Workshop: The Essential Educator

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A one day program designed to enable educators to effectively utilise The Essential Educator Kit.

This one day workshop is designed for childbirth and parenting educators who are either using "The Essential Educator Kit", or who intend to purchase the Kit and want to become more familiar with its contents. The workshop is designed to enable educators to make full use of the materials in the Kit

Program aims

• Explore strategies for enhancing group cohesion and adult education
• Practice a variety of interactive activities to get a "feel" for how to facilitate them in their programs
• Discuss the "how-to" of managing groups
• Demonstrate the effective use of elements of "The Essential Educator"

Learning outcomes

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Facilitate a variety of teaching activities that incorporate adult learning principles.
• Describe basic group management techniques that enhance learning for participants.
• Identify strategies that can be used to promote normal birth, breastfeeding and parenting options.

Workshop Program

9.00 a.m.		Refreshments
9.30 a.m.		Welcome
9.45 a.m.		Creating an appropriate learning environment Introductions and icebreakers Group guidelines Agenda setting
10.30 a.m.		Focus on parenthood Activities: Settling the baby Making decisions as a parent Take a stand
11.30 a.m.		Promoting breastfeeding Small group activity Breastfeeding and formula feeding
12.00 noon		LUNCH
12.30 p.m.		The Birth Day The importance of language Promoting normal birth
1.30 p.m.		The big issue - pain in labour Activities: Labour Stretch Positions scenarios
2.30 p.m.		Putting birth interventions into perspective Activities: Epidural role play Cascade of intervention
3.30 p.m.		Evaluation strategies
4.00 p.m.		Close.

Workshop dates and locations

This workshop can be provided in a number of ways:

• On a regional basis for a number of hospitals in an area who are using or intending to use The Essential Educator Kit as a basis for their parent education programs
• For educators working in a single facility to enable team building, program co-ordination and effective networking across the various parent education programs offered by the facility. This is especially useful for larger hospitals where a number of different kinds of classes are offered, and information is required on how The Essential Educator Kit can be customised for the needs of the parents in these specialised programs.

To arrange for the presentation of one of these workshops, please contact Birth International for further details.