DSEA Training Notebook

DSEA offers many training programs. The specific training programs which are available through DSEA are described below. Any of these training programs can be scheduled by any local association or group of members who desire such training by contacting their local Uniserv Director. The current sessions planned already for this year can be seen by clicking here.

Association Representative (AR) - Focuses on the skills necessary for AR's to perform their role more effectively and efficiently.

Association Representative training for new AR's - reviews the various roles of the AR and offers practical tips about their role in the development of strong local associations.

Assertive Discipline - learn an active classroom management process that has helped may members gain better control of their classrooms.

Assertiveness Training - provides practical hands-on techniques to help association members and leaders deal with difficult persons and situations.

Bargaining Behaviors I, II, III, IV, V - investigates, through simulations and lecture/discussions, those behaviors which influence the bargaining process.

Building School, Family and Community Relationships - learn how to develop long-term relations among groups interested in improving public education.

Change Process - investigates the regular, rhythmic cycle of change, the predictable behaviors of persons experiencing major and minor changes in their lives and strategies for adapting to a changing environment.

Collaborative Bargaining - get an overview of a bargaining process that is being modeled in some districts in Delaware and across the nation. THe process focuses on interests rather than positions in an effort to get the parties to jointly find solutions that will lead to an agreement.

Collaborative Problem Solving - Learn some of the basic skills and behaviors necessary for people to work together in a variety of circumstances.

Conflict Management - Learn powerful techniques for dealing with conflict in the workplace and in your personal life.

Delaware Instructional Improvement Model - Reviews the skills, knowledge and teaching strategies, upon which the Delaware Performance Appraisal Model is based, to improve classroom instruction.

Delaware Performance Appraisal System (DPAS) - Contact your UniServ Director and schedule training for your building or local association - for new teachers especially - in what to know about how they will be evaluated. Click here for an overview of DPAS

Grievance - This training offers participants the skills and knowledge necessary to identify, write and process local grievances based upon alleged violations of their local negotiated agreements.

Leadership Skills - What attitudes and skills are necessary to be an effective leader? Learn how to better understand and work with people while developing the essential elements of leadership.

Legislative Candidate Interview and Recommendation Training - Provides the skills and knowledge necessary for local associations to interview and recommend candidates for the General Assembly.

Local Legislative Contact Training - Presents local association leaders with an overview of the legislative process in Delaware as well as practical hints for the implementation of a local legislative action program.

Marketing Association Membership - Learn how to design and implement a membership program with particular emphasis on a year-yound program and early recruiting.

Member Involvement - Presents strategies for implementing a successful member involvement program within a local association including the recruitment, placement, motivation and retention of volunteers.

Member/Voter Contact - Offers successful strategies for contacting members or voters and motivating them into action.

Newsletter Editor's Training - Gives a practical hand-on experience in writing and editing a local association newsletter.

Referendum Campaigns - Provides tips and strategies for organizing a successful local school referendum campaigns.

School Board Elections - Shows local associations how to recruit qualified candidates for local school boards and how to organize and implement successful campaign strategies to get them elected.

School Finance - Provides a basic overview of the Delaware school finance system and how to analyze a local school district budget.

Seven Multiple Intelligences - Gives participants ideas how they are already engaging and can further each child's full intellectual potential. (Based upon Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences).

Shared Decision-making - Offers an introduction to the basics of shared decision-making. Find out what shared decision-making is, what it is not and how it might work in your school.

Stress Management - Offers a holistic approach to the identification, management and reduction of stress.

Team Building - Provides local association groups or schools the opportunity to learn and implement the skills and knowledge necessary to work together as an effective team.

Training for Trainers - Provides strategies for training adult learners. (By invitation only).

Vital Link - A series of modules dealing with leadership skills.

Why Politics - Offers an overview why the association is involved in political action.