7.2: Selecting a delivery approach

Table of Contents

1. Learning styles
2. Delivery approaches
   1. Delivery methods
   2. "Chalk and Talk"
   3. Demonstration
   4. Group Problem Solving
   5. Role Playing and Simulations
   6. Practical Activities
   7. Individualised Learning
   8. Videos and other media
   9. Choosing learning activities
3. Motivating learners

Group Problem Solving

Team working is one of the most highly prized skills in the workforce of today. Any training which involves group problem solving has the multiple advantage of:

• improving the learners team working skills
• developing the particular competences related to the training topic
• enhancing the core problems solving skills of the learners.

Problem solving activities need to be carefully structured by the trainer. A useful approach is to encourage the learners to adopt a process of Plan-Do-Review. This ensures that they progress to the stage of evaluating their problem solving strategy and learning from it: not just designing and implementing a strategy for solving the problem.

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