Teacher Training Details

CORRESPONDENCE/ONLINE COURSE & EXAM ($319 per teacher)

All poten­tial teach­ers begin with the Basic Pre/postnatal Certification.

The first step is the correspondence/online Study Course, then the Basic exam. Those who pass are cer­ti­fied as a Basic Pre/postnatal Fit­ness Instruc­tor and may choose to con­clude train­ing if they already have a pro­gram or are pre­pared to cre­ate their own pro­gram, or they can enroll in a Practicum to learn hands-on teach­ing skills (option 1). The Course Out­line and Objec­tives are detailed fur­ther down this page.

COURSE REGISTRATION PROCEDURE:

1. Con­tact via email: director@dancingthrupregnancy.com with your name, mail­ing address, phone, email and inter­est in reg­is­ter­ing for the teacher train­ing and we will fol­low up. PTPN mem­bers add your mem­ber­ship num­ber. Or, call 1–800-442‑9034. The best times to call are M-W-F from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. (East­ern time).

2. Select appro­pri­ate fee and pay via Pay­Pal (below) for Study Course & Exam. Or, return the reg­is­tra­tion form we send to you, with a check via reg­u­lar mail.

Per per­son or Group Fees

Per person $319.00 10 persons or more - per person $279.00 PTPN member - per person $299.00 PTPN - 5 persons or more - per person $269.00

UPCOMING PRACTICUM SCHEDULE

Decem­ber 5 (Sun­day) 9 a.m. — 4 p.m.  • WELL @ Yale-New Haven Hos­pi­tal (New Haven, CT, USA).

spring 2011 • Los Ange­les, CA, USA • Details TBD

check­ing for diastasis

cre­at­ing aer­o­bic skills

learn­ing patient pro­tec­tion policies

The one-day Practicum includes hands-on train­ing focused on pro­gram goals and effec­tive pro­gram design. Par­tic­i­pants develop their own exer­cise units for Mind/Body skills, Core Strength, Range of Motion and fun Car­dio activ­i­ties. Assess­ment tech­niques — such as check­ing for dias­ta­sis, eval­u­a­tion of the relax­ation response, and ana­lyz­ing music struc­ture for use in class — are learned. Re-alignment, core recov­ery, and relief of sci­at­ica and carpal tun­nel are also cov­ered. Practicum objec­tives are out­lined fur­ther down this page. The Practicum cur­ricu­lum out­line is on the Practicum Cal­en­dar page.

The DTP Practicum on Pre/postnatal Fit­ness course has been approved for 4.5 State of Cal­i­for­nia con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion hours by PTPN, the Con­tin­u­ing Edu­ca­tion Approval Agency.

PRACTICUM REGISTRATION PROCEDURE:

If you reg­is­ter as an indi­vid­ual for the Practicum at the same time as the Course, there is no charge for the Practicum. If you are reg­is­ter­ing a group, the first reg­is­trant is free and the addi­tional reg­is­trants are $25 per per­son. Renewals are $45 per per­son; first time Renewal is $35.

1. Con­tact via email: director@dancingthrupregnancy.com or call 1–800-442‑9034 to reserve a place in the Practicum. Include your name, phone and email.

2. Select appro­pri­ate fee and pay via Pay­Pal (below) for the Practicum. Or, return the reg­is­tra­tion form we send to you, with a check via reg­u­lar mail.

Per per­son or Group Fees

With Course registration $0.00 10 persons - first person free - per person $25.00 Renewal $45.00 First Renewal $35.00

STUDY COURSE  CONTENT & LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Par­tic­i­pants suc­cess­fully com­plet­ing the exam will be able to…

…locate valid, reli­able and rel­e­vant data and research find­ings about exer­cise for preg­nant women, post­par­tum women and moms & babies.

…iden­tify and explain the sig­nif­i­cance of major phys­i­o­logic char­ac­ter­is­tics of preg­nancy, pre-labor signs, major events of labor and birth, the puer­perium and the extended post­par­tum period, as well as how they lead to the devel­op­ment of goals and pri­or­i­ties of phys­i­cal activ­ity for this population.

…describe appro­pri­ate types of phys­i­cal activ­ity for the pre/postnatal population.

…iden­tify and explain major inter­ac­tions of exer­cise, preg­nancy and the post­par­tum period; that is, areas in which preg­nancy influ­ences exer­cise mea­sure­ment, in which exer­cise has an impact on preg­nancy and its out­come, or both phe­nom­ena occur simul­ta­ne­ously, including:

• Car­dio­vas­cu­la­ture and Hemo­dy­nam­ics (pla­cen­tal devel­op­ment, shifts in car­dio­vas­cu­lar  mea­sure­ment, hypoten­sive or low blood pres­sure syn­dromes, hyper­ten­sive or high blood pres­sure dis­or­ders and utero­pla­cen­tal blood flow)

• Ther­moreg­u­la­tion — why we some­times feel hot and how our body cools in pregnancy

• Metab­o­lism (hyper­in­su­line­mia, ges­ta­tional dia­betes, weight gain or loss, obe­sity, effects of eco­nomic or social issues, nutri­tion and type of work, stress, nor­mal energy needs in preg­nancy and effects of meta­bolic shifts of preg­nancy on the immune system)

• Res­pi­ra­tion and Acid-Balance

• Bio­me­chan­ics

• Psycho-Social phe­nom­ena asso­ci­ated with preg­nancy and birth

• Fetal Responses

• Preg­nancy Outcomes

• Puer­perium and Extended Post­par­tum period (phys­i­o­logic and psy­choso­cial changes).

…iden­tify the nec­es­sary and suf­fi­cient com­po­nents of exer­cise that safely and effec­tively meet the goals and pri­or­i­ties of phys­i­cal activ­ity for this pop­u­la­tion, based on cur­rent research and theory

…iden­tify guide­lines for nutri­tional suf­fi­ciency for pre-conception, preg­nant and breast­feed­ing women.

…demon­strate abil­i­ties to do ade­quate needs assess­ment, intake pro­ce­dures (includ­ing HIPAA mod­i­fi­ca­tions), acquire informed con­sent when col­lect­ing data on clients, limit lia­bil­ity, and eval­u­ate pro­gram out­comes for the pre/postnatal population.

…explain why and how to develop a sup­port­ive net­work of obstet­ri­cal and allied pro­fes­sion­als to serve as advi­sors, and how to effec­tively mar­ket to the tar­get population.

EXAM:

The test is pri­mar­ily mul­ti­ple choice

MATERIALS:

The fol­low­ing text­book is pre-seminar reading:

Cowlin, AF. 2002. Women’s Fit­ness Pro­gram Devel­op­ment. Human Kinetics.

Avail­able at www.humankinetics.com/products/showproduct.cfm?isbn=0880119373

or Amazon.com.

Please read chap­ters 1 and 5–11 in the text­book (pur­chase separately).

Fur­ther pre-exam read­ing is des­ig­nated in the work­book and is located on this website.

Work­book is sup­plied via e-mail and other mate­ri­als via reg­u­lar mail.

All mate­ri­als and the test are in English.

PRACTICUM CONTENT & LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Practicum par­tic­i­pants will be able to…

…iden­tify the nec­es­sary and suf­fi­cient com­po­nents of exer­cise that safely and effec­tively meet the goals and pri­or­i­ties of phys­i­cal activ­ity for this pop­u­la­tion, based on cur­rent research and the­ory, including:

• Mind/Body — Cen­ter­ing (bal­ance, core strength, abdom­i­nal breath­ing, asso­cia­tive focus)

• Relax­ation Response & Stress Management

• Strength, Flex­i­bil­ity & Spe­cial Exer­cises, includ­ing kegels, birth squats, dias­ta­sis assessment,etc.

• Car­dio­vas­cu­lar Conditioning

…demon­strate the abil­ity to design and/or mod­ify appro­pri­ate exer­cise com­po­nents for this population.

NEW HAVEN LOCATION INFORMATION:

Head­quar­ters’ Practicum Days are held at Yale-New Haven Hos­pi­tal in New Haven, CT. Local hotels include the New Haven Hotel (203–498-3100), The Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale (800–843-6664 or 203–772-6664) and the Mar­riott Court­yard at Yale (203–777-6221). Rates range from about US$ 89 — $ 189. Rates vary, depend­ing on the hotel and what is else is hap­pen­ing at Yale that weekend.

The clos­est air­port is Tweed-New Haven (HVN). It is a US$ 10 — $ 15 taxi ride to the hos­pi­tal or hotels. You can walk to the hos­pi­tal from the hotels. There is also an air­port near Hart­ford (about an hour north of New Haven) called Bradley (BDL) air­port. This is a larger air­port. To get from Bradley to New Haven, go to ground trans­porta­tion and ask for the Con­necti­cut Limo. Round trip to New Haven is about US $ 70. Take the limo ser­vice to New Haven, then a taxi to the hotel or hos­pi­tal ($ 5 — $ 10). For those com­ing from abroad, Con­necti­cut Limo ser­vice also runs from Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports.

It is also pos­si­ble to bring the Practicum to your facil­ity, if you have 12 — 15 qual­i­fied participants.

Call 1–800-442‑9034 or con­tact director@dancingthrupregnancy.com for more infor­ma­tion. Best days/times to call: M-W-F 10 am. — 3 p.m. (East­ern U.S. time).