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Course Information
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Course overview
Understanding what the behaviour of children is actually communicating will help you to engage them with life and learning. Ultimately, this will result in better outcomes for all children.
The Thrive Licensed Practitioner course for primary school aged children will introduce you to the Thrive Approach. It will show you how to be and what to do in response to children's varying, and often complex, social and emotional needs. The course will demonstrate how Thrive-Online, our mapping, measuring and monitoring tool, can be used to profile whole classes and individual children, and to identify strategies and action plans that will support healthy emotional and social development. You will also be presented with a raft of practical activities. These will help you develop a relational stance and help children become ready to learn.
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Suitable for
This course, leading to Thrive Licensed Practitioner status, is ideal for anyone working closely with primary school aged children in a teaching, healthcare or social care role. It is particularly beneficial to professionals with pastoral responsibilities, including safeguarding, special educational needs, SEMH education or a tutor role.
There are no previous qualifications required to undertake this course, other than being comfortable with day-to-day use of a laptop or tablet, having a role working with children and wanting to make a difference.
Price also includes: Thrive membership, professional licensing on successful completion of the course, plus two CPD webinars in your first year.
Specific requirements: To be professionally licensed you will need to be an authorised user of Thrive-Online through an annual whole-school subscription. This subscription needs to be in place for day one of your training. Full attendance is required to gain Licensed status.
If you need to reschedule your course attendance because you have Covid or have to isolate, the first rearrangement is free, a subsequent rearrangement will incur an admin fee of £50 plus VAT and any further rescheduling will be charged at £100 plus VAT.
For settings that would like to commission a face-to-face training session, there is a flat rate charge of £300 per trainer per day (or part thereof) plus VAT.
Please note prices are for courses starting on or after 1 September 2022.
Course content
The Thrive Childhood Licensed Practitioner course covers:
- The development and functioning of the brain and nervous system.
- The six developmental stages of social and emotional development.
- The principles of attachment theory.
- Key strategies for building supportive relationships.
- The role of the arts, play and creativity in supporting social and emotional development.
- How fear, anger, loss, change, separation, bereavement and joy can interrupt learning.
- Instruction and practice in using Thrive-Online to profile and create targeted action plans for whole groups and individual children, and measure progress.
Course structure
The course is structured into 2 e-learning modules with 2 e-mentoring sessions and 12 virtual training sessions, each 3 hours long:
- Virtual training session 1 – Introducing the Thrive Approach
- Virtual training session 2 – Emotions, why they matter and Being
- Virtual training session 3 – Relationships and how they can get in the way
- Virtual training session 4 – Learning about Doing and Thinking
- Virtual training session 5 – Power and Identity, hooks and triggers
- Virtual training session 6 – Relationships and Skills and Structure
- E-mentoring session 1
- Virtual training session 7 – Understanding behaviour
- Virtual training session 8 – Deepening practice
- Virtual training session 9 – Being the source of real change
- Virtual training session 10 – Understanding fear and anger as interruptions to learning
- E-mentoring session 2
- Virtual training session 11 – Understanding loss and change as interruptions to learning
- Virtual training session 12 – Joy, success and becoming a Thrive Licensed Practitioner
Course outcomes
Successful completion of this course leads to Thrive Childhood Licensed Practitioner status. You will have acquired the additional skills and knowledge to implement the Thrive Approach to benefit all students (right-time), and be able to work with individual students needing additional support (reparative).
To maintain your Licensed status you need to attend Thrive CPD courses and actively use Thrive-Online. The annual criteria is to gain 10 CPD points and profile/re-profile a minimum of three individuals.