How to design a training curriculum

The training curriculum defines the content of the training course or workshop.

Here are the prerequisites for designing a training curriculum:

• You need to define the training goals.
• You need to define the training objectives.

Here are some guidelines to follow when you design a training curriculum:

• Consider the pretraining entrance level skills of the trainee candidates.

  Reason:

  Their skill level will determine to a large extent the content of the curriculum.

  Tip:	Many trainee candidates will probably need to improve their local language reading and writing skills.

• Allow adequate time for trainees to master the new material.

  Tip:	Trainee candidates with little experience in schools need more time to master new material.

• Whenever possible, include the trainees at the early stages of curriculum development.

  Tip:	Adult trainees appreciate the opportunity to have input in planning their training.

1. Select the content of the curriculum based on the goals and objectives you have defined.
2. Prioritize training topics.

   Tip:	These priorities will determine when and how you offer the training.

3. Incorporate the training topics into an hourly or daily schedule.
4. Decide what training exercises or methods to use.
5. Prepare a lesson plan for each hour or topic in the training course or workshop.

• Task module: How to design a training curriculum
• In task module: Planning a training activity
• In task module: Planning a training program
• In task module: Training literacy personnel, by Susan Malone, Angelika Marsch (contributor), Stephen L. Walter (contributor), Kenneth A. Boothe (editor), and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
• In task module: Developing an instructional program, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), Patricia M. Davis (contributor), Trudy K. Stewart (general editor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), and Adelle R. Walter (illustrator)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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