The Seven Steps to a Trainers Introduction

The Seven Steps to an Introduction

There are seven very important and proven steps to an introduction that trainers and educators must accomplish in order to motivate learners. These steps must be accomplished whenever there is a new topic or course requiring an introduction.

Introduce Yourself to the Students

Put your name, title (perhaps also contact numbers) on the whiteboard or blackboard. Learners might not remember your name later in the day, or may have missed it when you said it. Learners may not know how to spell your name. This step can be shortened if this is not the first time you are teaching these learners; however, your information should ALWAYS be posted for the learners to see.

Establish Classroom Policies

We need to ALWAYS encourage questions from your learners, make sure that you relay that to your learners. Inform your learners how you want them to answer questions. Do you want them to raise their hand or write the answer on a sheet of paper? Establish snacking and drinking policies, smoking policies, classroom hours, dress requirements, extra study policies, and computer policies.

State the Topic you will be Teaching

State the topic verbatim from your lesson plan. Have the topic posted on the Whiteboard verbatim. If you do not have a Whiteboard in your classroom, design another means to display the topic name, for instance student handouts.

Read the Topic Learning Objectives Verbatim

Topic learning objective should not be taken lightly. This tells the learner what they are required to learn through the topic. It informs the learner what is going to be tested. Therefore topic learning objectives (TLOs) have to read verbatim. Substitute "you" in place of "The Trainee" or "the Learner" when reading the TLOs, it will be more personal for the learner.

Overview

Now is the time to summarize and put the TLOs into user friendly terms. If the topic has many TLOs, the instructor can summarize after reading some TLOs then continue to read the TLOs verbatim and summarize the remaining TLOs.

Create General Interest in the Topic