Inspiring Peak Performance Trainer’s Guide

Description

This guide gives you the tools you need to deliver a successful workshop on how early childhood administrators can transform their programs into professional learning communities. The workshop is built on the concepts and exercises presented in Inspiring Peak Performance: Competence, Commitment, and Collaboration. It presents five strategies—developmental supervision, teacher induction, individual learning plans, peer learning teams, and 360-degree feedback—that together provide a road map for directors seeking to build teacher competence, strengthen staff commitment, and expand opportunities for collaboration. The guide provides step-by-step instructions for planning and presenting a dynamic, informative workshop that will help participants understand the vital role they play in inspiring peak performance.

This trainer’s guide includes the following:

• An overview of the workshop goals, audience, and learning outcomes
• The essentials of workshop design including training principles, room setup, timing and pacing of activities, and a list of equipment and supplies needed
• Workshop at a glance— a summary of the topics, activities, materials, and timing for this one-day workshop
• 17 Learning activities with notes on how to implement them
• 3 follow-up assignments for participants to help make the concepts stic
• 9 handouts to reproduce for participants
• 6 sample flip-chart pages
• 36 slides for a PowerPoint presentation