Teacher Training Details

2010 TRAINING — CORRESPONDENCE/ONLINE COURSE & EXAM ($319 per teacher)

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

First, they take the correspondence/online course, then take the Basic exam. Those who pass are cer­ti­fied as a Basic Pre/postnatal Fit­ness Instruc­tor (option 1). Trade­mark Licensee Instruc­tors (option 2) and Advanced DTP® Licensee Instruc­tors (option 3) must first pass the Basic exam before mov­ing on to the Practicum. Course and Practicum Objec­tives are out­lined below. More on options/fees at Become a Teacher and Start a Pro­gram (click on pages at Right).

2010 TRAINING — PRACTICUM SCHEDULE

March 21 (Sun­day) 9 a.m. — 4 p.m.                        June 27 (Sun­day) 9 a.m. — 4 p.m.

WELL @ Yale-New Haven Hos­pi­tal (New Haven, CT, USA).  Other dates & loca­tions TBD.

check­ing for diastasis

cre­at­ing aer­o­bic skills

learn­ing patient pro­tec­tion policies

Those who go on to options 2 or 3 par­tic­i­pate in a one-day Practicum where they do hands-on train­ing focused on pro­gram goals, effec­tive activ­ity com­po­nents, and evidence-based pro­gram design.

Those who con­tinue with option 3 receive fur­ther train­ing. In addi­tion, admin­is­tra­tors involved with option 3 pro­grams receive addi­tional train­ing in busi­ness man­age­ment and out­come track­ing for research purposes.

COURSE & PRACTICUM — CONTENT & LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Par­tic­i­pants will be able to…

…locate reli­able demo­graphic data and rel­e­vant research find­ings con­cern­ing preg­nant women, post­par­tum women and phys­i­cal activity.

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

…describe appro­pri­ate struc­tures, types, or mod­els of phys­i­cal activ­ity for the pre/postnatal pop­u­la­tion and demon­strate the abil­ity to design an appro­pri­ate activity.

…iden­tify and expli­cate 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 sim­u­late­nously, including:

• Car­dio­vas­cu­la­ture and Hemo­dy­nam­ics (pla­cen­tal devel­op­ment, shifts in car­dio­vas­cu­lar para­me­ters for mea­sure­ment, hypoten­sive syn­dromes, hyper­ten­sive dis­or­ders and utero­pla­cen­tal blood flow)

• Ther­moreg­u­la­tion

• Metab­o­lism (hyper­in­su­line­mia, ges­ta­tional dia­betes, weight gain or loss, obe­sity, effects of SES, 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).

…delin­eate 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 (kegels, birth squats, dias­ta­sis assessment,etc.)

• Car­dio­vas­cu­lar Conditioning

…demon­strate the abil­ity to design and/or mod­ify exam­ples of nec­es­sary and suf­fi­cient exer­cise com­po­nents for this population.

…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.

For fur­ther pre-seminar read­ing sug­ges­tions, go to Research Updates.

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

Work­book and other mate­ri­als will be sup­plied via mail.

All mate­ri­als and the test are in English.

LOCATION INFORMATION:

The 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.