LEVEL 1 - Training a teacher/tutor at GD (3 hours total)If the student’s school is interested, a form-teacher, SENCO, special needs tutor, or a teaching assistant can come to us to participate in the last three hour of the programme, which is dedicated to training of a support-person. This provides staff with better understanding of the Davis approach and in turn facilitates better rapport and communication between student, teachers and parents.
If the student agrees, a form teacher may be shown how to provide subtle reminders of using the student’s newly acquired Davis tools for focusing and managing their energy in the classroom.
LEVEL 2 - Training at school (6 hours total)
The support training generally happens at the location where the programme is provided, but a growing trend is for the whole last day of a Davis programme to be staged at the student’s school. This facilitates hand-over and training of staff that might want to support the student during the approximately 50 hours of follow-up work that is needed. In this case, the school needs to provide facilities consisting of a table/desk where the Davis facilitator and the student can sit quietly opposite each other and work with plasticine (avoid a carpet). The facility also needs to accommodate any support people wanting to be trained.
Schedule: During the three hour morning session the Davis facilitator is still finishing off the one-to-one programme with the student. If staff’s interest and circumstances allow, they are welcome to sit in on the morning session to see the work in action and ask any questions that might arise. The three hour afternoon session is dedicated to training any support person from the student’s family or school, scheduling follow-up work, and assessing the changes the student has experienced through the programme.
LEVEL 3 - Programme demonstration at school (32 hours total)
When circumstances allow and all parties agree, we have now started offering the option of staging the whole programme at school. In this case we like to supplement the work with an introduction presentation to staff at the beginning, and a case study presentation at the end. These presentations can for example be scheduled in lunch-breaks. Alongside this, staff can drop in over the course of the five days, as their schedule allows. This option allows teachers to watch the work in action and ask any questions they might have and can therefore be viewed as a free Continuous Professional Development opportunity for staff.
