Teaching

This section covers all that trainers need to know when teaching Plone Trainings.

Trainers should read Building and Checking the Quality of Documentation. These documents help trainers prepare for a successful training experience.

Using the documentation for a training

Feel free to organize a training yourself. Please be so kind to contribute any bug fixes or enhancements you made to the documentation for your training: Contributing to Plone Training

License

The Mastering Plone Training is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Available documentation builds

See Available documentation builds.

How To Give Technical Trainings

Warning

WORK IN PROGRESS

This chapter will likely only interest you if you want to give a (Plone) technical training, it does not contain any material on Plone itself.

It's not specifically written for Plone but could be useful in giving any technical training. Hopefully it will support you for your first Plone educational experience in front of the room.

It contains feedback and 'lessons learned' from previous Plone trainings and personal experience.

• 1. Training theory: education, how people learn and process information
  • Introduction
  • Learning Styles and the Trainer
  • Try to teach one thing at a time
  • Attention Span
  • The more you know, the less you know
• 2. Before the training: Create material, invite trainees, preparation
  • Who do you want to give a training to
  • Training information
  • Show it all or practice the basics
  • Group size, number of trainers
  • Contact your students before the training
  • Re-use and improve the material that is already available
  • Verify the training location and facilities
  • Prepare for the worst
• 3. During training days: what to expect, do's and don'ts
  • Structure of your training day
• 4. After the training: Aftercare, keep in touch, learn, improve