DIR 204 Learning Objectives

The DIR 204 course is designed to prepare a practitioner to be both an expert DIRFloortime provider and to become an ICDL Training Leader. 

Following successful completion of DIR 204, participants will be able to...

Big Picture Competencies

• Demonstrates the ability to support clinicians as they integrate DIR principles/strategies for interventions, including the central role of affect and relationship to support development.

• Shows ease with explaining and embodying a transdisciplinary approach. (i.e., how to stay in one’s own “professional lane”/true to one’s own professional discipline while imparting information about all aspects of Developmental Capacities and Individual Differences). 

• Demonstrates the ability to teach DIR’s optimistic and strengths-based approach to promote self-awareness and autonomy.

• Demonstrates the inclusive nature of the DIR model. This means explaining the model’s inclusive and/or overlapping nature with theory and practice from various areas of research and clinical practice.

Presentation/Teaching

• Shows the ability to choose an appropriate topic for teaching at the 201 level and an appreciation for how this same topic might be taught at the 202 and 203 levels. This ability also reflects appropriate adherence to length of presentation.

• Demonstrates expertise and confidence in a topic presented. Listed objectives match the content of the presentation.

• Incorporates effective teaching supports such as visuals, charts, or videos to communicate the information at the appropriate level.    

• Demonstrates ability to facilitate question/answer segment to facilitate learning for all participants.

Internship

• Demonstrates/reports a (growing) capacity to manage the administrative and planning aspects of teaching.

• Demonstrates an ability to find teaching points in almost any video and communicates this to the class and/or individual student. 

• Demonstrates an awareness of their own strengths and challenge areas for teaching. This includes recognizing interactive styles, coping with stressful teaching and feedback situations, and establishing a network of supportive peers/mentors.

• Demonstrates the ability to give effective feedback to participants in a supportive and straightforward manner and can offer appropriate individualized recommendations while managing and co-regulating developing clinicians.

Reflective Practice & Professional Identity

• Demonstrates the ability to reflect on internship and 204a experiences.

• Demonstrates awareness of their own tendencies and use of strategies when under stress.

• Demonstrates curiosity about furthering and deepening their own reflectiveness, awareness, and use of the model while supporting others to do so. This may include making use of a network of supportive peers/mentors.

• Demonstrates and teaches the central role of reflectiveness in the DIR model that inspires others to do so.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This is an intensive leadership course that helps participants develop competencies as Training Leaders in their communities and refine their application of the DIR model and Floortime principles at the expert level. This 14-week course requires at least 4 hours of practicum work every week, by participating as co-leaders of other courses (DIR 201-DIR 203) for 2 hours every week, help course participants prepare their presentations (approximately 30 minutes - 1 hour/week), work on their written assessment, supervised by the 204 Training Leader (approximately 30 minutes/week) and participate during the oral feedback sessions for participants (approximately 30 minutes/week). In addition, participants will meet with the DIR 204 course Training Leader every other week for 2 hours, where they will review readings related to adult education and reflective leadership, as well as demonstrate competencies of using video clips and PowerPoint presentations as training tools. Total time commitment for this course is approximately 5 to 6 hours per week.

Please review the current course schedule before registering to see if you will be available on any of the dates and times that other courses (201R, 202, and 203) are listed.  Please email dirfloortimetraining@icdl.com immediately with your three (3) course choices and list order of preference.  We will do our best to accommodate your request.