Responsive Teaching International Outreach offers four training opportunities designed to familiarize and train parents and professionals on procedures for implementing Responsive Teaching. Scheduled workshops are listed under the Scheduled Workshop link. To host a Responsive Teaching workshop contact Gerald Mahoney for additional information.

Training Activity/Location	Days	Number of Participants	Objectives
Responsive Teaching Parent mediated Early Intervention Awareness Workshop Central Location	1 Day	Up to 250 per Workshop	Familiarize EI providers with: Importance of Working with Parents Responsive Teaching Strategies and Rationale Impact of Responsive Teaching on Children’s Deveopment and Socio-Emotional Functioning Provide Information about RT Materials, Professional Training and Technical Assistance Opportunities
Getting Started Workshop On-Site	2 Days	8-30 per Workshop	Help Participants: Understand the research basis for Responsiveness See video/live demonstration of Responsive Teaching Strategies Videotape and Critique Themselves Using Strategies Develop a Plan for Participants To Gain Proficiency with Responsive Teaching Curriculum and Intervention Procedures
Field-Based Supervision and Clinical Problem Solving On-Site	To be arranged	6-20 per Workshop	Provide participants supervision regarding: Responsive Teaching Intervention Plans Procedures for Conducting Sessions Strategies for Addressing Parents’ Learning Style Participants Will Learn How to Adapt Responsive Teaching to the Unique Needs of Children and Families.
Professional Training Institute On-Site Cleveland, Ohio	40 Hours 5 or 10 day format	16-35 per Institute	Participants will become proficient in: Rationale for Relationship Focused Intervention Using RT to promote constructive learning in children with disabilities Using RT to promote communication abilities of children with disabilities Using RT to promote the social emotional functioning of children with disabilities Procedures for planning RT Intervention Sessions Procedures for conducting Intervention Sessions How to Use Strategies and Topics to Work With Parents and Children Together

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This awareness workshop is designed for professionals and parents who want to consider adopting this curriculum in their early intervention programs. The purpose of this workshop is to:

1. familiarize participants with research indicating the importance of working directly with parents
2. explain the rationale and procedures for Responsive Teaching
3. demonstrate this program through videotaped sessions
4. discuss the impact of Responsive Teaching on children and their parents
5. inform people about our training and dissemination activities.

This workshop can be approved for CEUs.

• (PDF) Outline for Awareness Workshop
• (PDF) Power Point Presentation for Awareness Workshop

This workshop is designed to help early intervention professionals and parents begin using Responsive Teaching as their intervention model. It is designed for up to thirty participants, including service providers (e.g., teachers, EI specialists, and related service providers), program administrators, and parents.

The purpose of the Getting Started Workshop is to help program staff develop the initial competencies they need to begin using Responsive Teaching. During this workshop participants will learn what each of the 66 Responsive Teaching strategies entail; practical considerations for demonstrating and encouraging parents to use these strategies; as well as procedures for planning and implementing Responsive Teaching intervention sessions.

Participants will observe videotaped presentations of service providers using Responsive Teaching strategies with children and conducting intervention sessions. On Day 2, participants will practice using Responsive Teaching strategies with children from their program and they will learn how to rate their own proficiency at using these strategies.

Content for this workshop will be tailored to accommodate the unique features and needs of local intervention programs.

• (PDF) Outline for Getting Started Workshop
• (PDF) Power Point presentation for Getting Started Workshop-Day 1
• (PDF) Power Point presentation for Getting Started Workshop-Day 2

This hands-on workshop is designed to provide intervention program staff with direct feedback and suggestions to improve their effectiveness at using of Responsive Teaching. It is designed for early intervention programs that have been using Responsive Teaching for at least six months. During this workshop RT Outreach staff will observe participants conducting Responsive Teaching sessions. After these observations, RT staff will work individually with program staff to:

1. review Responsive Teaching Intervention Plans
2. evaluate participant’s clinical strengths and needs
3. provide suggestions to enhance their effectiveness.

At the end of each of the two days of this workshop RT Trainers will meet with the entire EI staff for one to two hours to lead group discussions about their experiences using Responsive Teaching. The purpose of this is to help program staff articulate problems encountered with this model and to help them develop confidence they possess the skills necessary to come up with solutions.

This workshop addresses issues that commonly occur in implementing this model such as:

1. dealing with differences in adult learning style
2. strategies to establish rapport and engage parents more actively in the intervention process
3. building on family strengths
4. respecting family culture and values while helping parents achieve the outcomes they desire for their children
5. the change process
6. addressing the unique developmental needs of children

Content for this workshop will be tailored to the unique features and needs of local intervention programs.

This 40 hour course is offered for professionals who are currently involved in providing early intervention services to young children who have developmental risks or disabilities and their parents. There are four purposes to this course. The first is for participants to become familiar the relationship focused approach to early intervention, particularly related to the research and theoretical foundations for this approach and how this approach compares with other contemporary models of developmental intervention.

The second purpose is to demonstrate how contemporary child development theories can be used to explain the full range of behaviors exhibited by children with disabilities during the early childhood period. Observations and case studies will be used to illustrated the relevance of constructivist principles of cognitive development, communication theories of language development, and attachment, temperament and other developmental social emotional constructs to children’s social emotional functioning and well being.

The third purpose of this course is for participants to become familiar with the methods and procedures of an evidence-based developmental/relational intervention curriculum called Responsive Teaching. Participants will learn the procedures for using this intervention model with parents to enhance three areas of children’s developmental functioning: cognition, communication and social emotional well being.

The fourth purpose for this course is for participants to develop and share their plans for implementing Responsive Teaching in a variety of early intervention systems with parents and families and families from diverse cultural and social economic backgrounds both with children who have disabilities and children with developmental risks.

• (PDF) Syllabus for Institute