How do I love my learners? Let me count the ways?
On Valentine’s Day, let’s remember the principle that we treat every learner with total positive regard, and put it into practice at those challenging times!
Is there such a thing as a difficult learner??
Hmmm well, maybe occasionally you feel really challenged, but the skill of a trainer is to turn negative behaviours around into positive outcomes.
So go out there and love all your learners! (in the training sense!)
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As I predicted, my second Intermediate Food Safety group of the year passed their exam comfortably. You have been an exceptional group, relishing not just the training, activities and songs, but also the deeper discussions about the supervisors role. It has been a joy to be with you – thanks for the memories!
Yes, my second Intermediate group of 2019 take their exam today, and it’s still January!!! They are such lovely students, and very switched on – the exam should pose no problems, as I have taught well, and they have learned well!
Success! My first course of the new year, with 6 brilliant participants on the Intermediate (CIEH) Food Safety programme, concluded yesterday with the exam, and a clean sweep of passes. Congratulations to Adrian, Heather, Matthew, Paul, Stacey and Stephen. Its the first time in a long while that I have played two food safety songs with my guitar – and they wanted more!!!!!
But, there’s no rest for the trainer, as my next one starts on Thursday this week!
Anyway, alongside the trusted combination of PowerPoint, flipchart, mindmap exercises, the CIEH Food Safety card exercise, scented marker pens, and fluffy bacteria as old favourites, I now feature 3 video clips of handwashing training as demonstrated by my Grand-daughter Caitlin, (aged 3). Suffice it to say, while I deliver 20 hours of great training, Caitlin’s mere 3 minutes on camera get the best response!!! In the concluding clip she sang Happy Birthday (to get the 20 seconds timing) but decided to sing Happy Birthday to Jennifer (because she’s her friend in toddler’s class at day nursery!) Way to go Caitlin!
This is one of my all time favourite exercises – it always delivers fun, enjoyment, and serious discussion/disagreement about the in-house dress code! And as this is from an Intermediate Food Safety course, it will go on to be developed into a review of the personal hygiene policy, plus induction and ongoing training, and of course participative handwash training.
Mind you, it does make me question what kind of people are working in these kitchens????!!!
