Two Levels of PowerPath Certification: Basic and Professional
PowerPath’s Basic Certification series and Professional Certification series have been designed as transformational learning experiences. PowerPath courses are performance-based and require participants to practice and document implementation of the skills that are being trained. To obtain certification, course participants must submit case studies demonstrating knowledge and implementation of the PowerPath process, conduct Share the Power trainings, create a Success Course, design an implementation plan, and use Participatory Learning technologies to form learning communities.
Basic Certification
PowerPath’s Basic Certification targets the core best-practice knowldge and essential, research-based skills of the PowerPath Process. These skills focus on engagement, the basic screenings, and the SMARTER intervention.
The Basic Certification series can be facilitated by PowerPath Coaches – individuals who hold a PowerPath Professional Certificate, are currently working in a service delivery system implementing PowerPath, and who have participated in PowerPath Coach training.
The Basic Certification series includes five days of face-to-face classes in addition to participation in webinars and conference calls.
Professional Certification
The Professional Certification Series goes beyond the basic screenings and system utilization. The Professional Certification series focuses on administration of PowerPath’s complete information processing battery, the Assessment of Phonological Skills, and implementation of PowerPath’s components for persons who are not native speakers of English.
Professional Certification Series delves into brain functioning, managing emotional issues, creating a learning community and use of PowerPath in diverse education and workplace situations.
Both Certification courses model innovative facilitation techniques that can be transferred into learning and workplace situations.
Annual PowerPath Skill Update and Reunion sessions keep PowerPath users informed on timely improvements to the system, research findings, implementation opportunities, and skill development. As a community of practice, PowerPath professionals can network within their own state and with other PowerPath professionals and sites in 44 states.
PowerPath Coaches
To be eligible to be a PowerPath Coach, individuals must hold a current Professional Certificate, take a leadership role to fully implement PowerPath into their service delivery system for a minimum of one year, and support one or more of PowerPath’s field-based researcher projects.
Coaches must also attend an annual PowerPath Coach Retreat, follow the strict curriculum for facilitating the Basic Certification series, and become a member of the National PowerPath Coach Network.
A PowerPath Coach can offer the PowerPath Basic Certification series to small groups of new PowerPath users. With the support of their parent organization, a coach may assist their organization to become a PowerPath model site and/or operate as a PowerPath Hub.
Coaches work together with their coach colleagues to create best practices, recommend modifications in the Basic Certification curriculum, and often present together at national and state conferences.
Programs that support staff to become coaches receive discounts on many of PowerPath’s materials and software. Coaches play a valuable role in development of new PowerPath components, sustaining a system’s implementation of PowerPath, and expansion of the PowerPath services.
Share the Power Training
Share the Power Training is a complete inservice training package that can be offered by individuals holding either a Basic or Professional Certificate. The target audiences for Share the Power include:
- Learners, clients, workers
- Instructional staff or workplace supervisors
- Multidisciplinary staff or interdepartmental professionals
- Community partners
This three-hour training includes two sessions:
1. How brains process information to learn
2. Using PowerPath intervention and recommended strategies to maximize learning and workplace success.
Empowering Learners and Tutors
The PowerPath Empowering Learners and Tutors Certification Training is designed for literacy and other tutoring programs. This comprehensive training targets programs that serve both native English speakers and English Speaker of Other Languages (ESOL).
In this six-hour training, both the learner and tutor are trained together to use PowerPath screening results to maximize learning successes and empower learners to take charge of their learning.
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