The Alexander Technique College runs regular postgraduate courses for teachers both in-house and elsewhere. Courses have been run in Bath, Essex, Denmark, Vienna, and most recently, in Australia.

Courses available

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVEOLPMENT PRGRAMME FOR 2008

Workshops and supervision

CPD is a way of enhancing your skills and knowledge. If you look at the members section of the STAT website you will see that the CPD committee has launched a new information pack. As member of the CPD committee I have been working, with Stephanie Smith, to develop guidelines for best practise regarding CPD and to create as many opportunities for members as possible.

The guidelines relate both to the suggested number of hours of CPD you do each year (currently 35 hours) and what is considered CPD.

Having helped create the guidelines I am now offering more CPD workshops and supervision.

Supervision

Dates: By arrangement
Venue: 50 Grantham Road Brighton BN1 6EF
Fees: £50 per hour

Supervision is a way of tailoring your development to enhance your teaching skills as an individual teacher. Each session lasts an hour (this can be longer by arrangement) and can combine the following elements to suit individual needs.

• SWOT discussion analysis of your teaching! This means identifying Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. It sounds fierce but is a very useful way of focusing the supervision sessions to get the most benefit. SWOT can be reviewed occasionally to see what has changed.
• Practical work based on a particular aspect of teaching. For example your SWOT may reveal (or you simply know!) that you don’t enjoy taking legs, perhaps you find them too heavy or you are not sure how to deal with people with hip pain. We can explore different ways of taking legs and what the considerations are.
• Working on your own use. This is similar to a lesson but is focussed around a particular issue (perhaps YOUR legs!)
• Bring a pupil. You can use supervision to bring a pupil to work on and gain extra insight into how to support their learning (and your own).

Supervision sessions can be individual or shared between 2 teachers who would like to work together regularly in this way. To get the most benefit from supervision, consider it as an on-going process.

Contact:
For more information and to book courses please either call me on 01273 562595 or email me at info@alexander-technique-college.com

The Open College Network:
Post Qualification Pathway for Alexander Teachers
Residential and self-study course: Dates to be announced

Venue:
The White Horse Hotel. High Street Rottingdean, East Sussex BN2 7HR, UK
Tel: 01273 300301
www.whitehorsehotelrottingdean.com

Tutor: Carolyn Nicholls BA (Hons), MA, MSTAT

This course is designed to clarify and hone your Alexander teaching and communication skills. It is open to all STAT (or STAT affiliated) teachers who are current practising members of their society.

As well as deepening your experience as a teacher, the course will introduce you to reflective practice methods and research skills, enabling you to document your work in a professional manner. Successful participants will gain the OCN accredited certificate worth 128 credits at Level 4+ (for full details click here to download a Word file)

Dates to be announced

Contact:
Carolyn Nicholls
The Alexander Technique College
50 Grantham Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 6EF
Tel: +44 (0)1273 562595
email carolyn.nicholls@alexander-technique-college.com

Post-Graduate Students

We are happy to take post-graduate students as part of the main training course whenever there is space available. A graduate student can attend for any period from a few days to a term or more, and will be included in the daily timetable in the same way as other students. Whenever the graduate student receives individual attention from one of the teachers the work will, of course, be adapted to the graduate student's interests and level of experience.

This is an excellent way for teachers trained elsewhere to deepen their understanding and extend their skills.