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Technical Assitance
Technical Assistance provided by Educational Consultants is intended to increase capacity and foster sustainability for organizations. TA is broken down into Focused Technical Assistance and Comprehensive Technical Assistance. The support given to our clients can easily be integrated into existing systems and structures.
Focused Technical Assistance
This level of Technical Assistance is designed to address a single challenge that has already been identified and support is meant to be short-term.
Emphasis:
• Responsive to Identified Needs
• Build Program Specific Capacity
• Identification of Ongoing Resources
• Prescribed Professional Development
• Product Development (Additional Cost May Apply)
Comprehensive Technical Assistance
This level of Technical Assistance is designed to address multiple challenges that have not been systematically identified and support is meant to be long-term.
Emphasis:
• Commitment to Programmatic Change
• Build General Capacity
• Commitment to Systemic and Structural Change
• Ongoing Professional Developments
• Ongoing Monitoring
• Facilitate Communication Across Systems
• Customized Professional Development
Location
Technical Assistance could be provided at a location that is convenient for clients, through emails or tele-conference.
Length
- • Daily • Bi Monthly • Yearly
- • Weekly • Monthly
At Educational Consultants, increasing capacity and foster sustainability for organizations means focusing on five foundations of Technical Assistance:
- • Adult Leaning
- • Collaborative Relationship
- • Communication
- • Assessment & Planning
- • Change Process
Adult Learning
Adult learning theory recognizes the unique strengths and assets of adults within the specific context of their professional knowledge and experience, including the ability to identify and solve problems, and to use self-identified goals as a motivation for growth and change within their organizations. Educational Consultants fosters a safe collaborative interaction by respecting each professional’s unique learning style, encouraging active participation, and ensuring shared responsibility for planning and accountability.
- Acknowledge and build on the professional adult’s strengths, knowledge, and experiences
- Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to the unique characteristics of the professional adult, including cultural, linguistic, ability, and community and life experiences
- Engage and involve the learner through adult learning techniques, such as guided self-reflection and application of new learning to professional practice or personal dispositions
Collaborative Relationship
The hallmark of Educational Consultants Technical Assistance is a Collaborative Relationship. This relationship guides improvement efforts through on-going planning to review practices, set priorities, define goals and objectives, evaluate progress, and document success. Educational Consultants will ensure successful collaboration by establishing credibility and trust, building on core knowledge and capabilities, and ensuring a professional relationship.
- • Recognize and build on strengths, assets, capabilities, and capacities of professional adults within the organization
- • Develop respectful and responsive relationships through positive interpersonal skills Ensure awareness, sensitivity, and responsiveness to cultural competencies of people and organizations, and understand
their relevance to effective partnerships - • Use mutual agreement to facilitate quality improvement plans to design quality improvement plans
- • Build professional relationships by clarifying roles, respecting boundaries, and setting clear expectations
- • Foster collaborative partnerships by clarifying needed goals and modeling effective and positive professional interactions
Communication
Educational Consultants pride itself on communicating, exhibiting genuine care, respect, and shared purpose. Communication through speaking, listening, writing, problem solving, and through multiple mediums (e.g., telephone and e-mail, on-site visits, meetings, tele-conference, and various training approaches)
- • Activate authentic listening skills (e.g., attending, acknowledging, and associating), responding (e.g., probing, summarizing, sharing feedback and support), and using information received to move
towards problem solving and planning - • Provide verbal and non-verbal cues (e.g., focused attention, matched pace and affect) and feedback to validate, affirm, and encourage authentic conversation and engagement
- • Develop effective writing skills for professional communication (e.g., e-mail, letter, training materials)
- • Use positive conflict management and mediation skills to build on common goals, and respect unique experiences of program to solve problems and support growth
- • Maintain integrity and ethical conduct and protect confidentiality in communication and record keeping
Assessment and Planning
Successful assessment and planning at Educational Consultants is geared towards quality improvement that depends on clearly defined goals to gather and analyze data for the purpose of positive change. In partnership with organizations, Educational Consultants will evaluate practice, establish goals and priorities, and set action steps that lead to specific and meaningful outcomes.
- • Gather and analyze data, and support others’ ability to reflect on and analyze the data
- • Use formal and informal assessment data to inform goal setting and collaborative planning related to individual, group, and program needs
- • Use data to develop quality improvement plan (e.g., establish purpose and goals, determine areas for improvement, set priorities and action steps, and summarize/review needs)
- • Develop action steps that leads to measurable realistic and attainable goals including creation of resources and tools
- • Establish follow-up plans with realistic time frame to keep goals on track and affirm progress • Promote collaborative engagement for on-going evaluation of progress
- • Provide guidance in adjusting action steps and goals
- • Use critical thinking skills by gathering data, analyzing, applying standards, and using logical reasoning and insight to apply knowledge to practice
- • Engage in critical thinking (e.g., Identify needs, gather information, evaluate evidence in light of professional standards, weigh options, choose plans of action)
Change Process
Educational Consultants believe Change Process is define by the assumptions, values, beliefs, and perceptions of people and programs that encourages or prevent positive change. Educational Consultants work with organizations to gain needed insight and to plan strategies that will build the strengths, assets, and capabilities of an organization, and will increase needed skills, dispositions, and behaviors to achieve desired goals and outcomes. Working with our partners, Educational Consultants understand that improvement is continuous and takes time; is incremental and should be celebrated along the way.
- • Embrace the complexity of change and the need for adaptability and flexibility in supporting others
- • Knowledge of change process, including ability to document evidence of change
- • Knowledge and ability to facilitate individual and organizational readiness for change and to collaborate with individuals and program staff to create that change
- • Knowledge and ability to facilitate individual readiness for change and to collaborate with individuals and program staff to create that change
- • Demonstrate responsiveness to individuals’ and organizations’ ongoing professional needs
- • Translate professional development, training, and resources into practice through active reflection, discussion, problem solving techniques, identifying, and linking training to practice
- • Ability to present evidence of the impact of quality practice on positive outcomes
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