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Three Phase Training of Trainers (TOT) The training process is broken into three, one-week phases with several months between each phase to allow trainees to practice what they have learned.
Phase 1 Focuses on development philosophy and how to start a CDE Program. An emphasis is placed on teaching others.
Phase 2 Focuses on developing teaching materials, methods, and curriculum. An emphasis is placed on follow-up and relationships.
Phase 3 Focuses on evaluation, multiplication, management, and project expansion. An emphasis is placed on mentoring others.
The committee is trained in six, three-hour sessions, learning to take responsibility for what happens in their program. The training gives the committee members a clear understanding of how to establish a strong moral character. By training the committee first, the members begin to take more responsibility and leadership, and choose better people to be trained as CDEs.
Group involvement is a key factor. The methods used are highly participatory teaching techniques using role plays, stories, songs, visuals, demonstrations, and large and small group discussions. Volunteers go through 40 – 50 sessions, each including a physical/health and moral value lessons. The training is spread over three to six months. Each day they receive one physical and one moral subject. They then put into practice what they have learned as they visit in neighbors’ homes. After the initial training is completed, they receive two to three days each month of additional training for the next twelve months.
Over 1,000 lesson plans are available. Each lesson plan has been designed to present the physical and moral truths using a high degree of learner participation. Each lesson begins with a problem-posing role play or picture, which helps the learner to discover the problem and its importance. The participants are involved in discovering the causes and solutions to the identified problem. Everything they learn, they then put into action by sharing it with their neighbors.
Picture BookletsThe main job of the CDEs is to be a model of good health practices in their homes. They are also to visit their neighbors, sharing what they have learned. They can use physical picture booklets on various topics when they share with their neighbors.
Physical Booklets AIDS First Aid Birth Spacing Food 3x3 (Nutrition) Colds Immunizations Dairy Cattle Husbandry Malaria Dengue Fever Oral Hygiene Diarrhea Scabies Eye Problems Worms Feeding Children
The booklets are used as a review of the teaching on a given topic. The CDEs practice using the booklet with each other and are observed by the Training Team in a simulated exercise. They are then given an assignment to share the booklet with at least three of their neighbors.
Materials have been developed to be used by the CDEs as they mentor and lead their own groups. The materials address successes and failures, being there for one another, and studying the various Holy Books.
How to Integrate Physical and Moral Values
We have found that it is one thing to see
the importance of a program that integrates both physical and moral
truths, but it is another matter to implement such a combination. The
integration of moral truth into a physical outreach is a way of thinking,
which must be constantly reinforced. It is, therefore, important to spend as much time on teaching others and mentoring as on physical subjects. One-half of our class time is spent on physical teaching and the other half on moral teaching. The danger is that CDEs may spend all their time meeting physical needs, which are highly visible, to the exclusion of meeting moral needs.
The trainers must be good models of an integrated ministry by teaching both physical and moral value topics. They should expect the CDE will do the same and not specialize in a specific area.
We must expect moral value integration and actively address worldviews which prevent physical, emotional, and mental changes. Physical change without “heart” change is not long-lasting. As we see moral changes taking place, excitement and momentum grow.
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Training
is critical for the success of any CDE Program. All of our training is
highly participatory, no matter which group is undergoing training. There
is a considerable use of problem-posing situations through role plays or
pictures to start the discussion. Small group discussion is widely used as
well as songs, stories, and demonstrations.
