The Journey from Welcome Home to Now: Reunion, Reconnecting, Routine
The Journey from “Welcome Home’ to Now: Reunion, Reconnecting, Routine
The Journey from “Welcome Home’ to Now: Reunion, Reconnecting, Routine on-line course is designed to teach professionals who support military-connected children and youth the challenges and joys that children face during a time of reintegration following a family member’s return after an extended absence. Participants will learn strategies to help students adjust during the reunion, and during the journey of reconnecting and reestablishing family routine.
(Learning outcomes are still in the design phase)
Responding to the Military Child with Exceptional Needs
The Responding to the Military Child with Exceptional Needs course isdesigned to inform the
participants about military-connected children who have exceptional needs and the issues they mayface as they transition from school to school. Exceptional children are defined in this course as thosewho need either special education services or gifted education services to maximize their individualpotential.
The learning outcomes are:
- Identify the amplified transition challenges that impact mobile military-connected students with exceptional needs.
- Analyze processes that support transitioning children with exceptional needs.
- Design methods to ease transitions for military children with exceptional needs.
Participants will learn strategies for strengthening relationships, communication and hardiness in special needs children as they transition from school to school. Instructional delivery options for both special needs and gifted students will be covered with special emphasis on the importance of synchronization of services for exceptional needs military-connected children and youth.
Helping Military Children Discover Their S.P.A.R.C.: Strength, Potential, Aspirations, Resourcefulness,Confidence), (.6/6 hour face-to-face traditional training) - 1 day institute
The blended model of the MCEC Helping Military Children Discover Their S.P.A.R.C. Institute provides participants with the knowledge needed to prepare young people to develop hardiness skills to help them meet personal and professional goals through identification of their sparks and interests while developing a growth mindset.
The learning outcomes are:
• Explain what it means to thrive and the role of caring adults in helping children reach their full potential.
• Interpret current research on Thriving, and examine a specific four-step process to help adults support youth.
• Network with colleagues to develop strategies for promoting thriving attributes in children and youth.
• Analyze professional and personal practices as related to components of thrive and identify strategies and methodologies for application.
Participants will learn how to help students identify and develop their talents and interests, which can be utilized as catalysts to achieve personal growth. Participants will learn the difference between a fixed and growth mindset, and examine the impact mindset has on the ability, resilience, and stamina of children and youth when tasks or life events pose challenges. Participants will also learn strategies to use in helping young people to develop, manage, practice, and revise goals as they implement them to impact their academic world, extracurricular participation, or future career paths.
Supporting Military Children through School Transitions: Foundations
The MCEC® Supporting Military Children through School Transitions: Foundationsis an interactive professional development institute focusing on the military-connected child’s experience with transitions. It creates an environment for education, installation, and community professionals to have access to professional networks, technologies, resources, and support systems. The MCEC understands the importance in helping these professionals stay up to date on the dynamic and diverse K-12 school experience that impacts the transitioning student. Military lifestyle and culture, school transition perspectives, and identifying local transition challenges are some of the modules addressed.
The learning outcomes are:
- Explain how the elements of transition and separation impact the military family using print media, current research and participants’ experience
- Interpret data from MCEC research and institute networking that addresses school transitions
- Analyze current transition practices/programs for entering and exiting mobile students by utilizing research and networking activities
- Formulate a viable transition action plan to be used on individual campuses or at school district levels using focus group discussions, institute materials and instructor feedback
Supporting Military Children through School Transitions: Social/Emotional
The MCEC® Supporting Military Children through School Transitions: Social/Emotional Institute is the second interactive professional development institute and focuses on the social and emotional implications as they relate to the transitioning student. Deployment and separation, building confidence and resiliency, and supporting children through trauma and loss are some of the modules addressed in this institute.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe school transition concerns impacting mobile military students
- Interpret data from MCEC research and institute networking that addresses school transitions, especially the social and emotional aspects
- Evaluate the effects of deployment, separation, and loss
- Design methods to ease the challenges of transition that can be instituted locally