Wondering what a course actually looks like? Curious about the teaching techniques our volunteers utilize?
Online Volunteer Training
Are you a new Cooking Matters volunteer, or just looking to brush up on your skills? Our online training helps you refine your techniques and create a postive experience for your participants.
Watch the Training Videos
Volunteer training videos are embedded throughout the training website, but can also be viewed as a group. Each video shows a key behavior in action that helps make the experience as meaningful as possible for both the participants and the volunteers.
Watch the Volunteer Training Videos online.
Read the Gold Standards
Cooking Matters has developed a list of key behaviors and actions, or “gold standards,” that should take place within each class in order to make the experience as meaningful as possible for participants. These standards provide the guidelines for how an ideal course should function.
Review the Volunteer Gold Standards before your course.
Lesson Enhancements and Visual Aids
In order to reach all kinds of learners during Cooking Matters programs, we have developed a collection of visual aids that help show many of the Cooking Matters concepts in an easy-to-understand way. Cooking Matters coordinators can bring these to the program as a teaching tool for instructors.