[Grammar] Training or trainings

[mamen]

Dear teachers,

What should I use in my objective, training or trainings? Is there such word as "trainings"?

Objective: To obtain a position of a secondary education Mathematics teacher in your institution to maximize my training/trainings....

Note: I've had lots of trainings

 

[5jj]

I don't recommend it, but the uncountable 'training' is now widely used countably in the sense of 'training course'. I don't think you can 'maximise' training. Better would be '... to build on my training' or '... to put into practice what I learnt while training'.

 

[mamen]

Dear teachers,

What does "to build on my training" means?

Here is my complete objective: To obtain a position of a secondary education Mathematics teacher in your institution to maximize my training by sharing my learning experiences and acquired expertise in the field of mathematics.

Do I still have to change the word "maximize"?

Thanks again..

 

[Rover_KE]

Here is my complete objective: To obtain a position of a secondary education Mathematics teacher in your institution to maximize my training by sharing my learning experiences and acquired expertise in the field of mathematics.

Do I still have to change the word "maximize"?

You don't have to. 5jj gave you better alternatives.

Rover

 

[mamen]

Thanks teachers!

I got one more question.
What does "to build on my training" means?

 

[anhnha]

I got one more question.
What does "to build on my training" means?

NOT A TEACHER

build on phrasal verb

2 build on something
to use your achievements as a base for further development:
The new plan will build on the success of the previous programme.
See here: build - Definition from Longman English Dictionary Online

 

[konungursvia]

I don't recommend it, but the uncountable 'training' is now widely used countably in the sense of 'training course'. I don't think you can 'maximise' training. Better would be '... to build on my training' or '... to put into practice what I learnt while training'.

Thankfully, I never hear that over on this side.

 

[BobK]

Yes :-(, it does happen over here - I don't know why, when there's a perfectly straightforward way to make it countable: just add course or session or whatever. I wonder if French has borrowed 'le training' - as they did with 'shopping', 'listing', 'parking'.... (Un parking is countable... :-?)

b