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4. Recommendations
4.1 More Time
Due to Easter holidays and the travel time requirements
of participants, the 5 days that were originally
planned for the TOT were cut to three days. Seven
to eight days is recommended, especially as there
were additional time needs to accomodate participant
limitations in English. All sessions needed further
development and elaboration to achieve participant
mastery of the skills and new knowledge.
4.2 Second Training Consultant
The planners for this consultation requested a team
of two trainers which was later cut to one trainer
during approval stages for the consultancy in Washington.
A second consultant trainer would have made a significant
difference in the effectiveness of the TOT in
at least the four areas outlined below:
A. A better assessment of the needs and limitations
of the participant group with more interviews of
participants prior to the start of the workshop
and the design of a "pre-test" instrument to be
administered during the first session.
B. The design of specific instruments (tests, checklists,
etc.) to provide relevant practice to
achieve mastery of a particular concept or
skill. For example: to distinguish behavioral
vs. non-behavioral objectives; record observations
of discussion leading skills.
C. The revision of hand-outs to simplify the English
anJ to make more specific to local circumstances.
D. The development and delivery of brief demonstrations
of various methods using content relevant to the
work of the participants.
4.3 Discussion Group Leadership Skills
This population had little experience with participation
in discussion groups and no experience with
thG leadership of them. It is the most critical
skill to functioning as an assistant trainer in
experience - based workshops, for purposes of processing
and applying new skills and knowledge acquired
in field or itructured classroom experiences. Other
content of a TOT should be sacrificed if necessary
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