The development of competence is the desired goal of all training and teaching. In CFAL objectives based training, you learn how to create a roadmap to competence for your learners.
Move Beyond Information Recitation to Transform Knowledge into Competence
Reciting information is not enough to develop competence in students. Showing a video is interesting but results in competent performance only when the learner has the knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes to integrate what they have viewed with their own experience.
Competency based Facilitators of Adult Learning develop the ability to analyze what they are teaching and present components in a way that allows learners to build their own skills or competencies.
Tailor Training for Your Teaching Goals and Bring Your Vision to Live
CFAL is customized so that during this course you actually work on what you are or will be teaching in real life – whether in your profession or one of your hobbies. Do you dream about standing in front of a room full of people at a conference? Giving a community talk at your local library? Providing training for the staff at your business? Conducting a Zoom workshop? Teaching-Coaching one-on-one? Bring your ideas and dreams to CFAL and let us help you create and facilitate meaningful learning experiences beyond typical lectures and discussions.
Learn the Secrets of Learner-focused, Sequential Objectives and Learning Experiences
Competency in any area is built in steps, from simple to complex. Knowing the steps and how to present them using learner focused objectives and active learning experiences is the secret of sharing your expertise with others.
Complete Your Course Design with One-on-One Expert Guidance.
CFAL course design may be looked at as a “plug and play”. You “plug” your content, your expertise into a system of education that is designed to develop your own confidence and competence as well as in those you teach. Along the way you interact with an educational expert 7 times to guide your way.
From Zoom to Conference Rooms: Confidently Teach Anywhere with CFAL
When you have completed CFAL you have a complete design for the course or class or workshop you intend to conduct. If your course is through Zoom, you’ve got it! Or by Zoom and live audience, you can handle it because you have planned what you are doing and how you are doing it. Presenting to 500 people, no problem. Teaching a group of 20 at your local library, you know what to do.
CFAL is a Process Course
You learn a process of education that you use over and over again. You develop the reputation of being a “natural teacher” because you have integrated this process in everything you do. Yes there are natural teachers who by their strong empathy and intuition know just what to do and when to do it. Yet if you ask them how they know how to teach they will tell you that they learned the hard way, by trial and error. Or they will tell you about the train the trainer workshop that turned their view of teaching around. Or how, as in my case, they pursued higher education because they wanted to know everything they could about this process of teaching and learning.
I look forward to see the lightbulbs go off over your heads as you “get it” and discover a different way of looking at teaching and learning than you had before. What you teach after taking this course may not change, but how you teach it will. You will have more enjoyment, more time, better rapport with others as you watch them grow in confidence and competence.
To your success!
Jill Henry, EdD
