Title: Summary
Course: Level 3 - Health Education and Promotion > Section: Conduct training for model family

In this Study Session, you have learned that:
- Learning, educating and training are three inter-related key concepts:
  - Learning refers to a process resulting in some modification, relatively permanent, of the ways of thinking, feeling, and doing of the learner. It includes both concepts "education" and "training".
  - Education refers to a general theoretical knowledge, and this may or may not involve learning how to do any specific practical work (training), tasks or skills.
  - Training refers to a process of education in which a trainee is being taught a particular skill and will be expected to practice it until the required standard is reached.
- There are six characteristics of learning: unitary, social, self-active, purposive, transferable and creative
- Children and adult learning involves six steps:
  - First, observation.
  - Second, trying to use other sensing methods like listening, touching or tasting.
  - Third, asking "why?" "how?" when something happens.
  - Fourth, imitating or copying the same action saying, "Let me do it myself".
  - Fifth, repeating the action again and again.
  - Sixth, asking others to observe.
- There are certain basic principles that you have to follow for your training sessions. Therefore, while you are conducting training, you have to make sure that there is: readiness, exercise, effect, primacy, recency, intensity and freedom.
- There are various factors which affect your training. These include: physical factors (how people feel, their physical health, and their levels of fatigue at the time of learning, the quality of the food and drink they have consumed, their age, etc.), psychological factors (mental health problems or motivation), environmental factors (unpleasant sounds or noise, bad ventilation, poor illumination, overcrowding and inconvenient seating arrangements) and training methods and materials (the choice of methods and materials can affect the way of life of an individual / community)
- Model family training is a means of enabling and empowering selected family members with certain healthy behaviours or with some important health messages so that they can enable and teach the rest of other community members. Training model families is one of the Health Extension practitioner's important strategies, and is adapted from theories of mass communication/diffusion of innovation. Using criteria based on social and economic status with the community, the Health Extension practitioner selects individuals who are likely to be early adopters of new behavior
- There are three phases to arrange training sessions:
  - Preparation (pre-training) phase. In this phase you need to conduct training need assessment, identify aims of the training, state the need or the problem, identify trainees, know who the trainees are, identify the resources, determine or define areas of trainings (knowledge, belief, attitude and skill), determine the training methods, arrange the logistics and determine the method for evaluation.
  - Training phase. In this phase, you need to give trainings based on the trainings curriculum or guidelines for a model households or for any community health development agents, and the training phase must insure the opportunities for learning by doing and also creating necessary climate or environment in which learning can take place effectively.
  - Post-training phase. Evaluation will be done to determine the degree or amount of success with pre-determined training objective, and you carry out input, output, process and impact evaluation at the end of the training.