TRG 410 · Training and Instruction · Level 400 (Officer / Staff)
A Royal Army College course in building a course from a real need and keeping training to standard.
Course length: 10 hours, studied online and asynchronously at the student's own pace, together with any in-person practical instruction and assessment the course requires.
Foreword
An instructor teaches a lesson; a course designer builds the course, and a standards owner makes sure it keeps meaning something. This is the most senior course of the Training and Instruction speciality, and it asks a harder question than "how do I teach this?": given a real need in the Army, how do you design a course that meets it, prove that it works, and keep it to standard as doctrine, kit, and law change? It is the work that makes the whole College trustworthy.
The course teaches the systems approach to training, from analysing the need to evaluating the result; how to carry out a training needs analysis and write training objectives of performance, conditions, and standard; how to design a course and develop its materials to the College's template; how to validate that training meets the standard, internally and externally; how to write training objectives precisely, implement and run a course, design within the means of a small force using blended and asynchronous methods, and govern, accredit, and own a training standard; and how to evaluate and continuously improve a course so a qualification means the same thing over time. It is grounded in the recognised systems approach to training and in the College's own way of working.
A College is only as good as the courses it designs and the standards it keeps. This course builds the member who designs them well and guards the standard.
Who this course is for
This course is for officers, senior instructors, and those who will design courses or own training standards for the College. It assumes TRG 301, TRG 310, and TRG 320.
What this course covers
| Lesson | Title |
|---|---|
| 01 | Training as a System: the Approach |
| 02 | Analysing the Training Need |
| 03 | Designing the Course |
| 04 | Developing the Materials |
| 05 | Maintaining Training Standards |
| 06 | Writing Training Objectives and Outcomes |
| 07 | Implementing and Running the Course |
| 08 | Designing for a Small Force: Blended, Asynchronous, and Resource-Lean Training |
| 09 | Governance, Standards Authority, and Accreditation |
| 10 | Evaluating and Improving |
How this course fits the catalogue
TRG 410 completes the Training and Instruction speciality, above TRG 301, TRG 310, and TRG 320 (and alongside FLD 360 Physical Training Instructor). It draws on TRG 310 · Assessment and Course Supervision (the assessment plan), ADM 220 · Course Records and Qualification Tracking (what a qualification certifies), PME 210 · Basic Staff Duties and Written Orders (writing a course specification), and LDR 420 · Command Responsibility and Ethical Leadership (the integrity of the standard). It supports the governance of the whole College catalogue.
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