AS A RESULT OF THE ELECTION, WE HAVE DECIDED TO POSTPONE THE FEB 2025 OFFERING OF THIS COURSE TO A LATER DATE. FUTURE OFFERINGS WILL BE ANNOUNCED HERE AND ON OUR EMAIL LIST, OR YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE TO BE NOTIFIED DIRECTLY.
About
This course takes some of the essential components of Dr. Green’s master’s level teaching methods & curriculum design courses and makes them accessible for folks outside of higher education. Course content includes: assessing learners’ needs, setting learning objectives, determining scope and sequence, applying learning theory to lesson plan design, climate setting, increasing learner engagement, answering common questions, handling resistance, creating post-session feedback surveys, and more.
Whether you are a facilitator who has never had a chance to engage in formal training about the theory, art, and practice of teaching, or it’s been a minute and you are looking for a refresher, this course helps facilitators expand and sharpen their educational tools for teaching trans content to adult participants. People of all gender identities and expressions are welcome, and we strive to create a learning space where we can all show up as our true selves.
Timing
This course is held over 4 days, meeting from 12 PM – 4:30 PM ET | 9 AM – 1:30 PM PT. Each day includes approximately 50 minutes of break time, including a 30 minute midpoint break.
Format
This course will be facilitated via Zoom, and additional reading and learning materials will be provided via Google Drive. During our time together you can anticipate that a majority of the time will be spent in the large group, which will include guided lecture and group discussion. We will also engage in small group work via breakout rooms, along with some time for individual reflection/exercises.
Registration Survey
To help us better tailor the course and meet the needs of our participants, we require participants to complete a registration survey. Once you have purchased your ticket on Eventbrite, you will receive confirmation from Eventbrite, along with an email from info@transaffirming.co – that email will include a link to a registration survey that you will need to complete in order to finalize your attendance.
Accessibility
We recognize that each learner’s needs may be different, especially for an interactive learning course, and we invite participants to share accessibility requests on our registration survey.
What we are able to offer for this course:
- A Moderator for support around technical issues
- Auto-generated captions and transcripts by Zoom
- A majority of the time all participants are muted
- We use noise suppression and minimize auditory overload to the best of our abilities
- We respect folks needing to have cameras off or limited camera time
- We respect folk’s need for self-care, including moving around, eating, using fidget toys, taking notes, lying down, etc.
- 30 days access to recordings of each day, with transcript & autocaption – however we do ask that folks who sign up plan to attend the course, rather than reserving a seat to watch the recording without attending.
With enough notice/pending the budget and availability of those we partner with, we can provide ASL Interpretation.
Cost
We strive to balance keeping our courses accessible to folks of different economic situations, while still covering our costs and paying ourselves fairly for our work. When folks who are able to pay more do, it makes it possible for us to keep reduced rate and student/early career seats available.
Full Rate tickets are $650, Sliding Scale rate tickets are $525, and Student/Early Career rate tickets are $415. There is a $50 processing fee if requesting CEs. You can pay directly through Eventbrite, or you can contact us (info@transaffirming.co) for an invoice to pay by check. Note: We do not pass on Eventbrite’s platform and processing fees to you.
Continuing Education (CE) Credits
This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 14 hours of CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. AASECT CEs are accepted by many mental health and medical credentialing bodies – please check with your board about how AASECT credits can be transferred. (Each board is different, and we would never want to misguide you, so we are unable to advise about whether or not your board will accept AASECT credits.) These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. There is a $50 CE processing fee for this course.
You must register for CEs in order to receive them for this offering. Before you check out on Eventbrite, you will be provided with the option to add CEs to your registration. (It is located as an additional option below each of the registration levels.)
Course Policies, Terms & Conditions
You may review our course policies below and our terms of participation here. By registering for this event, you agree to accept these terms. (We have established these terms and conditions as a means of legal protection in the current socio-political climate, and appreciate your understanding.)
Frequently Asked Questions
Below are answers to some of our most common questions about our course and course policies.
Nope. This course is open to people of all genders.
No, but it may be helpful to have some experiencing with teaching or facilitating.
It is always a good idea for facilitators to have a strong knowledge base about the content they are wanting to teach before teaching it. This course focuses on skills and strategies related to teaching trans content, and does not specifically focus on building participants’ knowledge about trans communities to teach, so it is recommended that participants come in with a strong foundation. If you would like to complete a Trans 101 training prior to the course to determine your baseline knowledge or refresh yourself, please check out our OnDemand Trans 101 course.
Yes, our Skills & Strategies for Facilitators of Trans Content is a different course than our Training-of-Trainers. Our Skills & Strategies course is more about the art, theory and practice of teaching as a whole, rather than focusing on putting together Trans 101 level trainings. Skills & Strategies takes content from Dr. Green’s master-level courses taught in higher education settings and makes them more accessible to people outside academia.
We recognize that each learner’s needs may be different, especially for an interactive learning course, and we invite participants to share accessibility requests on our registration survey.
What we are able to offer for this course:
- A Moderator for support around technical issues
- Auto-generated captions and transcripts by Zoom
- A majority of the time all participants are muted
- We use noise suppression and minimize auditory overload to the best of our abilities
- We respect folks needing to have cameras off or limited camera time
- We respect folk’s need for self-care, including moving around, eating, using fidget toys, taking notes, lying down, etc.
- 30 days access to recordings of each day, with transcript & autocaption – however we do ask that folks who sign up plan to attend the course, rather than reserving a seat to watch the recording without attending.
- With enough notice/pending the budget and availability of those we partner with, we can provide ASL Interpretation.
Yes! Please contact us to pay outside of Eventbrite.
Yes! We are happy to set up a payment plan for you, as we understand not having the full amount for your course ticket on hand at one time. Please email us at info@transaffirming.co if you’d like to attend a course and set up a payment plan. We discuss what makes sense for you, and once we agree upon the payment plan we will register you manually and send you an invoice for a deposit to hold your spot. From there, we can invoice you the remaining amount in however many invoices we have agreed upon and will need to be paid in full two weeks before the start of the course. We will also ask you how you would like us to handle things if you miss a payment.
Yes, though all requests must be received prior to the start of the event. Please contact us prior to the start of the event as we will not be able to issue CE credits retroactively.
If we are more than a week out from the start of the course, please reach out to us as soon as possible. Cancellations of CEs within 1 week of the start of the event cannot be processed and fees are non-refundable.
If we are more than a week out from the start of the course, please reach out to us as soon as possible. We will need the name and email address of the new person that will be attending the course in your place so we can follow up and send them our registration survey. Transfers within 1 week of the start of the event cannot be processed and fees are non-refundable.
As a small business that depends on income from our trainings for operational cash flow to stay in business. If we are more than 4 weeks out from the start of the course, please reach out to us as soon as possible. Cancellations within 4 weeks of the start of the event cannot be processed and fees are non-refundable.
However, if an emergency happens, please send us a quick message to let us know that you will not be in attendance. We define an emergency as an urgent and unexpected difficult/dangerous situation that requires your immediate attention. We will follow up with you after the course has finished to check in and see how you are doing, and to discuss options.