My Guide Practitioner
Level 3 training course
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My Guide training
Developed in partnership
The My Guide training programme has been developed by Guide Dogs, in collaboration
with its partners. However, the delivery of the training is the responsibility of the trainer or
organisation providing the training.
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The aim of the course
To enable participants to deliver and assess Level 1,
Community Sighted Guide; Level 2, My Guide
volunteer training and also Level 3 My Guide
Practitioner to people in your own organisation.
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Introductions
 Why are you interested in becoming a My Guide
Practitioner?
 What are your hopes and fears for the course?
 What is the result of your learning styles
questionnaire?
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Guidelines to help the course
run smoothly
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Mobile phones off or on silent please
We all agree for only one person to speak at a time
Relax!
Say what you think
Be respectful at all times
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Course objectives 1
For participants to be able to:
 Confidently deliver Level 1, 2 and 3 courses by
learning training techniques, management of the
courses and a revision of the course materials
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Course objectives 2
For participants to be able to:
 Observe and assess the learning of Community
Sighted Guides (L1) and My Guide volunteers (L2)
 Apply background learning and in- depth
understanding gained from their own study of Level
1 and 2 courses to support learners
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Sighted Guide programme
– an overview
Level 1 – Community Sighted Guide
 Trained to act as eyes/vision with confidence
 In public as part of normal daily life
Level 2 – My Guide volunteer
 Provides a sighted guide service for an agreed
period to enhance the service user’s
independence through getting out and about
Level 3 – My Guide Practitioner
 Requires learning, assessment and practice at
Levels 1,2 and 3
 Trains other sighted guides
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Sighted Guide programme
– the training path
Level 1 Community Sighted Guide training
(+ observed practice)
Level 2 My Guide volunteer training
(including four online modules)
plus two additional topics
My Guide Practitioner training course
(+observed delivery of training)
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What makes a good trainer?
 Group to discuss good training experiences.
 What was it about these particular events that
made them successful?
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Learning Styles
 Share your result from the questionnaire
 Are you visual, auditory or kinaesthetic?
 Understanding of the different learning styles helps
effective communication and learning
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Visual learners
 Learn best by seeing things
 Will tend to use and respond to :
 I get the picture
 What’s your view?
 Training tools to use: diagrams, pictures
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Auditory learners
 Learn best by hearing things
 Will tend to use and respond to :
 That rings a bell
 Sounds ok to me
 Training tools to use: stress key words, use stories and
anecdotes to illustrate
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Kinaesthetic learners
 Learn best by moving and doing things
 Will tend to use and respond to:
 How does that grab you?
 It certainly feels right
 Training tools to use: hands on activities,
opportunities to move about
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My Guide training
 Why might people want to take part in this training?
 What impact will these reasons have on the training
and the trainer?
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Principles of giving good
feedback
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Allow time
Avoid overload
Always be constructive
Use feedback to create a positive learning
experience
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Delivering the training –
understanding the agendas
and equipment
 Trainer’s role in administration
 Resources needed
 Resources available
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Delivering the training
 Now it’s over to you……
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Assessment for Levels 1 and 2
 Process for Level 1 and 2
 Review the Level 1 assessment form
-Assessing observed practice
 Review scores from online assessment on the My
Guide learning site
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Assessment of Practitioner
 Review of the Level 3 assessment form
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Next steps to becoming a My
Guide Practitioner
 Set dates to deliver Level 1 or Level 2 and arrange
for assessor to be present
 Online learning is available on Guide Dogs
learning site
 Best Practice Guide is available
 Support is available from your assessor:
Name email and phone number
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My Guide Practitioner
 Thank you for your participation
 Good luck
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