Educator Self-Assessment Worksheet
Free Educator Resource
Evaluate your teaching skills & ability with this free worksheet! The AFMTE Self-Assessment Worksheet was developed to help educators evaluate their teaching skills and abilities! You will also be able to decide if you are ready to apply for AFMTE’s new credential, Certified Educator of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (CETMB).
The guide contains a review of the 10 standards defining the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) that form the basis for effective and successful teaching.
This FREE download also contains worksheets with exercises and guided reflections for how you can demonstrate possessing the foundational skills to produce successful and consistent outcomes with adult learners in a variety of massage and bodywork educational setting
To Download your copy of The AFMTE Self-Assessment Worksheets, enter your information below, and we will email you the guide as a PDF!
About the AFMTE Educator Certification Program
Have you heard about the new CETMB credential for educators?
The Alliance for Massage Therapy Education (AFMTE) is now accepting applications for the CETMB (Certified Educator of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork) credential.
The AFMTE Educator Certification Program is currently a voluntary portfolio review process through which educators can demonstrate they have achieved proficiency in the Core Competencies for Massage Therapy Teachers. The portfolio review process allows experienced educators to become certified without having to go through a formal teacher training process.
A Certified Educator of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork:
- exemplifies the highest excellence as an educator of massage and bodywork
- integrates the theory and practice of teaching, learning, and assessment for adult student learners in a somatic-based curriculum
- builds an engaging and self-motivated learning environment that addresses varied patterns of student development
- makes central concepts, tools of inquiry, and subject matter accessible to all learners
- links instruction to well-defined learning objectives and creates strategies for motivating and retaining learners
- fosters students to develop deeper critical thinking skills to improve learning outcomes and achieve a high level of ethical awareness
- encourages collaboration with colleagues and other healthcare professionals
If this describes you, you can click here to learn more about the portfolio process and this credential.
Why?
The massage and bodywork field is experiencing challenges: reduced number of students, programs closing, increased expectations from regulatory agencies and the healthcare system. And the system is becoming more selective. As more and more practitioners are working within healthcare, consistency in educational standards will be vital. I believe this has to start with the foundation—the educators. Skilled educators have the biggest impact on the long-term success of every program.
There are many excellent educators with little or no formal teacher training; yet, they have developed the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes over time. The CETMB offers a pathway for those educators to demonstrate competency. This is important to the credibility of the whole field, as well as the potential impact it could have on employment opportunities and salaries.
If you believe that the quality of educators shapes the future success of the entire massage and bodywork field, then we strongly encourage you to learn more about this program.