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Develop a detailed agenda your plan for the training session.
Develop a detailed agenda your plan for the training session.
A training session agenda should show the flow of the training . For each topic or “chunk” in your agenda, please briefly describe the learning activities that participants will be engaged in. Please provide enough detail to show how the objectives are being met.
Include each of the following components :
Opening Reflection Activity
Activities related to your objectives
Professional Action Plan Activity
Evaluation
Certificate
- Opening Reflection Activity
Include an opening reflection activity early in your session, before you start reviewing or digging into the content of the training.
Why? This helps participants to activate their own experiences and promotes connecting elements of new learning to previous learning. It also allows trainers to hear what participants are bringing to the session and tap into this expertise.
Opening reflection activities are opportunities to set the tone for participant engagement. Be creative in how you invite participants to think about what they already know. Start with open-ended prompts and combine with different approaches to engagement.
Opening Reflection Activity Ideas:
Opening Reflection Activity Ideas:
Reflect on a time when you worked with a child who had needs that other children in your care may not have had. How did you work with this child? What changes did you make to your learning environment, if any? Share one or two ideas in the chat.
Turn to the person next to you and describe the favorite parts of your learning environment that may be most supportive to children who may have special needs.
On a scale of 0 to 5, how familiar are you with the topic? Hold up your fingers, indicating your answer. Find someone who has a different answer, then share two things that you know about the topic or two things you would like to know.
Add a doodle to your table tent, representing your favorite type of learning experiences. Share the meaning with a partner.
2. Activities related to your objectives
2. Activities related to your objectives
Design activities to meet your stated learning goals, as communicated in the selected Set, learning objectives, and what is promoted in your title and description.
Set Two and Set Three sessions need to provide participants with increasing responsibility for their learning, building on their previous experience and knowledge, and engaging them more directly in original work. Move from presentation of content to asking participants to share what they already know (Set Two/Three) and engage them in critical analysis of original research to create a new work (Set Three).
Please show your teaching strategy and method. You do not need to explain or provide a rationale for choosing your content or teaching strategies.
Writing activity details, examples:
Writing activity details, examples:
Introduction to Active Supervision
Lecture and slides. Trainer will ask participants to share, by five finger voting, how familiar they are with Active Supervision strategies. Trainer will introduce the concept of Active Supervision and its six implementation strategies. (Activity from Set One Training)
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Measuring Implementation of Active Supervision Strategies Small group discussion. Participants will be invited to join small groups to respond to the following questions:
How do you currently assess your / your program’s implementation of child supervision strategies?
What do you do with your collected information / documentation?
What practices have you considered or would you like to use to assess your implementation of child supervision strategies?
What challenges will you have to address in your planning?
Groups report highlights of their discussion to the larger group. Trainer tracks new ideas and challenges on flip chart. (Activity from Set Two Training)
3. Professional Action Activity
3. Professional Action Activity
Professional Action Planning Activities invite participants to reflect on their learning and plan for applying new/changed ideas to their work / situation.
It is best practice for participants to decide for themselves what they will do.
Why? This activity is intended to help participants retain and transfer their learning by providing them a final opportunity to connect the session content to their unique situations.
Professional Action Activity Ideas:
Professional Action Activity Ideas:
Ask participants to plan one modification they would make to their contract based on what they learned in the class. (From a session on contracts)
Ask participants to make a list of materials and / or supports they would need to implement a project in their setting. (From a session on art)
Ask participants to identify what additional topics they will add to their employee handbook to meet legal and regulatory standards as employers. (From a session on employee handbooks)
There are creative ways to provide a professional action activity. Drawing, creative writing, making a commitment, pair-share, public statement (everyone is in a circle and takes turns sharing, or you could make it fun with a ball toss).
4. Training Session Evaluation
4. Training Session Evaluation
Each Oregon Registry Training Session must include an opportunity for participants to complete an anonymous Training Session Evaluation. The evaluation may be provided in a paper or online format. In the agenda, please describe how you are providing anonymous evaluations to participants.
Example:
Participants will be given a QR code for an anonymous online evaluation form.
An optional evaluation template is available here.
Sample Eval_ENG.docxIf using OCCD's template:
Make sure the title is at the top of the evaluation and matches the title of the training session exactly.
Add your name and the session objectives, before using it.
If using your own template:
Make sure the title is at the top of the evaluation and matches the title of the training session exactly.
It is good practice to use the training session objectives as a basis for the evaluation, giving participants the opportunity to rate their degree of achievement of each objective on a 5-point scale, from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest and 1 being the lowest.
5. Certificate
5. Certificate
You are required to offer a Training Session Certificate to the participants upon completion of the training, to support the participants with receiving credit for the training in ORO. In the agenda, please describe how participants will receive certificates after they complete the training.
Example:
Participants will be emailed their certificate (with their name on it) after the attendance is verified.
See "Training Certificate" for more information and certificate templates and ideas.
Activity Planning Worksheet.pdfActivity design ideas for each Set Level
Activity design ideas for each Set Level
Supporting informational worksheet (optional)
Last Updated: July 2026
If you want to make your training sessions more interactive, you can make the shift from lecture-based training to an active-based training.
If you want to make your training sessions more interactive, you can make the shift from lecture-based training to an active-based training.
Nearly every day, we see articles about the importance of active learning for adults. Adults, especially those who work with children, may be tired after a long day of caring for others. Active training improves learner retention and motivates learners to put what they learn into action in their programs. Research has shown that the amount of information retained by participants declines after ten minutes of lecture (Farley, Risko & Kingstone, 2013). So involve your participants more!
Possible training activities to get your participants more involved:
Possible training activities to get your participants more involved:
Role play
Poster gallery walk
Small group discussion
Interviews
Debate
Having the participants review and present the new information to their fellow peers
If you're unsure of what these entail, we suggest searching them on the internet or asking other trainers!
Agenda Development Guide Chart
Agenda Development Guide Chart
You can use this optional worksheet to plan for your topic, teaching method, activity, materials needed, and then finally connect your activities to your objective.
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