1-On-1 Teaching Consultation Service (Virtual)

Price is $95/hour. If you wish to have more than one hour of consultation please add the appropriate quantity to your cart.

How Consulting Services Work?
This is your time - you set the agenda.

A one-on-one consultation with our knowledgeable trainer/consultant Margaret Spence can help steer you in the right direction to improve your skill/knowledge level in a variety of areas.  Once booked, Margaret will reach out and ask you to provide a summary of your consultation objectives to ensure your time is well spent.

Who Can Benefit From TrainCan’s Consultation Services?

• Do you struggle with certain food safety training concepts?
• Do you need support achieving a passing grade to obtain your food handler certification?
• You are an approved TrainCan trainer, but you’re uncertain about how to proceed with training.
• Are you challenged at the prospect of taking your current training skills to the next level?
• Perhaps you have reached a “performance plateau”, and don’t know how to proceed.
• You are challenged at the prospect of creating an engaging, interactive lesson plan.

We provide expert advice you can count on in a number of different ways, which include (but are not limited to) the list below:

Teaching Skills:

• ADULT LEARNING - Obtain a solid understanding of the concepts and principles.
• COMMUNICATION - Improve your communication skills for facilitating training sessions.
• TOOLS - Learn how to create engaging, interactive sessions
• DELIVERY – Explore how to improve your delivery of both in-class and in virtual training sessions.
• STUDENT ENGAGEMENT - Find out how you can convert “dry, dull, boring topics” (like microorganisms, pest control, HACCP) into fun and interesting training sessions.
• CREATIVITY - Develop your creative ability by brainstorming new activities which will engage your adult students and improve their retention.
• CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT - Explore how to deal with challenging students or awkward classroom scenarios.
• SIMPLIFY FOR SUCCESS - Apply the “KISS principle” when developing teaching strategies which take complex topics and turn them into easily understandable concepts for your students.
• STORYTELLING STRATEGIES - Learn how to use storytelling to improve student understanding and retention.

Topic Skills:

• GENERAL FOOD SAFETY - Develop a stronger understanding of hard-to-digest food safety topics, such as microbiology.
• HACCP – Foodservice-focused HACCP training made simple, understandable and memorable.
• TIME AND TEMPERATURE PRINCIPLE: Gain the confidence to answer your students’ tough questions regarding the science behind this very important topic.
• LEGISLATION: Improve your knowledge of all aspects of Canada’s Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments’ food safety regulations.  Emphasis will be placed on regulations in your jurisdiction.

TrainCan, Inc. Specific Topics:

Administration:

• PROPER ORDERING PROCEDURES - Learn how to order course materials and visual aid props to prevent administration errors and improve your students’ learning experience. Save time and money by learning how to order correctly the first time. Visit www.shoptraincan.com.
• TEACHING FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION COURSES – Work with our consultant to offer high quality food safety training sessions for your students. Whether you are a new trainer or seasoned, professional, you can benefit by being a “life-long learner”.
• EXAM PROCTORING PROTOCOLS - Learn how to properly order exams to suit your students’ needs. You now have several options! Visit: https://www.traincan.com/english-forms
• SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS - Find out what you can and cannot do to accommodate students with special needs.

Training Customization

• VIRTUAL TEACHING CONSULTATION - Learn how to convert your training delivery from a traditional physical classroom session into virtual training.
• CUSTOMIZED INDUSTRY SPECIFIC TRAINING STRATEGIES – Our consultant has facilitated TrainCan, Inc. food safety training courses to a wide range of food industry organizations. From foodservice to healthcare and food retail to food processors, our consultant can help you customize food training to better speak to your student base.
• PUBLIC TRAINING QUESTIONS - Speak with our training consultant to answer your “how do I offer public sessions in my community?” Costs, preparations steps, administration, common pitfalls and more.