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4-days from lunch on Monday to lunch on Friday, in Regina, or brought to your own organisation if you have 6-8 people wishing to become tutors.
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Executive Summary:
APT tutors have a reputation second to none, and APT's School for Tutors is the course that teaches the standard. Available only to those who meet the admission criteria it comprises a 4-day Course, lasting from lunchtime Monday to lunchtime Friday.
The course teaches how to present prepared courses, and uses an APT course for delegates to practice presenting. It does not teach how to write a course (courses are pre-written, tutors don't need to write them). Those who successfully graduate from the course become an APT Accredited Tutor (Level 1).
For a full discussion of the benefits associated with becoming a tutor or affiliate, click here.
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Teaching methodology:
There is a very high degree of practice and feedback on this course, where delegates practice running a prepared APT course and receive feedback and further opportunity to practice. Around 75% of course time is used in this way.
Equally however there is a good amount of didactic material.
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What the course covers:
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Exactly what are you trying to achieve when you present a course to a group of delegates?
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Why it is NOT a good idea to give delegates material additional to what the course already covers; although it seems generous, it has major drawbacks. What? The slogan that sums this up.
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How to make a prepared course feel like your own when you present it, and why it is important to do so.
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The difference between a good story to tell on a course, and a bad one.
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What sports-psychology has to offer a course-tutor.
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It's good to make a course fun, and it's good to have a sense of humour, but what are the two major potholes you need to skirt around in being fun and demonstrating your sense of humour?
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PowerPoint is the most wonderful invention since the dawn of time, so how come so many people talk about 'death by PowerPoint'? How to use PowerPoint really well, and how not to use it. Above all, how to present slides. Why you need to read aloud slides that others can read perfectly well for themselves!
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A flipchart is not meant to be a comforter for the tutor – there is no need to turn your back to the audience and write down everything anybody says. And yet it does have a very important purpose, so it's good to know what that is.
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The point of a course is that people do things better after it. How can you get this to happen – and how can we check that this happens?
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How to keep the delegates not just awake, but energetic and enthused.
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As a tutor, should you stand up or sit down. The answer of course is both, but when do you do which?
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“Split into small groups” is a common refrain from a tutor, and it can be an excellent thing to do. And it can also be a very tedious and irrelevant thing to do. How to master running small group exercises so that they are useful and welcomed.
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If the course is due to start at 9.30, and it is now 9.30 but a quarter of the delegates have not yet arrived, what should you do?
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How long should breaks be … and when should they be?
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The 7 deadly sins for tutors and, conversely, the 7 key rules of Professionalism. Training is an elite activity (a) because the salaries of all the delegates makes it so expensive and (b) because it sets the standard for the subject in question. So it is essential that training is conducted with a very high degree of professionalism.
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What this course will do for you:
Certain benefits of attending the course are unconditional. Specifically, you will learn how to be as good a tutor as you can be, by attending this course. For other benefits, you need to graduate - to pass the course. If you do – and we do our best to help you do so – then you become an APT Accredited Tutor (Level 1). Benefits of becoming an Accredited Tutor are:
1. You are able to tutor APT courses within your own organisation, and your organisation pays just half the standard price for the course.
We provide the entire course: all the PowerPoint material for you to present, any videos if applicable, all the course exercises, workbooks for all the delegates (one each), registration of delegates on the APT database, certification for everybody who attends the course, and feedback on how the course was received. You provide the teaching room, any refreshments you think are appropriate, and of course your own skill and ability in tutoring the course. This is a great benefit to your organisation, which receives genuine APT training at half the cost; it may also be a benefit for your own professional standing.
2. Outstanding tutors may be invited to tutor courses outside of their own organisation.
In which case they receive the appropriate fee for doing so. This is 'by invitation only' and depends partly on your performance as an APT Accredited Tutor (Level 1) but also on the demand for courses experienced by APT. Many organisations welcome the fact of one of their people being a full APT tutor.
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Eligibility for the School for Tutors
The standard eligibility criteria for attending the school for tutors are that you should be:
1. A clinical or counselling psychologist of consultant grade or close to it.
2. Have an aptitude for teaching and motivating people to learn.
3. Receive good references from two specified referees (current and past line managers) who are asked to rate 10 scales.
Variations on the eligibility criteria.
APT operates a measured meritocracy, in that we constantly measure the performance of courses and tutors on two the key scales of presentation quality and relevance, and if a tutor delivers the required performance then they are by definition up to standard, whatever their level of seniority. In the same way, some tutors' professional backgrounds are nursing, occupational therapy and social work, but what they all have in common is (a) significant clinical experience, (b) the aptitude for teaching and motivating people, (c) good references from specified referees, as above, and (d) a 'feeling for' Psychological Therapies, as befits anyone accredited by the Association for Psychological Therapies.
So, if your c.v. does not fit the standard criteria you should not take it amiss if you are not accepted, but you can certainly still apply.
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How can I get more involved?
1. Participate in this course
Attend the course at APT Canada HQ, Regina, Canada on the 20-24th June 2016. The fee is a total of $1,195 plus GST/HST per person, non-residential, for the four days. To apply click here.
2. Bring the course to your organisation
If you have a minimum of 6 people needing training, we can bring this course to you for an all-inclusive fee of $1,195 plus GST/HST per person, and up to 8 people can attend. Note, each person must apply and be accepted onto the course before they may attend. The fee covers all costs: the tutor, tutor's expenses (travel and accommodation), a workbook for every delegate, course evaluation (evaluation document returned to you), registration of all delegates on the APT database, individual certificates of attendance sent to each delegate after course attendance, certificate sent to you listing all who attended. You provide the teaching room, any refreshments you want to, and the delegates!
To arrange this course, email office@aptcanada.com or call 1-877-893-7057. We will be pleased to hear from you.
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As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. |
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