CROSSTRAINER PROGRAM - INFORMATION (Jammer, slegs in Engels)

Crosstrainer is a comprehensive Occupational Therapy-based Preschool Programme and Curriculum catering for children from three to six years old.

The Curriculum contains:

• Step-by-step manuals which are used daily to ensure the covering of all the necessary stages of a child’s development.
• The curriculum consists of 40 lessons per quarter per age.
•   160 lessons each for    ages three, four, five and six.

The manuals are used daily to ensure the covering of all the  necessary stages of a child’s development.  It includes the valuable knowledge of a child’s necessary development at the various ages on social, mental and physical    levels.
OUTCOMES: 

• Imparting educational knowledge to practitioners who did not receive educational training.
• Equipping the practitioners by giving them basic training and a curriculum to be more structured and prepared in their classes.
• Helping children to be ready for school at the appropriate age through teaching and educating them in motor development, emotional control, vision, social links, vocabulary, second language, mathematical and logical reasoning and music. 
• Helping children to achieve a positive self image and intellectual skills

TRAINING:
Training takes place over three days which include:

• Basic Child Development Principles
•  Fundamental Educational Knowledge
•  Elementary, effective teaching methods and strategies
• ​Step by step introduction to content and use of the 
  Crosstrainer Curriculum and Manuals

FOLLOW UP:
Follow up visits are done to ensure effective and successful implementation of the programme.:

• Continuous coordination and contact visits from the Crosstrainer Team.
• Collaboration between Crosstrainer Team and an appointed association or field worker, who takes on the responsibility of the spiritual welfare of the practitioners and children;
• as well as general supervision regarding the implementation of the Crosstrainer Programme.