Course Objective & Scope
Deep subject-matter experts often default to packing everything they know onto slides and lecturing; yet adults learn by connecting new ideas to prior experience and practising actively. This programme covers Malcolm Knowles' adult learning (andragogy) principles, David Kolb's experiential learning cycle, Gagne's events of instruction, interactive session design and classroom facilitation skills across in-person and virtual settings.
Participants redesign a module from their own domain, deliver a live micro-teaching segment during the programme, receive structured observer feedback and leave with a complete facilitator guide.
Who Should Attend?
- Internal trainers teaching in corporate academies and capability programmes
- Subject-matter experts (SMEs) transferring technical or functional know-how to colleagues
- Team leads and specialists delivering onboarding, product, process or compliance training
- L&D and HR professionals building and coaching an internal trainer pool
Key Takeaways
- Replace slide-heavy lectures with modules built around Kolb's experiential cycle (experience, reflect, conceptualise, apply)
- Open sessions with hooks that establish relevance, psychological safety and clear outcomes
- Build interaction loops every 10–15 minutes using questions, mini-cases, pair work and hands-on tasks
- Handle challenging classroom moments—tangents, pushback, silence or mixed skill levels—smoothly
- Produce a timeboxed facilitator guide and refine delivery through observed micro-teaching
Curriculum
How Adults Learn: Andragogy and Cognitive Load
- Knowles' principles: self-direction, prior experience, immediate relevance and problem orientation
- Overcoming the curse of knowledge and preventing cognitive overload
Experiential Session Architecture: Kolb and Gagne
- Starting with a concrete challenge or experience before introducing theory
- Hooking attention, activating prior knowledge, guided practice and job transfer
- Building a timeboxed facilitator run-of-show
Visual Aids, Cases and Interaction Design
- Replacing text-dense slides with visual anchors, worksheets and checklists
- Questioning techniques, group exercises and leading effective debriefs
Facilitator Presence and Managing Difficult Classroom Dynamics
- Pacing, voice, body language and energy in physical and virtual rooms
- Handling tough questions, sceptical participants and time overruns
Micro-Teaching Practicum and Structured Debrief
- Delivering a live segment on the participant's own subject matter
- Rubric-based peer and instructor feedback with personal action steps
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