TRAINING COURSES
OVERVIEW
ETL, in partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Disabilities Services Division (DDSD), provides training courses for caregivers to help them apply therapeutic teaching and learning in their lives and to those they care for, striving towards quality of life for everyone. Our courses focus on eight therapeutic skills taught through a reciprocal therapeutic relationship between constant teaching and learning, affecting therapeutic change in both the teacher and the learner.
TRAINING LOCATIONS
We offer our training courses via “Remote Teaching and Learning” from the convenience of your own home, as well as, “In-Person Classroom Teaching and Learning” via University of Oklahoma National Resource Center for Youth Services.
Course Descriptions
ETL 1 ORIENTATION
This course is broken into two chapters.
You will learn about the philosophy and fundamentals of Effective Teaching and Learning and how to apply ETL principles to your life.
ETL 2 ADVANCED
In this advanced training, individuals will be challenged to dig deep into their understanding of applying therapeutic effective skills to those they care for.
Chapter 1
- What is ETL?
- What is the teaching/learning process?
- What are effective and ineffective teaching/learning processes?
- What are therapeutic and non-therapeutic teaching/learning processes?
- What is the therapeutic/effective teaching/learning process?
- What are some facts about the therapeutic effective teaching/learning process?
- What are some attitudes towards effective therapeutic teaching/learning?
- How to understand one’s attitudes towards the teaching/learning process?
- Why engage in a therapeutic effective teaching/learning process?
- What are the factors that prevent effective therapeutic teaching/learning?
Chapter 2
- What are factors that increase effective therapeutic teaching/learning?
- Therapeutic lenses
- Practice of involvement
- Relationship development
- Requirements for developing therapeutic -Relationships characteristics of individuals involved in -Therapeutic relationships maintaining therapeutic -Relationships
- Therapeutic environment
- Therapeutic system
- Therapeutic thinking, feeling, and action
Advanced components
- Introduction
- • Nature, animal, and humanity
- • Perspective on human behavior
- Therapeutic Skills Development and Performance
- • Definition, principles, types
- • Difficulties related to performing eight therapeutic skills
- • Guidelines for teaching eight therapeutic skills
- Therapeutic Social Skills
- • Definition, principles, etc.
- Therapeutic Communication Skills
- • Definition, principles, etc.
- • Components of therapeutic communication
- • Factors related to effectiveness
- • Types of therapeutic communication
- Options
- • Definition, principles, etc.
- Choices
- • Definition, principles, etc.
- • Choice, risk, consequence
- Saying “No”
- • Create ways to avoid saying “No”

CONTACT US
sbarbee@etl.org
918-749-8717