TEACHING POLICE OFFICERS

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TEACHING POLICE OFFICERS
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Preview

• Adult Learning Principles
• How Students Learn
• Your Presentation
• You as a Presenter
• Dealing with Distractions

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Adult Learning Principles

• What are some of the considerations when
  teaching Children vs. Adults ?

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Children vs Adult

• Children
• Rely on others to decide what should be learned

• Adults
• Decide for themselves what is important to be
  learned

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Children vs Adult

• Children
• Accept the information given at face value

• Adults
• Need to validate the information based on
  their beliefs and values

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Children vs Adult

• Children
• Expect what they are learning to be useful in
  their long-term future

• Adults
• Expect what they area learning to be immediately
  useful

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Children vs Adult

• Children
• Have little or no experience upon which to draw,
  they are relatively Blank Slates

• Adults
• Have substantial experience upon which to draw.
  May have fixed view points

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Children vs Adult

• Children
• Little ability to serve as knowledgeable
  resource to teacher or fellow classmates

• Adults
• Significant ability to serve as a knowledgeable
  resource to the trainer and fellow learners

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Learning Domains

• Cognitive
• Affective
• Psychomotor

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Cognitive Learning Domain

• Includes all of the intellectual processes
• recalling of definitions
• terms
• names
• dates
• comprehension of ideas
• analysis of ideas
• Blooms Taxonomy of learning

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Affective Learning Domain

• Are emotional responses rather than intellectual
  ones.
• values
• beliefs
• attitudes
• emotions
• motivations

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Psychomotor Learning Domain

• Measures physical abilities and skills
• report writing
• mechanics of arrest
• emergency vehicle operations
• swimming

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Receiving your Message

• Every member of your audience interprets your
  presentation differently based upon their
  previous learning experience.
• you must listen and interact with your audience
  to determine how they are interpreting your
  presentation.

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Receiving your Message

• 10 hearing
• 30 seeing
• 70 hearing and seeing
• 90 hearing, seeing, doing

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The Presentation
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Techniques for a Good Presentation

• Break the presentation into two parts
• Organization of materials
• 2. Delivery skills

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Organization of Materials

• Research topic
• Create an outline
• Expand main topics into presentation
• Choose visual aids and facilitation techniques to
  enhance

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Organization of Materials

• Break the presentation into 3 parts
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Body
• 3. Conclusion

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Introduction

• Credibility Statement

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Introduction

• WIIFM
• (what's in it for me)
• In the first minute of your presentation,
  members of the audience will decide if they will
  continue to listen.

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Introduction

• Attention Grabber
• Question
• Story
• Statistic
• Photo

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Introduction

• Preview the main points or objectives of the
  presentation.

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Introduction

• Get the audience involved so they contribute to
  the training and have ownership.
• List additional items to cover

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Body of the Presentation

• Conduct presentation
• Add visual aids
• Incorporate facilitation techniques

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Conclusion

• Summarize
• Check for understanding
• Review objectives

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Group Exercise

• During a presentation, list two things a
  presenter can do to
• 1. Keep your attention.
• 2. Loose your attention

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Delivery Skills

• You as a presenter
• Professionalism

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Delivery Skills

• Organization of information
• Practice your presentation

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Delivery Skills

• Eye contact
• Voice projection

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Delivery Skills

• Suppression of distracting mannerisms
• Asking questions

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Delivery Skills

• Varied facilitation techniques
• Movement

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Dealing with Distractions

• Classroom set up
• Handouts
• Visual Aids

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Dealing with Distractions

• Breaks
• Cell phones
• Participants

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Summary

• Adult Learning Principles
• How Students Learn
• Your Presentation
• You as a Presenter
• Dealing with Distractions