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Trainers Institute: At Home Edition 2020 Session Reviews
“I really enjoyed this training, probably my favorite since the pandemic hit. Thanks!“
“I could have listened another two hours.”
“Excellent training with ideas I can immediately use.”
Definition of Session Levels
Session Descriptions: Week One (May 3 – 7)
Monday, May 3: 9:30 am – 11:05 am EST
No More Boring Trainings
Erin Fullerman
Session Level: Initial
Price: $15.00 Training hours: 1.5
Discover how to integrate game elements to any learning program, offline or online, and engage users with fun training that gets the job done. This session will conclude with a 5-minute break and then a 30-minute debrief and action planning session with Training Coach April Brown. In order to receive credit, you must attend the full session.
Learning Outcomes:
💡 Evaluate 11 benefits and pitfalls of using games.
💡 Discuss 6 keys to make sure games add to training without distracting.
💡 Review 14 fun ways to assess learning or debrief activities.
Erin Fullerman
Training Consultant
Bob Pike Group
http://www.bobpikegroup.com
Erin attended her first Bob Pike Group (BPG) conference years ago and was immediately transformed as a trainer. The Instructor-Led Participant-Centered model took the “it’s not about me, it’s about you” idea to a new level. Ever since then, Erin has been passionate about transforming the classroom and virtual classroom into places learners want to participate in their own learning and have fun at the same time. Before joining BPG, Erin spent over a decade specializing in technical and online learning. She created and presented classroom training and online courses for major television programs, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and prestigious universities.
Monday, May 3: 2:30 pm – 4:05 pm EST
Interactive Cross-Training: Techniques that Work Live and Online
Erin Fullerman
Session Level: Initial
Price: $15.00 Training hours: 1.5
Whether your training is face-to-face (F2F) or live online, you can create an interactive dynamic that keeps people comin’ back for more. Join Erin and pick up easy techniques to get maximum engagement in any setting. Bob Pike Group clients consistently say our training is fun, even refreshing. Yours can be too! Discover how to integrate game elements to any learning program, offline or online, and engage users with fun training that gets the job done. This session will conclude with a 5-minute break and then a 30-minute debrief and action planning session with Training Coach April Brown. In order to receive credit, you must attend the full session.
Learning Outcomes:
💡 5 easy ways to put learners in charge of their training
💡 Techniques that enable participants to “do for themselves”
Erin Fullerman
Training Consultant
Bob Pike Group
http://www.bobpikegroup.com
Erin attended her first Bob Pike Group (BPG) conference years ago and was immediately transformed as a trainer. The Instructor-Led Participant-Centered model took the “it’s not about me, it’s about you” idea to a new level. Ever since then, Erin has been passionate about transforming the classroom and virtual classroom into places learners want to participate in their own learning and have fun at the same time. Before joining BPG, Erin spent over a decade specializing in technical and online learning. She created and presented classroom training and online courses for major television programs, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and prestigious universities.
Wednesday, May 5: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm EST
Win Participants Over, Gain Buy-in and Increase Your Impact with the Power of Your Stories
Raelene Ostberg
Session Level: Intermediate
Price: $20.00 Training hours: 2
Storytelling is a crucial component of connecting with your group and gaining the buy-in needed to facilitate learning and growth in others. Yet it can be tricky to identify which stories will best serve your purpose, when to incorporate the story, and how to tell that story impactfully (both online and in-person). Watch, analyze, and gain knowledge from this engaging live webinar presentation. View video examples of successful speakers telling their stories. Explore specific examples of stories used in the development and delivery of early childhood content. Consider which types of stories might work best for the topic you are passionate about. Identify the why, what, and how of telling your story that will keep participants open to your message and leave your audience with greater understanding and support for the ideas you just delivered.
Learning Outcomes:
💡 Identify types of stories that will enhance the delivery of the education you provide
💡 Label methods for telling stories during your training and coaching (online and in-person), that will increase your impact and gain buy-in from your participants.
Raelene Ostberg
Director
Thriving Together
https://www.thriving-together.com/
Raelene Ostberg is the Founder of Thriving Together, an organization dedicated to developing and delivering transformative, fun, and inspiring educational opportunities for early childhood educators and the trainers, coaches, and leaders who support them. She presents nationally to thousands of early childhood professionals each year. Participants love Raelene’s energy, enthusiasm, and theatrical storytelling that bring proven strategies to life. Raelene is dedicated to decreasing stress, enhancing joy, and bolstering the success of early childhood professionals in their critical work. Raelene is also a Mentor with the Childcare Aware Trainer Mentorship program, an Achieve Master Trainer, Licensed Parent Educator, Vlogger, and Coach. She obtained a B.A. in Theater and M.Ed. in Family Education from the University of Minnesota.
Friday, May 7: 9:30 am – 11:30 am EST
Yeah, But How Do You Do That Online?: Designing Online Professional Development Programs
Alicia Benben & Jennifer Pusateri
Session Level: Intermediate
Price: $20.00 Training hours: 2
Are you an experienced trainer who is struggling to adapt your in-person workshop to an online setting? Join University of Kentucky online Instructional Design consultants, Jennifer Pusateri and Alicia Benben, to discuss approaches and processes for translating your face-to-face content into an online format. In this session, we will explore best practices for engaging adult learners in the online space, discover simple ways to include interactive components in your online training and discuss how to ensure your training program delivers on its promises. Due to the interactive nature of this workshop, we highly recommend that participants use a device that allows for the simultaneous opening of multiple tabs and windows.
Learning Outcomes:
💡 Translate in-person training activities to online presentation options.
💡 Explore strategies for engaging adult learners in the online space.
💡 Utilize adult-learner instructional design principles to plan, organize, and deliver an online workshop.
Alicia Benben
Instructional Designer
University of Kentucky- Office of Teaching, Learning, and Academic Innovation
uky.edu/tlai/home
Alicia Benben is an Instructional Designer for UK Online, part of the office of Teaching, Learning, and Academic Innovation at the University of Kentucky. As an Instructional Designer, she enjoys working with faculty from a variety of disciplines on the design and development of programs and courses for online delivery, and on rethinking course content in various mediums to help students achieve their learning outcomes. A strong proponent of having a well-rounded instructional toolkit, Alicia is passionate about learning new tools and technologies that may aid in the classroom experience. Prior to joining the University of Kentucky, Alicia spent more than 10 years in the equine industry in both hands-on and higher education roles, including as an Assistant Professor in Equine Studies at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. Alicia holds a Master’s in Instructional Systems Design at the University of Kentucky and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Equine Business Management Specialization, from Cazenovia College.
Jennifer Pusateri
Universal Design Consultant
Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching
www.uky.edu/celt/
Jennifer Pusateri comes to the University of Kentucky from the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE), where she served as an education consultant and specialist in differentiated learning and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). During the 2017-2018 school year, she created and implemented a year-long UDL pilot program where she presented regular training and instructional coaching to a cohort of eight middle school teachers. Prior to her work at KDE, Jennifer taught at a nationally-recognized school for students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) in Louisville, Kentucky where she implemented the UDL framework with students in grades K-8. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Kentucky where she plans to focus her research on the impact of universally-designed instruction on students with ADHD.
Session Descriptions: Week Two (May 10 – 14)
Tuesday, May 11: 9:30 am – 11:30 am EST
For the Love of Children! Why Adult Development Matters
Susan MacDonald
Session Level: Intermediate
Price: $20.00 Training hours: 2
You’ve probably experienced this: frustration builds, teacher turnover rises, staff meetings become stagnant, and negativity creeps into the school culture. The solution? Explore new ways to inspire and motivate teachers to engage in their own professional growth. During this powerful presentation, Susan will give you an exclusive peek into her newest book, Inspiring Professional Growth, and teach you innovative ways to • Be deliberate and intentional in establishing a growth culture • Use strength-based strategies to support ongoing professional growth • Build collaboration among even the most challenging individuals and teams • Create impactful and achievable goals to facilitate professional accountability and sustainable change. You will leave Susan’s session energized with new strategies, easy to use tips, reflective exercises, and resources to start making the changes necessary to develop programs where children and teachers grow and develop!
Learning Outcomes:
💡 Identify three key benefits of utilizing new strategies to support the ongoing professional development of the teachers in their program
💡 Enhance their ability to use new strategies to positively influence the growth culture of their organization
💡 Develop their capacity to make sustainable changes to their system for supporting the professional growth of teachers
Susan McDonald
Professional Speaker, Coach, Author
Inspiring New Perspectives
inspiringnewperspectives.com
Susan MacDonald is passionate about inspiring positive change in the early childhood field. Her expertise is reflected in her professional speaking, coaching, and books (Inspiring Early Childhood Leadership and Inspiring Professional Growth). Susan is the founder of Inspiring New Perspectives, a consultancy focused on empowering educators and school leaders to create programs that deeply respect and nurture the possibilities that lie within each child, parent, and teacher. Susan has been developing and delivering inspirational courses and workshops for over 25 years. Her background includes director of a Reggio-inspired preschool program, adjunct faculty at Lesley University and Wheelock College, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts licensing supervisor. Susan holds a Master’s degree in Instructional Design and several professional coaching certifications. She is the past president of the Boston Area Reggio Inspired Network and past vice president of the Massachusetts Association for the Education of Young Children.
Tuesday, May 11: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST
Now What? A Conversation on Bias and Impact
Colene Elridge
Session Level: Intermediate
Price: $20.00 Training hours: 2
The definition of implicit bias is as follows:
The unconscious attitudes, stereotypes, and unintentional actions (positive or negative) towards members of a group merely because of their membership in that group. These associations develop over the course of a lifetime beginning at a very early age through exposure to direct and indirect messages. When people are acting out of their implicit bias, they are not even aware that their actions are biased. In fact, those biases may be in direct conflict with a person’s explicit beliefs and values. That’s what makes it so challenging to see the difference between what you believe and your behavior.
This engaging conversation will review implicit bias, discuss how to become more aware of your own bias, how your bias can impact the work you do and real and tangible ways to be aware of your bias and remove them. It’s not always an easy conversation, but it is necessary to move forward.
Learning Outcomes:
💡 Review of implicit bias and how it impacts our perspective.
💡 Understanding of individual roles in creating more inclusive cultures.
Colene Eldridge
CEO
Be More Consulting
BeMoreTransform.com
Colene Elridge’s, (aka Coach Colene) decade-plus of HR experience, led to her being known as “the fixer”- she’s called to help organizations and leaders create better workplaces, productive teams, and aligned results. Her career in government focused on Affirmative Action, EEO, and Diversity. She was a successful investigator of harassment and discrimination complaints and implemented strategies that resulted in more diverse and inclusive workplaces. She is the CEO of Be More Consulting, a boutique agency designed to support organizations in creating cultures of inclusion, and developing women leaders. She has a degree in Cultural Anthropology from Transylvania University and an MBA from Sullivan University.
Thursday, May 13: 9:30 am – 11:30 am EST
Remembered, Not Forgotten: Using Brain-Based Teaching Strategies that Ensure Participants Remember What You Teach
Nicki Patton Rowe
Session Level: Intermediate
Price: $30.00 Training hours: 3
Designed for ECE trainers and/or instructors teaching CDA or ECE college courses, this interactive session will explore brain-based instructional strategies that help participants remember what you taught them. New insights into how memories are encoded and retrieved dictate the use of new and modified instructional strategies that lead to better retention and more complex mastery. During this session, participants will: 1) learn about and experience instructional strategies that support 3 key memory processes (attention, elaboration, retrieval); 2) discuss how commonly used training strategies can lead to an illusion of mastery; 3) describe the importance of effortful retrieval, spaced learning and feedback as well as ways to incorporate these strategies into trainings/courses; and 4) brainstorm ways they can incorporate new strategies into their own trainings/courses. This session includes a 2 hour webinar, and a pre-assignment. In order to receive credit, you must attend the webinar and complete the pre-assignment.
Learning Outcomes:
💡 Explain how the brain processes information and constructs knowledge and the implications for instructional design
💡 Select instructional strategies that support 3 key memory processes – attention, elaboration, and retrieval
💡 Describe the importance of effortful retrieval, spaced learning and feedback and ways to incorporate these strategies into trainings/courses
Nicki Patton Rowe
ECE Trainer/Consultant
Brain-Based Learning Solutions
Nicki Patton Rowe is passionate about providing and promoting effective training/learning that results in application in the ECE classroom. For 30+ years, her work has focused on training ECE staff (child care, Head Start, public preschool), developing instructional materials for organizations, and facilitating train-the-trainer programs.
Sharing
This past year has been tough for all of us and has highlighted the importance of self-care. Sometimes the little things can bring us joy, spark a happy memory or make us smile. We can all use a little self-care and a smile. Throughout the Institute we would like for trainers to share photos that show what makes them happy. It can be recent or from years ago. Related to training or not related to training. Share a note or leave the photo to speak for itself. These photos will be shared on our private Facebook Group. Begin collecting now and we will announce when it is time to share.
Ways to Connect!
Networking and interacting with each other during the Trainers Institute is one of the highlights for trainers and training coaches. At the 2021 Trainers Institute, we will be hosting two different networking opportunities. More details and information about how to register will be sent closer to the event. There will be no charge for these events and they are not approved for how to train other adults or other hours. Contact the training coach in your area for additional questions.
🔵 Crisis to Opportunity: Practicing a Positive Mindset
Date: 5/4/2021
Time: 10:00 am EST
🔵 And We’re Off! Setting Goals for the Upcoming Year
Date: 5/14/2021
Time: 10:00 am EST
📌 The Institute has been approved by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to meet a portion of the KY Early Care and Education Trainer’s Credential renewal requirement for how to train other adults and other clock hours.