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Comment by Rick Rosen on June 2, 2011 at 7:31pm

ALLIANCE OFFERS NEW BOOKLET ON MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS AND 2011 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The Alliance for Massage Therapy Education has just released a 16-page booklet that gives all the details on the new dues and membership structure, and an enhanced suite of benefits. It also details the educational program for the Alliance 2011 Annual Conference, to be held August 18-20 in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina.

You can access the booklet from the sidebar on any page of the Alliance website a href="http://www.afmte.org>">http://www.afmte.org>; or from this direct link:

a href="http://www.flipdocs.com/showbook.aspx?ID=10000677_686810>">http://www.flipdocs.com/showbook.aspx?ID=10000677_686810>;

Until July 1, you can get a $100 early registration discount on the Conference. Alliance members receive an additional $100 discount on the registration fee.

We hope you will join us for an important gathering of the education community, as we explore this year's theme of "Bringing Teaching to the Next Level".

Rick Rosen, Executive Director
Alliance for Massage Therapy Education

Comment by Pete Whitridge on May 19, 2011 at 8:07pm

Hello Educators! I thought you would be interested in this posting. The Alliance for Massage Therapy Education has rolled out 2 benefit programs for AFMTE members. One is a job board and the other is an online CE portal for teachers, administrators and CE Providers. Here is the link: http://www.massageprofessionals.com/forum/topics/alliance-launches-...

Comment by Lauriann Greene, CEAS on March 20, 2011 at 8:25am

Congratulations to Rick Rosen - well deserved!

Comment by Kris Bour on March 20, 2011 at 7:54am

This weekend I had the privlage of taking a workshop CE for massage instructors.  Laura Putnum from Motion Infusion (http://www.motioninfusion.com/) put this together for the AMTA Spring Conference in Nashville.  WOW!  It was amazing.  The presentation of material pulled together so much of the hodge podge online stuff I have tried to work with in the past to become a better teacher.  If you instructors struggle because they have had no or little formal training in teaching, I highly reccomend this workshop!  It was very, very helpful.  We need more of these types of workshops for teachers in our profession!

Comment by Tina Holt on March 4, 2011 at 5:22am

What is your massage story?

We would love for you to share how you got started in massage therapy and the impact it has made on your life. Please feel free to be honest share from your heart!

www.massage-education.com/massage-stories.html

Comment by Rick Rosen on December 26, 2010 at 12:31am

ALLIANCE LEADER HONORED AS ONE OF "TOP 10 PEOPLE IN INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE FOR 2010"

Rick Rosen, Executive Director of the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education was recently selected as one of the Top 10 People in Integrative Medicine / Integrative Health Care by The Integrator Blog. Published and edited by John Weeks, Executive Director of ACCAHC - the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care, the
blog is one of the leading sources of news and information about the
domain of integrative medicine. The "Top 10 People" list is compiled
from recommendations submitted by the editorial advisory board of The Integrator Blog.

Rosen was chosen for this honor because of the pivotal role he has played in launching and building the Alliance, and for what the organization represents to the field of massage therapy
and integrative health care in general. In this annual feature in The Integrator Blog, Weeks wrote:

Rick Rosen, MA, LMBT
Developing an Organization Dedicated to Advancing Massage Education

Rick Rosen is a North Carolina massage therapist and co-owner of the
Body Therapy Institute. For the last 18 months, Rosen has diligently
worked to fill an important institutional gap in the massage field;
namely, creating an organization dedicated entirely to advancing massage
education. Rosen's Alliance for Massage Therapy Education, which he
serves as executive director, aggregated its first members and held its
founding conference in June 2010 where a governing board of respected
massage educators was elected. In November, the Alliance announced
results of a survey of over 300 educators which found strong support for
investing in the teaching abilities of massage educators. Subsequently,
the Alliance published a white paper through which it kicked off a National Teacher Education Standards Project.
Rosen was inducted earlier this year into the Massage Therapy Hall of
Fame, perhaps, in the spirit of the 2008 Obama peace prize, out of hope
for what will come rather than services already accomplished. Happily,
steps the Alliance has taken under Rosen's direction suggest that he may
fare better in his promise to massage educators than Obama has fared in
peace-making.

Comment by Ariana Vincent, LMT, MTI, BCTMB on December 24, 2010 at 2:01am

Here's a link to an educator who is a wonderful role model in the massage therapy community, Gil Hedley: http://www.gilhedley.com/ghschedule.php

Comment by Noel Norwick on December 17, 2010 at 1:48pm

Since this is or should be about vocational teaching, I'm surprised that the suggested teacher competency standards doesn't include categories documenting higher starting salaries and annual incomes earned by graduates/students of the relatively more vs the relatively less competent teachers.

Comment by Ariana Vincent, LMT, MTI, BCTMB on December 17, 2010 at 12:55pm

National Massage Teacher Competency Standards to be Created

 

The Alliance for Massage Therapy Education (AFMTE) announced recently that it will begin to develop a National Teacher Education Standards Project in order to create competency standards for teachers across the continuum of entry-level, continuing education and advanced training programs.

The AFMTE is an independent voice, advocate and resource for the community of massage therapy schools and educators.

According to an AFMTE press release, a national survey conducted in November by the AFMTE indicated strong support within the educational community for this initiative, with 80.4 percent of respondents agreeing that competency-based national teacher training standards are needed, while 6.8 percent disagreed.

The project will be carried out through a series of five phases:

1. The AFMTE Professional Standards Committee will continue working on identification of the core competencies of effective and successful teaching.

2. Once the

knowledge, skills and abilities are defined, a baseline teacher-training curriculum will be created.

3. Training resources will be identified and developed.

4. To ensure that teachers have achieved the competencies, a certification program will be established.

5. The final step will involve working with national accrediting commissions and state regulatory agencies to incorporate these teacher education standards.

The AFMTE's leaders estimate this project with take between five and 10 years to complete.

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(Thanks to Mike Hinkle for posting this link previously)

 

Article posted by Ariana Vincent, Ariana Institute, http://www.arianainstitute.com/online.htm

 

Comment by Ariana Vincent, LMT, MTI, BCTMB on December 17, 2010 at 12:49pm

Four Characteristics of Outstanding Teachers

By: Maryellen Weimer in Effective Teaching Strategies

The quest to identify the ingredients, components, and qualities of effective instruction has been a long one. Starting in the 1930s, researchers sought to identify the common characteristics of good teachers. Since then, virtually everybody who might have an opinion has been asked, surveyed, or interviewed.

Students have been asked at the beginning, middle, and end of their college careers. Alumni have been asked years after graduating. Colleagues within departments and across them have been asked, as have administrators, from local department heads to college presidents. So many studies have been done that there are studies of the studies.

Despite this large database, researchers continue to explore this issue and, surprisingly, find new groups to ask and new ways to analyze the results. Even more amazing is how much overlap and consistency there is across these many studies, and the study we’re about to highlight here is no exception.

The researchers studied a group of 35 faculty members who had received a Presidential Teaching Award at a public university in the Midwest. To be considered for the award, teachers had to write a 1,500-word essay describing their teaching philosophies and teaching goals. Using a qualitative methodology (hermeneutics), researchers analyzed these statements with the goal of identifying the factors that made these teachers successful. The researchers found four categories of comments characteristic of all these award-winning teachers.

1. Presence: “The term presence for this study is defined as a deeper level of awareness that allows thoughts, feelings, and actions to be known, developed, and harmonized within. Presence is also the essence of a relationship and of interpersonal communication.” (p. 13) Illustrating this particular category were comments in the essays indicating how important it is for teachers to get to know their students. “The classroom should not be a sea of faceless forms,” writes one teacher. (p. 13) Another observes, “In helping students achieve their highest potential, I realize I must cherish their individuality—their special needs, interests, and rich life experiences.” (p. 13)

2. Promotion of learning: These teachers also wrote of the importance of student learning and their roles in promoting it. They held their students and themselves to high standards, seeing students’ work in their courses and programs as preparation for lifelong learning. They also wrote of the need for students to do more than just memorize material. “Mere possession of scientific knowledge without the ability to apply it is of limited value in nursing practice,” wrote one nurse educator. (p. 14) Equally important was their shared view that promoting learning goes beyond content acquisition. Education is also about personal development, and teachers have a role in promoting that kind of learning as well.

3. Teachers as learners: These exemplary teachers described themselves as learners, each making it a priority to keep their teaching current. “As teachers, we must continue to re-engineer our curriculum, experiment with new and different methods of delivering course content, and bring emerging technologies into our classrooms.” (p. 15) These teachers valued opportunities to revise course content, to teach new courses, and to work on degree-program curricula.

4. Enthusiasm: “Effective teaching presupposes a command of the material and facility in communicating it with clarity, grace, fairness, and humor. But most of all it supposes enthusiasm.” (p. 15) This enthusiasm starts with a love of the content, but it goes beyond that and includes a genuine love of teaching and a passion for students and their learning. “I am also concerned that my students develop a passion for learning that goes on well after the course has ended.” (p. 15)

In their conclusion, the researchers note that “there is no formula for successful teaching. Each professor is unique and has an individual educational philosophy and teaching goals.” (p. 16) Even so, good teachers share common commitments and characteristics—they do in this study and have done so in many others as well.

Reference: Rossett, J. and Fox, P. G. (2009). Factors related to successful teaching by outstanding professors: An interpretive study. Journal of Nursing Education, 48 (1), 11-16.

Excerpted from Qualities of Successful Teaching, The Teaching Professor, 24.1 (2010): 6.

(Note: Thanks to Whitney Lowe for posting this on Facebook)

 

Posted by: Ariana Vincent, Ariana Institute, http://www.arianainstitute.com/online.htm

 

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