Course objectives:
This fundamental course shares a simple-to-use instructional design method. Learn how to apply the 4MAT design model to save time and create engaging learning experiences. Your courses will be interactive, entertaining and impactful.
- Identify the right learning outcomes
- Use a 4-step design model to create engaging learning
- Analyze training requests to identify the right content
- Work with Subject-Matter Experts to conceptualize content
- Design engaging activities that appeal to all learning styles
- Create meaningful learner dialogue
- Structure organized, engaging lecture
- Develop skill-based learner practice activities
- Build learner skill in self-assessment
- Link activity choice to clear learning outcomes
- Strategically sequence activities to flow and build learner skill
- Assess the impact and instructional soundness of a design
- Include post-training implementation strategies to reinforce learning
You will learn how to:
- A simple model for organizing your training design approach to accelerate design time
- How learning happens
- The different ways that people make meaning of new information
- The four key questions that must be addressed for learning to happen
- How to work backwards from clear, measurable learning outcomes
- How to balance your instructional design choices
- How to make sure learners get the “big picture”
- Why some learners check out and what to do about it
- How to structure learning that translates into real world results
- How to identify what’s missing from your training today that would take it from good to great
- What each style finds painful and successful
- Inventory of activities that “fit” into each step of the 4-part model
- 8 Opening Strategies that Always work
- How to make content meaningful and relevant to learners
- 7 ways to organize lecture to enhance retention
- How to structure interactives to engage full participation
- How to deliver content within the limits of memory
- Visual, auditory and kinesthetic activities that reinforce learning
- 14 Visual Organizers that increase learning retention
- How to build in real-world practice
- 4-step framework for coaching learner practice
- How to effectively use job aids
- How to design activities to assess if learners “got it”
- How to link activity choice to desired learner outcomes
- How to encourage learner self-assessment
- Interactive assessment activities for learners
- Activity structures to maximize the 3R’s-Repetition, Reinforcement and Relativity
- Closing strategies that gain learner commitment
- Concrete strategies for “pushing” learning out into the real world
- Creative ways to use social media and other e-tools to extend learning outside of the formal learning environment
- The four levels of assessment and how to address each on in your instructional design and delivery
Included in your tuition:
- Participant Workbook
- 4MAT® Learning Type Measure (LTM®)
- 4MAT® Training Design Kit, which includes:
- The Training Design Planning Guide
- 4MAT® Training Design Pad
- Training Strategy Checkers for assessing the quality of training steps
- 4MAT® 8-Step Model Checker for guiding training development
- Balance Assessment Checker for examining the balance between "on-the-way" and "out-of-the-gate" assessment
- Brain-Compatibility Checker for assessing the quality of right-mode teaching strategies
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Want more information about the 4MAT 4Design Course?
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