Child and Family Services
Common Sense Parenting
Training of Parent Trainers

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

Common Sense Parenting: Training of Trainers equips you with the knowledge, techniques, and materials needed to conduct Common Sense Parenting classes in your community. You will master the content of each of the program's six sessions. You will become proficient in using Common Sense Parenting's five training components - review, instruction, modeling, practice and feedback, and summary - to emphasize experiential learning. You will also receive a trainer's kit, which includes the three main instructional tools used to present the program - a parent book, narrated videotaped examples of the parenting skills, and the trainer's guide. The three-day training of trainer's workshop includes lecture and discussion, small-group activities, videotaped examples, question and answer periods, skill practice and individual mock presentations.

TRAINING AGENDA

• Introduction to Common Sense Parenting (theoretical basis for the program, content and format of the program, research results)
• Parents as Teachers ( effective discipline, clear communication, using effective consequences to change children's behavior)
• Effective Praise (clear specific teaching techniques to increase children's positive behavior)
• Preventive Teaching (teaching expectations and setting children up for success)
• Corrective Teaching (stopping children's misbehaviors and teaching positive alternative behaviors)
• Teaching Self-Control (remaining calm when responding to emotional situations, and teaching children to calm themselves)
• Putting It All Together (developing an effective discipline plan)
• Conducting Effective Skill Practice Groups
• Individual Mock Presentations
• Organizing, Managing, and Promoting CSP Classes

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