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Train The Trainer
Our provider training workshops prepare teachers, school counselors, prevention specialists, community youth educators, and other program providers to effectively implement the state-of-the-art prevention education activities and teaching strategies.
Each provider training workshop plays an important role in enhancing the confidence and skill capacity of participants, resulting in optimal implementation of the program.
The Importance of Provider Training
To achieve optimal results, a training program must be implemented carefully and completely. Just as important as what is taught is how the program is taught. The teaching techniques of facilitation, feedback, coaching and behavioral rehearsal ensure that your trainers fully understand and can demonstrate the key skills taught in the curriculum.
Your staff will benefit from the knowledge of our professional trainers. You will:
- Learn to teach the program effectively
- Get hands-on experience with the curricula
- Brainstorm possible challenges and program adaptation
- Learn best practices
- Share advice and strategies with colleagues
Creating Lasting Family Connections
(Substance Abuse prevention)
This nationally accredited prgram (endorsed by NIDA) teached youth to developsubstance abuse prevention strategies that:
build skills that help to resist negative social influences
support healthy marriage practices
reduce alcohol, tobacco and other drug use by youth
reduce violence and uncontrolled behavior
reduce inappropriate sexual behavior and the transmission of HIV, Hepatitis and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases
For more information, click the following hyperlink:COPES
Gilbert Botvin Life Skills
LifeSkills Provider Training workshops are designed to familiarize participants with the LifeSkills curriculum, teach the skills needed to successfully implement the program and discuss practical implementation issues. For more information, click the following hyperlink:Botvin
Second Step Violence Prevention
This provider training will help your staff gear up to implement and sustain the top-rated SECOND STEP program successfully.
Learn how to: Teach the curriculum effectively
Train others to teach and implement the curriculum
Model select lessons from the curriculum
For more information, click the following hyperlink:Second Step
High Scope Youth Worker Methods
This provider training has been proven to improve the experiences of youth in programs. The includes interaction strategies that you can immediately use. Participants then learn proven methods for setting up rich, interesting learning environments for young people. Topics include:
- Engagement: Choice and Voice
- Engagement: Plan-Do-Review
- Interaction: Peer Collaboration
- Support: Active Learning
- Support: Ask-Listen-Encourage
- Support: Reframing Conflict
- Safety: Structure and Clear Limits
- And more!
For more information, click the following hyperlink:High Scope
Teacher Expectations Student Achievement(TESA)
Educators often speak of improving classroom climate, clong the achievement gap, collaboration, teacher empowerment, high expectations, and raising self esteem. Usually our concept oof improvement invlves fising someone else. TESA suggest that the surest way to create change is to change ourselves.
Classrooms in the next century will reflect the diversity of changing demographics in our communities. Students in a majority of today's schools represent a myriad of languages, ethnicities, cultures and values.
The TESA program offers teachers effective strategies proven to help students achieve academic and personal success.
- TESA fulfills the requirement of providing professional development activities for instructional aides, teachers, and school administrators under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
- TESA is a behavioral change staff development program for all educators, grade levels, and subject areas. In the TESA coordinator training, participants learn 15 interactions designed to encourage equitable interaction with all students. The program is based on expectation theory and the early research of Thomas Good and Jere Brophy.
- TESA is designed to modify the way teachers interact with students through heightened awareness of how perceptions affect their expectations. Results of classroom research shows that use of TESA interactions improves student academic perfomance, gender and diversity awareness, attendance, classroom climate and reduces students discipline problems.
For more information, click the following hyperlink:TESA
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