Heritage
Interpretation Training Center
Spring Docent/Volunteer Interpretive Training Workshops for Museums, Historic Homes, Parks and Related Heritage Sites.
We
are pleased to offer our spring Docent/Volunteer Interpretive Training
workshops for getting your seasonal or volunteer staff ready to Provoke,
Relate and Reveal your unique stories and the stories hidden in your objects and
artwork, to your visitors in inspirational ways.
Available
as one day to 3 day interpretive training experiences with lots of hands-on
interpretive learning opportunities (people remember 90% of what they do 
Course
topics include:
* How your
visitors learn and remember in a recreational learning
environments.
* Developing
your interpretive theme and storyline.
* Developing your interpretive tour route and stops (to illustrate you main interpretive theme).
* Reading your
audience and pre-tour audience analysis (how to best "relate" to your group
using interpretive "intangibles" in your presentation
examples).
* Ongoing tour
evaluation - are they getting the message - relate each tour stop back to your
main theme.
* How to
position and manage your tour group stops throughout your
tour.
* Developing
your interpretive objectives (what you want your tour or program to have
accomplished during and after the tour is over).
* Interpretive techniques and discovery experiences to engage your tour group (touch, small, feel, think).
* End of tour evaluation techniques for self-evaluation. How do you think you did?
If you would
like more information on our docent/volunteer interpretive techniques and
principles training programs and seminars, feel free to get in touch. Put
our 40 years of training interpreters to work for you.
Workshop costs:
$600.00 per day of training
plus related travel costs.
e-textbooks and handout materials are included in the course
tuition.
John
Veverka
Director,
HITC
Certified
Interpretive Trainer
Sr. Instructor,
Kansas State University - Global Museum (Interpretive
Planning).