Step 1: Basic considerations

 •    With the help of the information (specific objectives, instructional activities, skill information, working steps, drawing of the exercise) set the objectives, describe your class in terms of previous knowledge and abilities, consider the resource needed/available.

 •    It is also very important to consider that the trainees have in their hands the skill information sheet, the specific objectives, the drawing of the exercise and the working steps.

 •    Regard especially the skill information sheet as learning aid. Allow them to use it and emphasise important information, add new ones and explain functional relationships.

 The trainees need your shop talk to relate the “What”, “How” and “Why” of the skill.

 

Step 2: Organise the content

 •    Set the key words, find the logical sequence and the teaching aids you need.

Step 3: Prepare the plan

 •   Sequence your subject matters, put key questions.

Match the teaching aids to the elements of the subject matter. Anticipate the trainee’s behaviour and consider how to ensure that the trainees have understood the talk.

 

Step 4: Prepare yourself

 •   Practice your talk on a colleague or on a tape recorder or on internal speech.

 

Step 5: Present the talk

•   Here are some basic points.

•   Position the trainees along side you. Do not face them

•   Make the trainee to do/to understand the job right first time

•   Wrong or bad habits or knowledge is hard to extinct

 

Step 6: Review your talk

Use the feedback information you have collected in order to improve this talk for the next time and your ability to develop future shop talks.