The Waverley Academy are delivering a free teacher training workshop at their Dublin premises on Monday the 2nd of July. The workshop is aimed at those who want to start teaching at a basic level, or for those interested in pursuing teaching careers in  the Hair, Beauty or Fitness sectors.

This fascinating workshop titled “ Essential Criteria For Teaching Adults” will introduce you to the essential skills and knowledge needed to deliver quality learning and will provide you with an excellent understanding of modern day methods for delivering classes in the hair, beauty and fitness sectors. It will also provide you with an insight into the content and sylabi of industry standard teacher training programmes.  Topics covered will include:

• Understanding how adults learn
• Modern-day teaching techniques
• Educational psychology in adult learning
• Designing and planning your classes
• Delivery methods and techniques
• Developing your confidence for teaching
• Technology and the future of adult learning

Principle Derek O Kelly says “ The workshop will be a great opportunity for anyone thinking of pursuing a career in teaching, or for those who want to teach at a basic level. We’ve been at the cutting edge of developments in teaching adults over the past 20 years and would like to share some of this knowledge with others. The workshop is guaranteed to be informative and engaging, with the emphasis on interaction, discussion, and acquiring of basic skills and knowledge for teaching adults .”

About The Trainer

The workshop will be delivered by Derek O Kelly, principal and director of learning at The Waverley Academy. He has been training trainers for more than 20 years in the further education sectors. Derek is a graduate of NUI Galway Adult Ed.and is currently working with mainstream educators in shaping the future of adult education.

Venue

The workshop will take place in the Waverley Academy’s Dublin Naas road venue on Monday the 2nd of July from 11am to 3pm.

Booking in advance is essential as places are limited.

How To Reserve Your Place

Although attendance at the workshop is free there is a €50 fee required to reserve your place. This will be returned after you attend the workshop. This is to ensure that places will be only reserved for those who are serious about attending. The fee is non refundable if you don’t attend. Places can be reserved with credit/laser cards or by paypal via our website

Please call 01-4089769 Or visit www.academy.ie  to book your place

It will be the most comprehensive course of its nature in the country and will include advanced makeup techniques in Fashion, Photographic, Catwalk, Period, Special Occasion, Media, Magazine, Cover Photo, and Bridal makeup.

The course will also include sampling and working with MAC makeup and other top makeup brands such as, Inglot, Rimmel and Loreal.

Places will be limited and booking early is advisable. Call 01-4089769 or visit  www.academy.ie for more information

We have had lots of calls to the Waverley Academy office over the last few months from persons wondering if they could access funding to do any of our courses. So I decided to do some research and contact the various state agencies to get some information. I thought it would be a reasonably simple peace of research, but there doesn’t seem to be a cohesive policy on the issuing of training/education funds, although I do hope the following information will be of some help.<!–more–>

Good news

The good news is that there is funding available, but it very much depends on individual circumstances. If you are unemployed you should sign on at your local dole office and register with FAS at your local FAS office in order to try and access funding. It would seem that two categories giving preference for funding are persons unemployed, or persons in receipt of some form of social welfare benefit. So if you are looking to retrain, up skill or return to education, two of the main offices that you can contact are

Local employment services, known as LES offices ( also distinguished by the “Obair” logo). Theses offices offer a wide range of services from career planning to job searching and also have a role in accessing funding. It would also seem that they can advise you if you are entitled to funding and how and where to get it. I would think this would be a very good starting point and a quick phone call or visit might save you a lot of work. (contact details at bottom of article)

Local social welfare offices, which have a ‘jobs facilitator’. Social welfare also have a role to play in issuing funding for training/education which is mainly via the local welfare offices and the jobs facilitator. You can be referred by social welfare or FAS to the jobs facilitator or you can contact them directly and make an appointment. (contact details at the end of this article)

The role of FAS and Department of  Social Protection

In recent times, many of the services provided by FAS have been transferred to the Department of Social Protection, however many of the services, offices, personal and programs  remain the same.

One of the main functions is still to provide training for its clients. They also play a role in assisting with career planning via their guidance officers in local offices. The main priority of FAS at local level would be to help you identify a course or career which they can provide through their own training programmes. However in some cases, they may provide you with funding or help you access funding, for courses which they do not provide, or if there is a long waiting list for a course which they provide. (see bottom of article for contact details)

Important

Irrespective of which agency you choose to contact, it is important that you have some sort of a ‘career plan’ that incorporates the course which you are looking for funding for. The person who is issuing, or making recommendations for the funds to be issued, will need to know that the course will enhance your career or employment prospects, or lead to self employment, and may also form part of a progressive education pathway.

Contacts

www.localemploymentservices.ie

When you enter the home page look to the left hand menu on click on ‘les offices’ for list of contacts.

http://www.localemploymentservices.ie

When you enter the home page look at the menu at the top of the page and click on ‘contact us’, this brings you to a list of services , the first one is ‘social welfare local and branch offices’, click on this for list of contacts

www.fas.ie

When you enter the FAS home page click on ‘job seeker’ , when you enter job seeker section read down through the text and click on ‘fas office’ for list of local offices.

I do hope this information will be of help to you and good luck with your efforts.

Talk soon

D O K

If your interested in a career in teaching adults in the hair, beauty, fitness or complementary therapy sectors it’s probably never been more important that you get some formal training, and here are some of the reasons why.

The landscape for teaching adults in Ireland has significantly changed over the past couple of years and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Learning has become more structured with the introduction of the national qualifications framework and ‘outcomes’ based learning.

Advances in educational psychology and the understanding of how adults learn has also meant that trainers can adapt a more ‘scientific’ approach to how they deliver education. And so, in order to become familiar with all the changes and deliver outcomes based training, it has never been more important to embark on an industry standard teacher education program.

It would also seem that employers in educatioal institutes (public and private) will be obliged to ensure that teaching staff have suitable qualifications as most of their programs will be ‘outcomes based’. These types of programmes can not be delivered ‘ad hoc’ and require skills and knowledge which includes some of the following

• An understanding of the values that underpin good teaching practice
• An understanding of the adult learning principals and theories
• An understanding of the educational, and futher educational system in Ireland
• An understanding of learner motivations and profiles
• Curriculum design and lesson planning
• Developing learner aims and outcomes
• Effective delivery mechanisms
• Assessment and evaluation of learning
• The role of technology in adult education

It’s also quiet an exciting time in teaching adults, as these new approaches and standards will make it a lot more easier to design and deliver education which is a lot more rewarding for teachers and learners.

If you are interested in a career in teaching please contact us on 01-4089769 or click on the link below to view our teaching programmes in our Old Naas Road venue and Cork

Click here to view the details of our ITEC Teacher Training Course

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

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