Derrin also leads The Development Manager Ltd:
http://tdm.info
Click here to read more about The Development Manager's full range of Staff Training courses.
Derrin offers a wide, combinable range of one-day intensive training programmes in the following categories:
- Personal, Professional Development Courses
- Leadership and Management Development Courses
- Information Technology Skills Courses
- Trainer Skills Development Courses
- ESOL tutor skills courses
Practical support for training providers:
- e-Learning Design, Moodle Administration and Staff Training and Support
- Free "Libre" Open Source Software Installation, Hosting, Administration and Staff Training
- Tender Writing and Bid Team Capacity Building
- Staff Training and Development
- Knowledge Management
- ESOL Trainer Training for Practical, WBL Contexts
- Spanish Language Teaching and Translation
Derrin has a happy, confident training room presence and loves encouraging others to his share his passion and enthusiasm for the learning material he delivers.
For the last three years, Derrin has freelanced as a commercial trainer for Training for Tomorrow Ltd.
For the last three years, Derrin has freelanced as a commercial trainer for Training for Tomorrow Ltd.
Trainer Development Courses
Individual sessions, short programmes or longer-term courses available
Derrin has trained over 500 people to become trainers in variuous contexts. Derrin has a passion for training and loves sharing that passion, and his good practice ideas and techiques, with anyone else who shares his enthusiasm!!
Derrin delivers the following Trainer Development Courses:
All of these courses are designed to be delivered as a full one-day programme (4 x 1.5 hours) which is followed up by a consolidatory programme of online learning. Each of them, however, can also be condensed into a shorter delivery period OR combined with other courses from this and The Development Manager's other course categories (click the links in the right hand column) in order to extend into longer programmes of delivery.
Train the Trainer
This is a highly effective, introductory capacity-building programme for those who have to deliver training in face-to-face group settings.
Facilitating online learning with Moodle
It takes much more than teaching skills to know how to use the Moodle VLE to its maximum potential. This programme will serve as an introduction to some of the skills required for effective online learning facilitation.
Adult Learning Psychology
This session equips trainers with a detailed background understanding of adult learning psychology theories as well as a revitlised approach to adult learning facilitation.
Teaching for Understanding
This session introduces a cutting edge, dynamic approach to instructional design which ensures really effective learning really takes place.


