’s Guide is a set of workshop activities to prepare field staff trainees to effectively facilitate the module’s learning sessions. Supervisor trainees also participate in the workshop activities so that they can effectively support and supervise field staff. 

The purpose, objectives, preparation/materials, time needed and steps for each workshop activity are clearly and completely detailed. Workshop maps, sample agendas, and a Table of Handouts, Flip Charts and Other Training Aids also assist the trainer(s) to prepare for and conduct the workshop.

Trainer’s Toolkit

The Trainer’s Toolkit is a collection of all handouts recommended for distribution to trainees during the Trainer’s Guide activities. The handouts are presented in chronological order for easy access during workshop preparation and quick reference during the workshop itself.

Supervision Tool for Observing Education Sessions

The Supervision Tool is a checklist that supervisors and other management staff can use to focus their observations and guide their immediate feedback to field staff on the quality of their delivery of the learning sessions.

Principles of Adult Learning and Facilitation Skills Primer

The Primer is a series of workshop activities to introduce trainees to the principles of adult learning and effective facilitation skills in order to improve their facilitation of the learning sessions.  The trainer(s) are encouraged to choose and include many of these activities, as appropriate, in the workshop.

Adaptation Guide

Each module’s learning sessions are “generic,” that is to say, not designed with any particular country or region in mind.  The Adaptation Guide is a pair of tools used by the trainer(s) and trainees, in advance of the workshop, to support adaptation of the generic learning sessions to the context of the implementing organization. 

The first tool, designed for the trainer, is a Discussion Guide for Interviewing Local Experts.  The information gathered during the interview(s) helps the trainer

• revise technical content and recommendations to reflect national policy;
• include all nationally promoted messages;
• use locally developed images (or other materials) where possible; and

• complement workshop activities with local statistics and resource information.

The second tool, designed for field staff trainees, is the Community Exploration Discussion Guide. It is recommended that trainees meet with typical group members prior to the workshop to discuss the education module’s topic. The Guide provides specific instructions for arranging the meetings, conducting the interviews and recording the information. During the workshop, trainees analyze and report the information and use it to

• change generic names in role-plays and stories to locally appropriate names;
• create locally suitable scenarios in role-plays, stories and games; and
• change common terms to reflect local usage.