COURSES

Overview

PCWTA

- Curriculum Catalogue

CORE COURSE FOR SUPERVISORS

PCWTA's Core Supervisor Course is currently being revised to incorporate statewide standardized elements. The Core is an eight day course composed of four 2-day segments.

Unlike many of the other classes offered by the PCWTA, the supervision classes are not "stand alone" classes. Each 2-day segment is designed to meet a number of learning objectives under its respective topic and attendance at both days is required.

This course is offered in four 2-day segments scheduled one month apart. This month long separation of classroom segments allows the trainees to practice skills learned in the classroom. The core practice course for supervisors is designed for new child welfare supervisors, supervisors without training in effective leadership skills and/or supervisors transitioning from one position to another.

The curriculum consists of the following components:

Days 1-2: "A Leading Role": Leadership Skills for Child Welfare Supervisors. The theme for the first two days is developing leadership skills that can be applied directly in a child welfare context and specifically by you as a supervisor.

Days 3-4: "Charting a Course: Maintaining your Bearings": Outcomes and the Activities Likely to Achieve Them. Building on the leadership and management skills and carefully referencing key Federal, State and local outcomes discussed in Days 1-2, this module focuses in more depth on the supervisory role (knowledge and skill) in identifying and tracking key practice and program indicators which correlate with improved outcomes at the program, section and unit level.

Days 5-6: "A Micro-Climate of Sanity": Maximizing Individual Worker Performance and Strengthening Educational Supervision Skills. The third two days emphasize ways we can define, improve and maximize the performance of staff in your unit.

Days 7-8: "A Very Special Case: Putting it all Together": Providing Case Specific Supervision, Final Application, Community Engagement, Teaming Strategies, Managing Changing Organizational Dynamics and Relationships. The final module focuses on the supervisor's critical role in providing case specific supervision to staff at the unit level.