Understanding Training To Teach
People searching for Training To Teach are usually after one of two different things: a definition they can quote, or a way of working they can actually use. This page is about the second.
Three parts are doing the work here: Training sets the approach, Teach names what it is aimed at, and the to in between is where most of the disagreement actually lives.
What it looks like in real use
Among team leads, trainers and people responsible for onboarding, this is one of those ideas that seems abstract until the moment it is not — typically three weeks into an onboarding that everyone has already signed off as complete.
In practice this means walking through a real scenario aloud and being asked why at each decision point.
A worked sequence
Begin: What would you do first if this went wrong on your shift?
Continue: Who would you need to talk to, and what would you ask them? The second question is the one that distinguishes a right answer from a lucky one.
The failure mode
Where this usually goes wrong is that a completed training module means the process is understood — a mistake that is invisible until something unfamiliar turns up.
Which is why this is better treated as a habit than as a technique to be looked up once.
Going further
For a fuller treatment, work through the onboarding question sets in the resources section, then a demo using one of your own procedures.