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Course Description
Teacher Effectiveness Training (TET) is the most successful program for classroom management, discipline, and communication skills ever designed for teachers. Over 100,000 teachers have taken the TET course in more than twenty countries. The classic TET text by Dr. Thomas Gordon and the TET curriculum by Mr. Ken Miller have been translated into ten different languages.
The purpose of the TET course is for teachers to increase teaching/learning time, time on task, in their classrooms. The skills and methods of TET bring to teachers the results of a generation of educational research, consolidating and synthesizing this knowledge into a set of practical methods that teachers can apply to actually improve the quality of their teaching experience.
Teachers have three types of relationship times with their students: Teaching/Learning time, when teacher and students are on task, attentive, and participating; Student-Owned Problem time, when students experience upsets or problems that distract their attention from learning tasks; and Teacher-Owned Problem time, when the teacher experiences problems with unacceptable student behavior and is distracted from teaching tasks.
In TET, teachers learn specific skills of interpersonal communication and problem solving that they use to more effectively assist students with problems and to help get changes in unacceptable student behaviors. The result is that teachers teach more and feel better about themselves as teachers, because their students learn more.
These seven specific behavioral skills and their application in the classroom are taught in TET:
The TET curriculum design is based on a four-step experiential learning model, SIPA, in which 1) learning activities are structured; 2)students are involved in an activity; 3) they communicate about and process their personal experience with others; and 4) they analyze and generalize for purposes of application to their classroom. A variety of structures and methods are used in TET. They include instructor presentations and demonstrations, small group exercises and discussions, role plays, simulations of typical classroom situations, and written assignments.
Homework assignments are given that require the participants to implement and report on their experiences and utilize the TET communication skills in their classroom and personal lives. Reading and writing assignments are also given, and all students must pass a comprehensive final exam to receive credit.
Course Materials
Course Materials: Text - Teacher Effectiveness Training, Thomas Gordon, Wyden Books, 1974. TET Workbook, Ken Miller, Effectiveness Training, Inc., 1987. I-cards.
Time Requirements
TET is a forty-five hour course that is typically taught on weekends or over five full days.
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Student Requirements
General Requirements for a "C"
1. Attend all class sessions and participate in all class activities. No more than two hours of class time can be missed for a participant to receive credit.
2. Pass the final exam with a grade of 80% or better.
3. Complete all reading assignments.
4. Complete all written assignments in the workbook.
Requirements for a "B"
5. Complete an Audio Tape Assignment.
Requirements for an "A"
6. Complete a Personal Journal.
