Ethics in the Classroom
(2 hours)
Ethical issues that affect classroom relationships can make or break a student’s learning process, the success of the school, or even the standards of expectations for our entire profession. It is imperative that massage educators be aware of the delicacies of communication that must occur in a setting where boundaries can appear to shift in unpredictable ways. This two-hour class designed specifically for massage educators explores fundamental principles of transference, counter-transference, and projection, and then applies them to identify where students, classes, teachers, and schools might be vulnerable to problems. Participants finish with a clearer idea of specific risks and benefits in a variety of teacher-student interactions, so that they can better guide the direction of their relationships.
Participants will be able to…
- Describe and identify key concepts including
- Transference
- Countertransference
- Projection
- Power differentials
- Apply these concepts to real-life classroom communications
- Explain the negative consequences of not understanding these communication dynamics
Teaching Pathology From the Heart
(3 or 4 CE hours)
Science teachers in massage and bodywork schools often find that their task is daunting: how can we engage students whose primary interests are most likely not to be in the direction we must lead them? In Teaching Pathology from the Heart, award-winning teacher Ruth Werner works with educators of pathology and other core curriculum sciences to identify and analyze obstacles, and to develop strategies to overcome them.
Participants will be able to…
- List appropriate standards and goals for science curriculum
- Analyze why some courses don’t work well
- Identify strategies to improve effectiveness
- Develop an ambitious but realistic plan for implementing these strategies in the classroom.