Section outline

  • Deliver training and manage the learning experience

    Training resources available in this section cover a wide range of topics regarding the delivery of training, including the important role of facilitation of learning, planning and organizing classroom and online events, and providing course guidance to participants. 


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    • Readings

    • Roles of Trainers in an active learning environment

      For trainers, the interplay between leading the training and listening and observing learners provides valuable insights about the support individual learners need. This resource explores factors that can affect the success of the support provided by trainers in their attempts to facilitate learning.

    • Some Guidelines for Facilitators

      As facilitators of learning, trainers should be able to help people learn deeply enough to become independently capable of acting and learning more. This resource presents some key elements of facilitation and provides some practical advice.

    • Facilitators Gym

      This activity asks you to make the many difficult decisions teachers and facilitators have to make when working with varied groups of students, particularly difficult in online learning environments.

    • Organising and Managing Training Events

      These guidelines are based on the understanding that successful training events depend not only on the quality of training provided but also on the planning that supports the delivery of those training events.

    • Templates

    • Checklist for Training Organisers

      Organising training events requires a lot of careful planning. This template provides a checklist of activities that are likely to be performed before, during and after the event. There is also space to add your own notes and activities that are specific to your event or institution.

    • Webinars Checklist

      Hosting webinars can provide great benefits in getting useful content out to your audience, but where do you start when organising this sort of live and interactive event? This checklist was collaboratively written by a group of trainers and technical support officers that were reflecting on this exact question.

    • Examples

    • Example of Online Course Orientation

      This document a course orientation used in the WMO Online Course for Trainers. It may provide some ideas for you regarding the kinds of information to include in a course orientation.

    • Example of Course Website Orientation

      Also from the WMO Online Course for Trainers, this document is an example of a more technical orientation on how to use the course website.

    • Example of a Guide to Learning Online

      Online learning may be new to many learners, and is always a challenge due to the independence involved and need for self-discipline. This guide can be used as an example of some of the useful information to provide.

    • Example of Course Assessment Guide (1)

      This document is an example of an assessment plan as presented to the participants of a course. It describes the multiple forms of assessment used and explains to participants the work they are begin asked to complete.

    • Example of Course Assessment Guide (2)

      This document is an example of an assessment plan as presented to the participants of a course. It describes the multiple forms of assessment used and explains to participants the work they are begin asked to complete.

    • Example of an Audio Introduction to Course Unit

      Podcasts, or audio segments, can personalize an introduction to a unit of study. This is one example of how they can be used and created with free tools.

    • Example of Course Summary

      Particularly in long courses, it can be important to provide a summary to aid recall and  help show how the course has fit together. It also makes a good take-away for participants.

    • Finding Training Resources in Meteorology and Hydrology Book

      If you need some raw resources to help develop your sequence, the resources here could provide them.