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US Resettlement: Domestic Service Provider Toolkit

Tools for CO Trainers

Training for the Non-Trainer: Tips and Tools (cross-posted in the Staff Training section)
This digest is designed for people who deliver orientation but may not have received training to do so, or for trainers who would simply like a refresher. The digest provides tips and tools for the conceptualization, design, and delivery of training sessions.

The digest is accompanied and expanded upon by four related documents. As such, the entire package is:

Training for the Non-Trainer: Tips and Tools

Adult Learning and Retention: Factors and Strategies

Methods in Training

Setting Up a Training Room


Soothing Tensions
 

Icebreakers: Discussion of the purposes for which icebreakers can be used and collection of some icebreaker activities on topics of "Getting to Know Each Other," "Teambuilding and Commonalities," "Energizing Through Movement," and "Grouping." [Cultural Orientation Resource Center]

New! U-Curve of Cultural Adjustment Images of people of various ethnic groups representing emotions commonly felt at different stages of cultural adjustment [Cultural Orientation Resource Center]

Needs Assessment Exercise (up to 30 mins.) [From CAL's Cultural Orientation for Refugees: A Handbook for U.S. Trainers; click here for more information or to purchase]

CO Lesson Design Template [Cultural Orientation Resource Center, adapted from CAL's Cultural Orientation for Refugees: A Handbook for U.S. Trainers; click here for more information or to purchase]

The Importance of Checking for Understanding: The Telephone Game [Provided by Jewish Family Service of San Diego, and the IOM Southeast Asia CO Program]

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