Train-the-Trainer Workshop
This 3-day workshop builds internal AI facilitation capacity. Target: 10–15 CBO trainers who are experienced adult educators but technological novices. They leave certified to deliver AI literacy programming.
Workshop Overview
Demystification and Foundational Fluency
Trainers become comfortable AI users
Pedagogical Integration and Sector Alignment
Trainers become comfortable AI instructors
Facilitation Practice and Certification
Trainers demonstrate readiness to deliver
Day 1: Demystification and Foundational Fluency
Introductions. Anonymous survey: comfort with AI tools. Discussion: biggest questions about AI.
Walk through 5 content areas and 7 delivery principles. Explain why DOL published it, what TEGL 03-25 authorizes.
Each trainer completes 3 tasks using a free AI tool: (1) draft an email, (2) summarize a document from their own work, (3) ask AI a question they know the answer to and evaluate.
What data should never go into a consumer AI tool? Review a sample acceptable use policy. Trainers draft 3 rules for their CBO's AI policy.
Introduction to hallucinations. Trainers ask AI about their area of expertise, identify errors. Group discussion: handling this in front of a classroom.
Direct discussion on imposter syndrome. Key frame: "You don't need to be an AI expert. You need to be an expert facilitator who understands AI well enough to guide others."
Review key concepts. Homework: use AI for one real work task tonight.
Tech anxiety is the single biggest barrier on Day 1. Address it early, directly, and repeatedly. Do not rush the guided exploration — give trainers time to struggle. The trainers who are most anxious today are often the most effective facilitators later.
Day 2: Pedagogical Integration and Sector Alignment
Trainers share their real-world AI task. What worked? What surprised them?
Transition from "I can use AI" to "I can teach others." Review Core and Shell framework. How to write observable learning objectives.
Trainers use AI to build materials: (1) Generate a lesson plan for their population. (2) Create a rubric. (3) Draft facilitator talking points. Critique each other's outputs.
Groups by sector identify 3 AI-assisted occupational tasks, adapt one Core module, draft a Shell module outline.
Advanced prompting for instructional design: generate discussion questions, create scenarios, build assessments, adapt reading levels. Each trainer writes 5 prompts.
Review outputs. Each trainer selects one micro-module (15 min) to teach-back on Day 3.
Day 3: Facilitation Practice and Certification
Review assessment criteria for teach-back.
Each trainer delivers 15-minute micro-module. 5 minutes structured feedback. 5–6 teach-backs.
Remaining 5–6 teach-backs. Same format.
5 structured scenarios: (1) AI tool crashes mid-demo. (2) Can't answer a question. (3) AI generates biased content. (4) Vastly different digital fluency levels. (5) Participant insists AI will take their job.
Review all workshop materials. Discuss ongoing professional development and peer networks.
Written component (15 min, 10 questions). Practical component (teach-back, already completed). Passing: 70% written + "proficient" on teach-back.
Issue AI Facilitator Certification certificates. This certification is evidence of organizational capacity for your LWDB.
About the AI Facilitator Certification
What it signals to an LWDB:
- Your CBO has staff who have been formally trained and assessed on AI literacy instruction
- Your program has internal quality control — certified facilitators follow a standardized curriculum aligned to the DOL Framework
- Your organization can document staff development as evidence of organizational capacity in WIOA grant applications
- It is not a credential issued by DOL or any government agency — it is an internal organizational competency validation
- It is not permanent — facilitators should complete annual refresher training as AI tools and practices evolve
- It is not a substitute for subject matter expertise — certified facilitators are AI literacy instructors, not AI engineers or data scientists
Post-Workshop Support
Peer Check-In
Biweekly virtual meetups for certified facilitators to share challenges, exchange updated materials, and troubleshoot delivery issues.
Curriculum Review
Quarterly review of curriculum materials to incorporate new AI tools, updated DOL guidance, and lessons learned from delivery.
Facilitator Observation
Quarterly peer observation where one facilitator sits in on another's session and provides structured feedback using the teach-back rubric.
Advanced Workshop
Annual full-day workshop covering new AI developments, advanced prompting techniques, emerging sector applications, and recertification.