CompTIA CTT+ TK0-201 – Classroom Instruction Performance Based Exam – TK0-202 Part 2

9. Evaluation Criteria: Domain 5

Finally, we have domain five, evaluating the Training Event. Again, this is a topic that will be covered in part in the form submission that goes along with your video. You’ll be giving long answer, narrative style answers that need to give evidence that you understand the principles of training or evaluating a training event, that is, evaluating the instructor performance, the course design, the logistics of the classroom, et cetera. So there’s two sub points here.

Five A you will give evidence of during the video performance, and this is evaluation of learner performance during and at the close of instruction. So we already spoke about how you will constantly monitor whether or not your students understand what’s going on. And you want to show that you can use a few different types of materials or media or methods to evaluate knowledge. So part of it is asking questions. You might show yourself delivering some sort of small quiz, or you might have an activity that the learners perform and you kind of walk around to all of their desks to show that you’re giving some individualized attention, making sure everybody understands the topic.

So make sure you use at least two or three ways of doing that and put one of them at the end of the course to show that you’re formally evaluating the learners. And then five B evaluation of Instructor and course, as I mentioned, will be in the written responses on the form you submit, where you critique your own performance. You want to offer insightful, reflection of complete submission, course, instructor learning, and the organization.

Make sure you include your understanding of the learning objectives, how you feel that your course design touched on the learning objectives. Make sure you have some positive and negative things to say about your performance as an instructor, and if there’s evidence to support some of your claims, be specific about it. You might even put the timestamp where you show evidence of that behavior, or where you see something that could be improved or a group activity that was successful, et cetera. So you’ll be guided through this portion by the form that you submit. Be specific, give lots of examples, and we’ll talk more about that form in an upcoming video.

10. Selecting Participants

When it comes to selecting your participants, you really have a lot of control over who you will use. It’s up to you. The CTT Plus official instructions say that you can use friends and colleagues. So whoever you feel that you’d like to use, you will need at least five people, and it’s good to really prepare them a little bit about what’s expected. Remember that they will all have to submit submit their signatures for that little waiver that says that they give you permission to record them during the class and also to submit the recording for the purposes of the video exam.

But yeah, they’re going to have some questions as to what’s going on. So just to be upfront, let them know that the recording is for the CTG Plus examination and that you have to give a sample instruction for 20 minutes. Make sure that you lock everybody up at least for an hour so that you can do a dry run and then the actual recording. If there’s a little bit of prep work, you might want to give yourself some extra time so that you’re not inconveniencing everybody, and likely everybody will want to know, well, what do I have to do during the class? Depending on the nature of what you’re teaching, usually, probably they just come with a blank slate, ready to participate in some training. But if you’re teaching a very technical topic, you do of course, want to include people that will at least have a basic understanding of the industry that your topic is related to.

So if it’s completely over the heads of one of your participants, well, it’s going to be hard to show learner engagement and that you’ve taken in the needs of the students, et cetera. So make sure that you choose the appropriate people. And then, of course, it’s okay to stage some of the questions so that you can show that you’re interacting with the audience. And so for those who are willing to contribute in that way, you can plan that ahead of time. But again, you have some flexibility with this. So maybe make sure you feel comfortable and the people that you are inviting to be in your video submission.

11. Tips for a Successful Recording

Let’s talk about some recording tips. Ultimately, you don’t want the low quality of your recording to distract from the stellar performance that you give as a classroom trainer. These recording tips are specifically called out in the documentation from CTT Plus. So go back and look at the TKO 202 submission instructions. They provide all of these and more. And even if you’re not a videographer yourself, you can still come up with a really good quality video that at least serves the purpose. And by all means, if you’re taking this course and you are a videographer, please just drop some simple tips for us in the comments section so that we can all learn from your expertise. Here are some brief reminders to make sure you get a good quality product.

Use a tripod. Holding a camera is shaky and it will be distracting. If you’re using a whiteboard to write something, make sure you write Led more legibly than normal, bigger than normal, so that it’s clear and also clear to the camera. Evaluators will be judging your presentation media, so they need to be able to see it along those lines too. You want to minimize the glare on the presentation screen, so if you need to angle it so that from the camera’s perspective there’s no glare, do so because Evaluators need to be able to see your instructional media.

You are instructed to use only one camera, which is important too. Again, you’re not going to be doing any editing, so you need to just have one continuous video. And also if you are having to do any zooming, if you do have a cameraman or woman, make sure that your zoom is set to the widest setting. And again, that helps it to be less shaky if you’re moving the camera. But ultimately, you can place the camera at the back of the room so that it shows you and your participants. And you won’t have to do a lot of movement with the camera, and that’s a way that many people choose to do it, which is the easiest.

Sound can be a difficult thing. The onboard microphones and cameras are never usually the greatest quality, particularly if you’re standing far away from the camera. If you have it set up at the back of the room, it would be great to use an external microphone that is of higher quality than the one that is on board, perhaps your phone or your video camera. And CTT Plus or CompTIA recommend, if possible, to wear a lapel mic. And they are great because they limit any distracting noises going on around you. And you can contribute to this goal of limiting other noises by making sure that the AC isn’t going to be too loud, making sure windows are closed so that there’s no jack cameras doing construction outside, or maybe making sure that the hallway door is closed so that passers by don’t cause a disruption. Do what you can to limit those noises.

Make sure the camera is running. Don’t miss any of your performance, particularly your attention arousing introduction because the camera wasn’t on. And finally, enhance the lighting. So if you know anything about video, you know how important lighting is. You could use a camera light or as much natural light as possible. And then, of course, make sure that the camera is not facing the light, but rather the light is behind the camera and shining on you and your class as subjects of the video.

And you’ll get the best possible recording that way. Again, if any of you have any expert tips on video recording because of your specific experience, please drop them in the comments below. But don’t be overwhelmed with this. You don’t have to create a marketing video. You just have to show that you can perform the objectives of the CTT plus course in a way that is not distracting. Make sure of these things and you’ll do fine.

12. Completing the Necessary Forms

On the official CTT Plus page@comptia. org. Again, under CTT Plus guidelines and forms, you will find the submission forms here for TKO 202. And of course, when you click this, it will ask you to download it. We’ve been here before. There are four forms that you have to submit. Form C we discuss at length in the next video. But let’s just kind of look at these so you have the opportunity to preview them. In this profile section, you’re going to submit all of your information here. You have to put your CompTIA Career ID number so you got that when you have done any other CompTIA certification or when you signed up and completed your CompTIA TKO 201.

And remember, photocopy of the score report is required. So make sure that you include that the Form B is the release form as we discussed. That’s the one where you have to grant CompTIA permission to use the recording, and that everybody who is a participant has their name and signature and grants permission for that to be used by CompTIA. We’re going to skip form. We’ll talk about it in the next video. Those are all the long answers. And then finally we have Form D, which is payment information. Nothing too complicated here outside of your normal online payment. And at the bottom of this form too, you have submission instructions, which we’ll talk about a little bit later. Too.

13. Form C: Instructor Evaluation

Form C is where you provide longword answers to questions centering around domain one, planning prior to the course and domain five, evaluating the training event. And of course, this planning and evaluating is specific to the 20 minutes module that’s recorded in the video. The great thing about this Form C is that you have all the time in the world to do a great job at it. It’s not like the computer test where you have a time limit and it’s not like the video test where you have to perform it well in real time. You can draft the answers and take all the time you want to really give stellar responses and make sure that you hit all the requirements. So in each question, what’s great about this is that it gives you the specific subdomain where the information that’s being tested is found.

So go back on those points. You can compare that to the scoring rubric that is in the submission instructions and you can just make sure that you highlight every different point that’s mentioned there. So it’s not overwhelming here because you have an outline for you already. There are a couple of things to remember. On some of these questions, you have to give an answer that corresponds to the video submission. So for example, in five here, what did you do to prepare for training this particular group of learners for this specific recorded session? If you adapted the material or made adjustments, explains what you did and why. If you did not need to adapt it, explain why this is not necessary. But here’s the point. Note your response to this question must match what scoring judges observe on the recording. So make sure that the two elements of your submission are not out of harmony. Refer to something that you’ve actually done in the video submission.

And the thing with this is it can also give you some more information on what to include in the video submission. If you know you’re going to be either calling it out in the domain one planning section or the Evaluating the Trainer section of Form C, then you can make sure that you perform it in a way that is clear to connect the dots. So remember that there after domain one, of course, we have the training evaluation. Same thing here.

Make sure, as you see here in number one, your response to this question must match what scoring judges observe on the recording. And as we learned in the scoring objectives, it’s good to put even timestamps on there. You can say at minute 1, minute 30 seconds, for example, you’ll notice that the instructor did this and you’ll know that the student did that and it demonstrates this point or that point. Be very specific and take your time with these answers. You can edit it right here in the Word document and make sure that you include all the points and that you get a great job. There’s no reason why you don’t just get an excellent job. It’s this because you have all the time to get it right. Yeah.

14. Training Video Quality Control

I’d like to redirect your attention to this portion of the how to Prepare for the Video Submission document. This is directly from CompTIA. org again, and this section is called Performancebased Exam Recording Checklist for Quality Control. Now, quality control is often done after something initial draft of something is created. However, my suggestion to you is to ask yourselves these questions before you begin shooting your video. Because ultimately, if something is missed, you don’t have to call all your friends and colleagues again to do a second recording.

That’s going to be a bit embarrassing, but you can read over this list as a checklist while you’re planning the video event and making sure that you’ve really checked the boxes. So remember that this is here and please review it. There are some excellent suggestions at the bottom about making a backup copy not only of the video, but also of all the documentation. In the event that something goes wrong with your initial video submission, you do want to be able to perhaps reuse the forms and the answers that you’ve created in the past. Hopefully, you won’t have that problem. But make sure there’s a backup of everything so you don’t lose your work. And refer to these questions here in the quality control of your video.

15. Submitting To CompTIA

And just because I want this to be as seamless as possible for you to upload your video submission, I thought we could just go over the submittal instructions and what it looks and feels like. I don’t want you to be overwhelmed by the technicalities of uploading your video. So this information right here is taken again from the submittal instructions from CompTIA. org that you downloaded. It’s on that same file under form D. And as you can see, you have two options to submit your files the documents, the written documents and also the video file. You can send it in by mail if that’s your style, or you can do an online upload, which I’m guessing most of you will choose to do at CTT submission. com.

So if you go to CTT submission. com it will look like this. And when you do this, make sure that you are ready and prepared with the information from your TKO 201. You will have to put in some information that you received on the printout for successful completion of that course. You also are going to need your CompTIA ID number and some personal information. You’ll set up an account, you’ll perform form an email validation and then you will be prompted to submit all your videos on this site. So exciting. Once you get that done, you’re just waiting for a response from the evaluators ready to become a certified technical trainer?

16. Review – TK0-202

Let’s briefly review what we discussed in this section seven, everything you need to know to submit for the performance based classroom instructor TKO 202. It’s important that you watch all these videos. Review all the submission instructions from CompTIA. Before you hit that record button on your video recording, you’re going to select five or more friends and get them all in a room and set everything up. You don’t want to get it wrong because it’s very difficult to go through that process again. So make sure that you’ve created a checklist, created a nice outline for your course. You’ve practiced it out loud a number of times, and you feel confident so you can get it right the first time. Again, my suggestion is perhaps to block off an hour of your friend’s time so that you can do a dry run.

And then the real thing. Each video has to be about 20 minutes, so you should have plenty of time to do that. We talked about the evaluation criteria of each domain. Again, make this a kind of checklist and be sure that you are specifically doing these things when you perform. You may need to be a little bit more deliberate about this than you normally would be if you were teaching, because you’re trying to give evidence of all these points in 20 minutes rather than over the course of an entire training event. But be specific, and then in particular Form C, where you give those long answers. Remember, you have all the time in the world to get that correct.

You can go back and identify the sub domain points and how they want to be evidenced in Form C, and specifically call out all the points that will be evaluated. And then also be specific about where they show up in your video recording. So use specific time markers and connect them to the learning objectives and connect them to the evaluation criteria that you are demonstrating. So everything you need is here. And if you’ve made a decision far, congratulations, because all that’s left is to just wait on that submission to come back from the evaluators and you’ll become a CompTIA certified technical trainer. So move ahead now to section nine. And I’ve got some parting words and some last minute prep that you can do before you start your tests.