Another way of writing Information Sheets

Writing an Information Sheet when what you intend to do is ask your Trainee to read a book.

Many methods can be utilized in order to write your information sheet depending on how you intend to present your lessons/topics.  For this example, I've written an information sheet to inform the Trainee of what he/she should do for this training session. In this case, the trainee is required to read a reference book. 

Figure 1. Sample Information Sheet, click to download

For this particular example, the Trainee needs to read one of my available reference materials to continue his/her learning session.  Thus, the instructions to read the book.  

Since the trainee is required to read a topic, a self-check is required so that the Trainee can practice what he/she has just read. This instruction was also included in the Information Sheet, so that the Trainee will know what he/she need to do after reading the topic. For this example, the Trainee is to answer the self-check that follows. the photocopied topic that was attached to the CBLM. If for some reason the Trainee prefers to read the book itself, an instruction where the trainee can find the book was also given.

Figure 2. Sample Self Check, click to download

Worth noting with this sample is the activities' relationship to the stated Objectives in the Information sheet, which are the expectation from the Trainees to enumerate: 

1. general safety precautions; and
2. the seven basic precautions.

all of these can be answered only if the Trainee has read the documents as instructed in the Information Sheet. What follows after the self-check is the answer key that the Trainee can use to check if he/she was able to enumerate the requirements correctly.

This way of developing an information sheet is allowed provided that, you develop the self-check and that the self-check is directly related to the document that you ask your trainee to read.

A similar method can be used if what you want to do is to ask your Trainee to watch a video, view a presentation, read information form the Internet, etc.

just make sure that whatever it is that all the needed information is written in the information sheet so that the Trainee knows what to do to continue his/her session.

Hope this helps, my next topic will be writing your topics, images, and proper citation. 

Should you have more questions, feel free to comment below.

Cheers!