Teacher Training to teach yoga to children with Autism
Where is the best place to learn to be a confident and successful teacher for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD)? Teaching yoga to children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is difficult and challenging.
Training any potential teacher to teach any subject to children with ASD is challenging. This is because the complexities of ASD are difficult to demonstrate or explain.
I have given countless training workshops to adult audiences on how to teach yoga to children with ASD. Whilst they have been effective, they have been effective up to a point.
This is because they cannot replicate successfully what goes on in the classroom, and cannot adequately prepare you for the work.
The best training can only take place in a school – a school that specialises for children with ASD. Only in this environment can you really see and begin to comprehend the complex needs of the children and learn how to engage them in order teach them yoga effectively.
I believe this is the best and most practical way to enhance your confidence, to improve your class management skills and to enrich the content, structure and delivery of your lessons.
Length of course
The course consists of three distinct and separate days which can be spread over time to suit your needs. It is pretty intensive so we need to start early at 8.00am and work through to 3.00pm.
Taster Days
If you would like to train to teach yoga to children with autism, but are not quite sure if you have what it takes, then a taster day could be the answer for you.
Simply, you can spend a day with me in school, observing, co-teaching and asking questions. At the end of the day you will receive honest and constructive feedback. This route is proving to be a wise approach saving students time, money and heartache.
Also you can try a taster day before committing to two more days of teacher training.
Contact me , Michael Chissick at info@yogaatschool.org.uk for more information about content and cost.
No -Quibble Guarantee of Quality
If you are not totally satisfied with the quality of training you will be offered a full refund
Where does the course take place?
The course takes place in one of East London’s leading specialist schools for children with autistic spectrum disorders. The school is easily accessible on public transport.
Why is this the best course for you?
There are three outstanding reasons why this course enables you to become a more confident teacher:
Firstly, you get to see at first hand what it looks like to teach yoga to ASD children.
You will learn:
- How to structure the lessons
- How to engage the children
- The importance of sensory integration in teaching children’s yoga
- Which postures to teach
- The most effective approaches to use
- How to manage and deal with challenging behaviours
- Why the support from Class Teachers and Teaching Assistants is so important and how best to manage it.
Secondly, you will learn how to teach yoga to children at Foundation and Key Stages 1 & 2. In my experience this is the most challenging of all the key stages and the range that I am most requested for help with training.
Thirdly, you will be one of two learners on the day and will, therefore, receive the benefit of One to Two training, which means that:
•You will have an immense amount of attention. This means that you will have more opportunities to engage in honest and constructive feedback and be able to discuss areas of your practice that you would like to improve.•In addition you will have opportunities to use me as a resource – to ask questions, to observe models of classroom management, behaviour control, how postures are introduced, how games are organised, how to teach relaxation and calming activities, how to teach sequences and much more.
When is the next course?
Courses run throughout the academic year in term time. Training takes place on a Tuesday
Overview of Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Simplify your planning with clear-cut, highly effective structures and strategies
- Deliver a progressive course over the term
- Engage the children so as to help them develop their sensory, motor, language and social skills through the yoga
- Select postures to match the pupil’s ability
- Improve your class and behavioural management skills
- Manage the support from Class Teachers and Teaching Assistants
Assessment and achievement
Of course you need to demonstrate your competence and ability to teach yoga to children. That is why you will take a Qualifying Teaching Practice and hopefully pass. That said, depending upon your confidence and ability, you would have had plenty of teaching practice by the third day.
What are my credentials?
I have taught yoga in both primary and special needs schools since 1999 and am acknowledged by the yoga community and the education sector as a genuine leader in this field, and often refered to as 'The Teachers' Teacher'
More to the point, I have been teaching children with ASD as part of the integrated school day for more than a decade. My techniques and strategies are tried and tested many times over and work.
My expertise in designing teacher training courses at the appropriate level and delivering training is unique. I am a British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) Diploma Holder and a Qualified Primary School Teacher.
I am the author of the only accredited teacher training course for children’s yoga in the UK - The BTEC Advanced Diploma for Teaching Yoga to Children.
Other Essentials
You will need an Enhanced CRB to be considered for the course
Insurance
Yoga at School can now help you with the insurance cover that you will need to teach yoga to children.
Simply, having shown that you are competent to teach yoga to children, upon our recommendation you are able to buy Public Liability and Legal Expenses cover at a reasonable rate from a specialist in this field.
We do not profit from this and neither do we receive a commission. This arrangement is there to encourage you to be out there teaching and using the ideas and expertise you have learnt on our training days without bureaucratic hurdles getting in your way.
If you would like know more contact me , Michael Chissick at info@yogaatschool.org.uk
Applicants are considered from:
From the education sector
Ideal applicants are class teachers, teaching assistants, speech & language specialists, special needs professionals who are already working in special schools with children with autism, who know the kind of benefits that yoga can bring to children and want to make this happen in their schools.
This course is also ideal for school teachers, teaching assistants and special needs professionals who practice yoga, who have personally experienced the benefits, who regularly attend classes, who attend workshops or yoga holidays to deepen their knowledge and understanding.
From the yoga community
The course is ideal for yoga teachers with sufficient experience of teaching yoga to children and who would like to improve and develop their teaching skills and approaches.
Ideal candidates will be experienced yoga teachers, whose lives are greatly influenced by their practice and who have a deep sense of gratitude for the richness of life that yoga has given them; and who care passionately about children’s welfare, and who want to use their knowledge and experience of yoga to help children.
Course cost
Taster days and course fees are sensibly priced and are great value. Price on application.
How to apply
If you would like to be considered for the course please fill in the enquiry form; or if you would like more information email me , Michael on info@yogaatschool.org.uk ; or, and this is probably your best option, telephone me to explore your suitability.
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