ADIDaS Approach

Marilou F. Coloma
Facilitator
Next to figuring out your individual Topics, overall session
agenda planning is the probably the most important activity you
can spend time on before you get into the classroom. Since
many events will require trainers to tweak agendas based on
unknown or unforeseen circumstances, thoughtful and thorough
pre-event preparation will help you make last-minute
adjustments, especially if you’re prepared for a second set of
potential training sessions.
 A.D.I.D.S
The assumption behind the approach to Adult Learning is that learning
and awareness-raising happens in stages, and we cannot expect a person
to learn everything about an issue in one go, or in one lecture.  refers to
each of Activity & Discussion, Input, Deepening, and Synthesis
as Session, or ADIDS, Elements, or the individual stages of a session
covering a specific Topic. Each Element fulfills a distinct purpose within
a session that is critical to clearly articulating the concepts and
fundamentals of a Topic.
Activity

The session begins with an activity that is

connected to the topic of the session. This is
meant to introduce the topic to the
participants using interactive exercises.
Trainers design this beforehand to illustrate
some of the issues that they want the
participants to start thinking about.
Discussion

In this part of your session, everyone talks about

what they thought of the activity they just
completed. The trainer should prepare questions to
guide the activity along and get participants
thinking.
Input

This is usually the lecture part of the session,

where the trainer presents on issues, sub-topics and
more advanced concepts related to the focus of the
session.
Deepening
In technical training, this is usually the hands-on
segment of a session, where participants have the
opportunity to setup and begin using a particular tool
or application, or practice a skill or habit. The trainer
may frequently be facilitating a setup or
configuration walkthrough, answering questions
along the way, with a co-trainer on-call for one-on-
one assistance to individual trainees as needed
Synthesis
A good training habit is to always
summarize the session - the Synthesis
provides for just such an opportunity,
to review the session’s content and
address any remaining questions or
doubts
Guide Questions for
Trainers Preparing
ADIDS Sessions
•What are the learning goals of this session?
•What topic(s) will this session cover? Can you outline the
flow of the topics based on the easiest to the most
complex?
•Can you think of an activity that will introduce the main
topic to the participants?
•Can you appropriate any of the interactive exercises you’ve
seen in past trainings to fit your session?
• How will you debrief on this activity? What questions will you ask the
participants to get them to connect the activity with the main topic of
your session?
• How will you deepen the participants’ understanding on the topic?
What’s the outline of your lecture / input?
• What are the steps in your hands-on exercise in the deepening?
Questions?
Thank you!!!