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TOC for Education Certification, Level 1-120

Chest of Secrets Program

(Critical Thinking Skills for Early Childhood Education)

12 hours of instruction for teachers and 12 hours of TOCfE instruction for children. Program includes training manual for teachers, complete package of resources for children that include mats to kinesthetically practice the tools in group settings.

Prerequisite: None - entry level

General Objective:

Teacher Training: To prepare teachers to understand the rationale for and how to use these training materials with young learners who have not yet developed reading and writing skills. To develop the ability and confidence of teachers to immediately start using the program that will securely guide them through the TOC tools and methodology without prior TOC training or experience.

Student Training: Using prepared, relevant stories, teachers and children will learn together 3 TOC tools that enable them to significantly improve:

Internal communication
External communication
Problem solving and decision making
Self-reliance

Specific Learning Objectives:

Develop children’s abilities to speak using simple sentences and not single words
Retell stories and other information in a logical way
Significantly reduce children’s fear of reading
Predict consequences of their own and other people’s behavior
Differentiate between demands’ and ‘needs’ in conflict situations
Describe different perspectives in a conflict situation
Identify several solutions while facing a conflict situation
Develop the collaborative attitude and skills needed to effectively to work in pairs and small groups
Clearly state goals and create feasible plans to achieve them
Increase competencies in critical thinking
Apply (transfer) learning to other authentic situations