8 Suggestions for trainers

If you use this Research Guide in training:

Generally

  • Distribute handouts (including this Research Guide) to trainees one or several days before your presentation, or distribute them at the end of the presentation.
  • Do not distribute handouts at the beginning of a presentation, otherwise trainees will read instead of listening to you.
  • Ask trainees not to take notes, but to pay full attention to the training activity. Assure them that your handouts (and this Research Guide) contain all relevant information.
  • Keep your training activities practical. Reduce theory to the minimum that is necessary to understand the practical exercises.
  • Use the questions on page 4 (or a selection of questions) for examinations (quizzes, periodical tests, and so on). Allow consultation of handouts and books during examinations.
  • Promote interaction of trainees. Allow questions, but do not deviate from the subject.
  • Respect the time allotted.


    • Specifically

  • Ask participants about their knowledge on introduction, diffusion and importance of cassava in their areas (10 minutes).
  • Present the content of this Research Guide using the study materials listed on page 3 (45 minutes). Discuss illustrations and tables with the help of overhead transparencies (make photocopies on overhead transparency sheets from the relevant pages of this Research Guide).
  • Organize visits to local production areas and markets to find out history and importance of cassava. Conduct visits and interviews in groups of 3-5 trainees. Use IITA Research Guide 36 as guidance (Rhoades 1996; see Bibliography) (½ day). Discuss the findings (1 hour).

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      Objectives, Study materials, Practicals
      Questions
       
      1 Initial introduction
      2 Central Africa
      3 West Africa
      4 East Africa
      5 Colonial and post-independence diffusion
      6 Conclusion and discussion
      7 Bibliography
      8 Suggestions for trainers
         
      Credits
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