Essential Instructional Skills for Professional Driver Trainers

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Essential Instructional Skills for Professional
Driver Trainers

• UNIT 3 Learning Objectives

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Lesson Objectives

• Youll be able to
• Analyze a job for training needs
• Write clear instructional objectives
• Identify the three major types of objectives and
  give examples of each

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Task Analysis

• The blueprint for training
• Provides effective measurement of performance of
  every aspect of a particular job
• Sets expectations for the employee and shows
  where performance can be improved
• Areas for improvement create the goals for the
  training program

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Task Analysis Includes

• Job title
• Major tasks of the job
• Sub-tasks
• Qualitative standards
• Quantitative standards
• Skills and educational requirements

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Task Analysis Includes (Contd)

• Materials and instruments needed
• Time-frames, deadlines
• Limitations anticipated and to be overcome
• Resources
• Preferred methods
• Other considerations

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Task Analysis Provides

• Efficient measures of production
• Accurate indicators of training needs
• Instruments for forecasting future production and
  needs
• Sets expectations for each employee
• Opportunities for employees to think about their
  job

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Task Analysis Provides (Contd)

• Fair methods of evaluating performance
• Simple ways of documenting reports
• Handy devices for filling vacancies
• Elimination of buck-passing
• Writing of instructional objectives

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Job Safety Analysis (JSA)

• A written procedure designed to review job
  methods, uncover hazards, and recommend safe job
  procedures

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4 Steps in Developing the JSA

• 1. Selecting the job
• 2. Breaking down the job into a sequence of steps
• 3. Identifying potential hazards of each step
• 4. Recommending safe job procedures

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The JSA Process Includes

• A listing of how the person performs the job one
  step at a time
• A listing of potential hazards for each job step
• What the person must do to avoid the hazard or
  accident

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The JSA Process Includes (Contd)

• A series of reviews by the operator, supervisor,
  and other operators plus supervisors with similar
  jobs
• Specific recommendations for performing the job
  safely

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Training and the JSA

• The list of recommendations for performing the
  job safely form a set of goals for training
  sessions to be held
• Problems to be resolved through training may be
  ranked in sequence based on
• potential hazard
• liability
• productivity or
• greatest cost

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Performance Objective

• An objective is the desired outcome of a learning
  situation, stated in terms of observable behavior
  of the learner
• The observable behavior is the exact performance
  that the learner is able to display as a result
  of a particular training process

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Preparing Performance Objectives

• Decide upon the goals to reach at the end of the
  program
• Select procedures, content and methods that are
  relevant to the objective
• Measure or evaluate the trainees performance
  according to the objectives or goals originally
  selected

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4 Parts of an Objective

• 1. Learning
• 2. Behavior
• 3. Conditions
• 4. Performance level

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Examples of Objectives

• GOOD The trainee will be able to correctly
  convert ten decimal numbers into the binary
  system in one minute.
• BAD The trainer will lecture on the number
  system.
• GOOD The trainee will be able to compose one
  business letter every 15 minutes, with no
  grammatical errors.
• BAD The 20 minute video will teach How to
  Compose Better Letters.

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Instructional Objectives

• Tell both teacher and examiners what is to be
  learned
• Give directions to both teacher and students
• Give the teacher a specific target

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Statements of Objectives

• Prepared statements of objectives are crucial to
  the success of training programs
• When objectives are clear, the chances of
  misunderstanding are greatly reduced

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3 Types of Objectives

• Knowledge
• Attitudes
• Skills

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Knowledge Objectives

• Acquire knowledge
• Comprehend
• Apply
• Analyze or
• Evaluate

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Attitude Objectives

• Values
• Beliefs
• Appreciations
• Interests

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Skills Objectives

• Application of knowledge and attitudes through
  behavior

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Measure of a Good Objective

• If you provide another teacher with an objective,
  and he or she then teaches students to perform in
  a manner that you agree is consistent with what
  you had in mind, then you have effectively
  communicated your objective.

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Wording of Objectives

• The best statement of objective is one that
  excludes the greatest number of alternatives to
  your goal.

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Words Open to Many Interpretations

• to know
• to appreciate
• to grasp the significance of
• to enjoy
• to believe
• to have faith in
• to understand

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Words Open to Fewer Interpretations

• to write
• to recite
• to identify
• to differentiate
• to solve
• to construct
• to list
• to compare
• to contrast