1. Seven
Principles
to
Deliver
Training
Effectively
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3. Seven Principles to Deliver
Training Effectively
1. The Principle of The Learning Specialist
2. The Principle of The Learner
3. The Principle of The Language
4. The Principle of The Lesson
5. The Principle of The Teaching Process
6. The Principle of The Learning Process
7. The Principle of Review and Application
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4. Principle 1 :
The Learning
Specialist
A learning specialist must
know the program,
lesson, subject, skill, or
truth to be taught.
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5. Rules to Apply for Principle 1
• Prepare each lesson by fresh study and
review.
• Illustrate new ideas, concepts, truths, and
facts in terms of the every­day experiences of
the learners.
• Discover the "natural order" of material or
information to be presented.
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6. Rules to Apply for Principle 1
• Whenever possible relate the material to the
lives of the learners
• Set aside a definite time for study for each
session or lesson, in advance of the
instruction.
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7. Rules to Apply for Principle 1
• Learning specialists should not limit themselves
to the training aids at hand
• It is important to remember that complete
mastery of just a few ideas is better than an
ineffective smattering of many
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8. Principle 2 :
The Learner
A learner must attend
with interest to the
program, lesson, or
subject.
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9. Rules to Apply for Principle 2
• Never begin a training session until the
attention (active) of the learners has been
secured.
• Pause whenever attention is interrupted or
lost; wait until it is completely regained
before you begin again.
• Never completely exhaust the attention of
the learners.
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10. Rules to Apply for Principle 2
• Appeal whenever possible to the personal
interests of the learners.
• Use a variety of instructional methods to
arouse the attention of the learners.
• Identify sources of distraction and reduce
them to a minimum.
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11. Rules to Apply for Principle 2
• Make the presentation as attractive as
possible, using illustrations, graphics, and
training aids.
• Use third-party stories, dialogue, and
analogies whenever possible to illustrate the
point.
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12. Rules to Apply for Principle 2
• Prepare before the session several thought-
provoking questions.
• Maintain appropriate eye contact with the
learners and use appropriate voice inflection
and body language
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13. Principle 3 :
The Language
The language used as a
medium between the learning
specialist and the learner must
be common to both
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14. Rules to Apply for Principle 3
• Use the simplest and fewest words that will
express the desired meaning.
• Study carefully and constantly the language
of the learners.
• Test the learners' understanding of the words
frequently to make certain that they are not
being incorrectly used.
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15. Rules to Apply for Principle 3
• Use short sentences of the simplest
construction.
• Use illustrations to help the learners
understand the meaning of words and
symbols.
• If the learners fail to understand, repeat the
idea or thought in other language, or use an
analogy or example.
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16. Rules to Apply for Principle 3
• If the learners fail to understand, repeat the
idea or thought in other language, or use an
analogy or example.
• Identify the terms, symbols, and language
that the learners are familiar with prior to the
session and adjust the program accordingly.
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17. Principle 4:
The Lesson
The information or skill to be
mastered must be explicable in
terms of information already
known by the learner — the
unknown must be explained by
means of the known.
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18. Rules to Apply for Principle 4
• Discover what the learners know of the
subject, topic, and material; this is the starting
point.
• Utilize the learners' knowledge and
experience.
• Relate every lesson—as much as possible—
to former lessons as well as to the
experiences of the learners.
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19. Rules to Apply for Principle 4
• Arrange the presentation so that each step of
the lesson leads easily and naturally to the
next.
• Use illustrations that the learners can identify
with.
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20. Rules to Apply for Principle 4
• Encourage the learners to make use of their
own knowledge.
• As much as possible, choose the problems
that you assign to the learners from their own
activities and interests.
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21. Principle 5 :
The Teaching
Process
The teaching process must be
arousing, using the learner's
mind to grasp the desired
thought or to master the
desired skill.
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22. Rules to Apply for Principle 5
• Excite the learners' interest in the subject,
lesson, and/or material through statement of
inquiry or thought-provoking questions.
• Consider it a principal responsibility to
awaken the minds of the learners and to not
rest until each learner demonstrates his or
her mental activity and involvement.
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23. Rules to Apply for Principle 5
• Place yourself frequently in the position of
the learners and join in their search for
additional information and knowledge.
• Allow learners time to sort out the material
and gain understanding.
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24. Rules to Apply for Principle 5
• Repress the desire to tell all you know or
think about the subject, lesson, or topic.
• Be dedicated to beginning each session in a
manner that stirs interests and activity
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25. Principle 6 :
The Learning
Process
The learning process must turn
one's own understanding of a
new idea or truth into an overt
habit that demonstrates the
new awareness.
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26. Rules to Apply for Principle 6
• Help the learners form a clear idea of the
work to be done.
• Ask the learners to express in words or in
writing the meaning of the session or lesson
as they understand it.
• Answer the questions of the learners in a
non-threatening manner.
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27. Rules to Apply for Principle 6
• Strive to make the learners self-directed and
independent investigators.
• Seek constantly to develop in learners a
profound regard for truth as something
noble and enduring
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28. Principle 7 :
Review and
Application
The evidence of individual
development must be reflected
through a reviewing, rethinking,
reproduction, and applying of the
material, information, truth, or skill
that has been communicated.
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29. Rules to Apply for Principle 7
• Realize that reviews are a part of the
instructional process.
• Establish a set time for review.
• Get into the habit of providing a review at the
completion of each lesson as well as after
each section or at the close of a topic or
subject.
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30. Rules to Apply for Principle 7
• Seek comprehensive and complete
groupings of material.
• Identify as many applications as possible.
• Demand that learners rethink material and
information into a personal understanding
and orientation
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31. Source of Reference:
Jerry Gillet and Seteven Eggland, Principles
of Human Resource Development, Perseus
Development
Books Group.
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