AFMTE Core Competencies for Massage Education
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The AFMTE Core Competencies were developed to to strengthen and improve the quality of therapeutic massage and bodywork education.
The AFMTE Core Competencies are broadly applicable across the continuum of entry-level, continuing education, advanced massage therapy and bodywork training programs, and specialty certification programs.
The competencies are presented as a set of ten standards, each of which describes the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) that form the basis for effective and successful teaching.
This document – the first of its kind in the massage therapy and bodywork fields – identifies the foundational (KSAs) that teachers must possess to produce successful and consistent outcomes with adult learners in a variety of massage and bodywork educational settings. Publication of these competencies marked the beginning of a long-term effort to foster a culture of teaching excellence in our field.
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