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Professional development is an investment. It helps inform employees of new legislative requirements, uncovers workplace issues concerning health and safety, and allows an opportunity for personal and professional growth. Tight budgets do not mean giving up professional development opportunities, although they do demand some creativity. Let OSEA help!
OSEA also provides a library of training materials available in book or tape forms. For a complete list click below:
Training Materials Library List
Following are classes that OSEA can train or facilitate. We bring the training to your District!.
General topics suitable for all employees
KeyTrain Basic Skills Training/WorkKeys Assessment
The KeyTrain basic skills training is currently being used to help satisfy the NCLB and upcoming IDEA requirements for educational assistants, preparing them in reading, writing and math to sit for the WorkKeys Assessment. This program can be used for anyone wanting to refresh basic reading, writing, and math skills. Each occupation has a set standard for scoring in these areas based on job profiling.
Love Your Job Again!
In today’s uncertain economic situation, we are faced with fear, anxiety, and a feeling of being out of control; come learn to put things in perspective, get re-energized and learn to love your job again! We have lost ourselves in what if. Remember why you liked your job and recapture why you chose this as your occupation. Empower yourself. Learn to be your own advocate.
Subject to Change
Are you tired, frustrated, and feeling in a funk! How is that working for you? Learn to support the choice for self realization, self responsibility, unleash your energy, creativity and spirit; drive out fear and build trust, lift your attitude! Create the buy in for change!
Spanish for School Employees
Crash course in essential Spanish using the Command Spanish materials and methods, learn general courtesies, communication strategies, and vocabulary.
Working with Difficult People
When people don’t meet your expectations, it makes it difficult to work with them. See what you can do to help yourself interact with others.
Work is No Place for a Bully!
New legislation has been introduced that makes it harder for a bully to bully others in the workplace. Learn how to protect yourself in the workplace.
Live in the “NOW”
People usually live in the future, anticipating what will take place and regretting the past! We seldom “live in the NOW”. Learn how living in the moment can help with your memory, organization, health and help make better decisions.
Effective Communications with People Using Tact and Respect
Why do people behave the way they do? During any day, we encounter a variety of different personalities. Learn how to navigate the road, to read between the lines, defend your point of view without fear, and come off sounding articulate.
Your Career Portfolio is Your Ticket to Your Future
Developing and mailing your career portfolio is very important to your future. Be ready when promotional opportunities arise. List your most current skills, knowledge, and abilities to move ahead.
How to Give a Great Interview
You are your own best salesman! Learn how to give a sizzling interview. Deliver your skills, knowledge, and abilities with confidence. Know your talents and be ready with anticipated questions.
Effective Communications Made Simple
Learn 11 styles of communication. The ladder of communication promotes successful communication and connection for both the listener and speaker using a step-by-step process and an anchor to hold the conversation steady. Promote better listening skills and stay in the present when communicating with others. Hear what others are teaching; and hear what others are hoping to learn.
The Science of Communications
Learn how the brain receives, processes, and decipher information. This training begins with each participant taking a personal profile questionnaire to determine how they process information. This information helps identify how each person processes and communicates, as well as how others in their team process.
Dealing with Conflict in our Lives
Conflict is rarely thought of as being positive, especially when you are at odds with another; however, this method of communicating allows us to be risk takers and work outside our comfort zone! Learn how dealing with conflict actually makes you a better communicator.
Conquer Workplace Negativity
Do you say or hear statements like “We’ve always done it this way!”; ”If it’s not broke don’t fix it.”; “That won’t work here!” Are you tried of statements like these? Learn strategies and techniques that will help turn the most negative workplace around.
Customer Service for School Employees
We all have customers during the day. They are students, parents, administrators, teachers, the general public, and yes, they come at all times of the day especially when you are busy! Learn to cope with difficult and demanding customers in your day. We’ll discuss multitasking, balancing priorities, and other tips that will help you.
Be the Best You Can Be
It’s very important to have balance in your life, to include wellness both physically and mentally. Learn how to drastically improve your productivity without working longer or harder. Learn the importance of building winning relationships. Learn the principles for stellar performance, how to recognize and be rewarded for the work you do!
TEAM
We’re being asked to do more with less; learn how with a change of perspective we can turn that around and do less with more. More time, more communication, more cooperation! Every workplace is unique and so are the employees working together. This is an interactive training that includes group discussions about how your team can be the best they can be!
Time Management for Classified
This training will be designed for each group of classified so it matches their needs. Learn how to maximize your time and workload by letting the work talk to you! Using the Make a Plan (MAP) system, learn how to focus on tasks and identify wasted time in old work habits.
Office Support (Clerical)
Updated! Best Practices for Student Records. This class will bring you up-to-date on the best practices for managing student records including what records are to be kept and for how long, required content and methods of release; records confidentiality and accessibility; to whom records can be released; when and what to transfer, the right to challenge, and updates on records required by the No Child Left Behind reporting and much more.
Front Desk Challenges with Results
You are in a highly visible role of being a receptionist, office support, registrar, or secretary. People will see you and think you are only there to take care of their needs. You will have an opportunity to visit about what goes on in your worksite with your contemporaries. You will learn strategies that will help you be your own advocate, manage time around chaos, and other survival tips.
Educational Assistants
Strategies for Students Who Learn Differently
Each of us is unique in the way we learn and process information. Our personal evolution has directed how we connect, how we are taught, and the process of our learning. Learn various strategies for working with skilled and academically challenged students. Bring your ideas and best practices to share with others in the class.
Being Assertive and Using Affirmations You Can Be Empowered
This class helps demure EA’s have more self confidence in the classroom. Spread your wings by learning teaching techniques that help encourage learning in diverse classrooms.
Supporting Building Blocks to Self Esteem
What do children need to grow toward that adult that likes herself and others? How do we help students feel confident about their skills and interactions with others? Learn about Maslow’s staircase of needs for high self-esteem and how you can help meet these basic needs for your students. Learn how to give praise kids can use. Learn how to listen to a child’s inner reality and emotion.
Teaching Support and Instructional Guidance for Educational Assistants
Many Educational Assistants working in schools have not been given the basics of instruction for teaching support from teachers and most assuredly not techniques of instructional guidance for children. This class offers an opportunity to review best practices in each of these techniques and an opportunity for participants to have a conversation with peers about how they conduct their duties, overcoming challenges, and celebrating what they do well.
Working with Students with Behavioral Challenges
This workshop discusses what emotional disturbances are and from where they stem. Discusses characteristics of emotional and behavioral problems and effective strategies for working with students who have behavioral and emotional challenges.
Custodial/Grounds/Trades/Maintenance
Boiler Operator Training Program - Certified Training
This training covers basic understanding of different types of boilers, safety and operational controls, water treatment fundamentals, and combustion and efficiency testing. Boiler operation targets the use of boiler logs. Each participant will receive a copy of the course training manual and certification.
Lift Certification
Certified training for forklift, scissor lift, and other lifts that includes classroom instruction and on site demonstration of lifts. OSHA approved instructor.
Indoor Air Quality: EPA and DEQ Approved
Are we making our kids sick? Learn why it is important to monitor your buildings for the quality of air students are subjected to. Each participant will receive a kit to take back to their building to start the conversation with a team to help keep on top of the environment students are being exposed to!
Lead Person Skills in the Workplace
Learn how to communicate effectively, and how to give direction, praise, and constructive criticism of another person’s work.
People Skills
As a lead person it is important to know how to interact with the people you are working with and to help them be the best they can be. Learn some of the most exciting coaching methods to help with maintaining a pleasant work environment and increase productivity in the workplace.
Job Skills Management
Having specific knowledge of the duties of those people you are the lead person for will help you better manage the workload. Learn steps to help prepare yourself to render the most efficient operation.
Transportation
Safety Behavior for the School Bus - Student Management
A new approach to student management and making students be responsible for their behavior.
Food Service
Safe Work Practices: Work Shouldn’t Hurt
This training will look at the ergonomic workplace and discuss issues that impact the way you do your job.
Great Meals Come From Your Kitchen
Meals need to be more than just healthy; they need to catch your eye, sizzle on a platter, and spice up the plate. Learn more about making great meals for the kitchen.
Train-the-Trainer Programs
On-the-Job Training
Are you responsible for on-the-job training? What better way to leave a legacy than to become a trainer! If you have been assigned as a mentor or coach this is the class for you. Learn how to communicate with your students giving instructions and feedback in a constructive way. Trainers need to exercise patience, to instruct and observe to ensure new employees understand the process and are successful in fulfilling their position.
Classroom Training
Have you been assigned to lead a presentation on a particular topic? Learn how to make a lesson plan and deliver the training with confidence. Learn to be an articulate public speaker! Call OSEA to find out more on how to become a trainer for your District.
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If you have a particular request for a class and/or you want additional information about professional development coursework identified in this notice call Connie De Yoe at 1-800-252-6732 ext. 3514 or email connie@osea.org. You can also go on the web to see when and where classes are scheduled at www.osea.org.
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