Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
DTRA-0024
Organization's ID:
DNWS OP 101
Organization:
Defense Threat Reduction Agency/Defense Nuclear Weapons School
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
1 week (40 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Upper-Division Baccalaureate 3 Instructional Techniques
Description

Objective:

The Instructor Orientation Training Course (IOTC) is an unclassified five-day course of instruction that provides instructors with standard teaching methods, fundamental presentation skills, and current training techniques to deliver classroom instruction. Working from short practicums to increasingly longer ones, Instructors will demonstrate comprehension of teaching and learning models with multiple opportunities for feedback and improvement.

Learning Outcomes:

  • understand Adult Learning Theory
  • apply effective communication and questioning techniques
  • organize course material to appropriate audience levels (Bloom’s Taxonomy)
  • evaluate appropriate Instructional strategies and methods of instruction;
  • analyze appropriate formative and summative assessment techniques
  • employ proper classroom management techniques

General Topics:

  • Adult learning theory effective communications questioning techniques instructional strategies methods of instruction student assessment classroom management
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Presentations

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials