To Train the Trainer

“Training the trainer” means identifying an existing staff person, or several staff members, who have technology, expertise and teaching personal to train other staff members to use the technology to be applied. By training one key person to train others in the organization, you distribute the knowledge and create a repository of knowledge within the organization so that no one person carries all of the organization’s knowledge.

A train the trainer program could involve sending one staff member to an outside training class to learn about the technology, then teaching that staff member how to train other people on staff. It is important to train the trainer how to teach other people so that the information can be spread effectively. Effective train the trainer programs will teach trainers such skills as how to facilitate a meeting, how to deal with students who are having trouble, and how to teach effective note-taking.