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• Certified Developer of Training (CDT)

  • Start
    01 Jan 2024
  • End
    31 Dec 2025
  • Location
    virtual

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  Applications open for the Certified Developer of TRaining (CDT)

   

  Do you develop learning solutions, such as  Instructor-led training, asynchronous or synchronous training, simulations, serious games, and the like?  
  

  Intended Audience:   The CDT certification is for professionals who develop training and instructional solutions that are delivered live, in-person, or online and who want to be recognized for their ability to create effective learning events. 

  
  

  To earn this performance-based certification you must demonstrate all 9 standards by 1) answering questions about one of your learning solutions that are supported by client attestations and artifacts, and 2) committing to a Code of Ethics.  The CDT is endorsed by ISPI.   

  
  

  The 9 standards are:

  1.  Address Sustainability 
  2.  Align Solution
  3.  Assess Performance
  4.  Collaborate and Partner with Stakeholders
  5.  Elicit Performance or Practice
  6.  Enhance Retention and Transfer
  7.  Ensure Context Sensitivity 
  8.  Engage Learners
  9.  Ensure Relevance

  Click here to download the Handbook for the complete standards and the scoring rubrics.  The cost is $600 for Hale Center Professional and ISPI members and $725 for others.   Applications are accepted throughout the year.    
  

  Once certified you will receive a digital mark.  Please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org if you have questions

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• Certified Facilitator of Training (CFT)

  • Start
    01 Jan 2024
  • End
    30 Dec 2025
  • Location
    virtual

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  Applications open for the Certified Facilitator of Training

  (CFT)

  
  

  Do you facilitate learning events?   Online?   In person?

  Intended Audience:  The CFT certification is for professionals who facilitate training done online or in person and who want to be recognized for their skill in engaging learners. 

  
  

  This performance-based certification is endorsed by ISPI, Training Magazine, and the International Facility Management Association (IFMA). 

      
  

  
  

  You must submit one or more videos for a maximum of 35 minutes that demonstrate your competence in facilitation and are supported by learner evaluations and client attestations, and commit to a Code of Conduct.  The 4 competencies are:

  1.       The Facilitation Process – Competent Facilitators ask questions that:

  • Promote participation
  • Engage learners equitably
  • Promote reflection
  • Reinforce learning points
  • Clarify participants’ remarks and questions
  • Follow up on participants comments
  • Promote relevant conversation among learners so they process the content
  • Redirect questions to other participants to promote engagement

  2.       The Learning Process – Competent Facilitators:

  • Introduce the purpose, content, participants, and value.
  • Establish the relevance of the content; relate the content to needs and the learner experience.
  • Give examples that illustrate and reinforce the learning objective
  • Guide learners in activities designed to reinforce the objectives 

  3.       The Learning Assessment Process – Competent Facilitators:

  • Elicit examples from learners on how they will apply the content in the workplace
  • Assess comprehension                          

  4.       Professionalism – Competent Facilitators:

  • Demonstrate proficiency in the content and facilitation expertise
  • Respect participants’ opinions and perspectives

  The cost is $600 for Hale Center professional members, ISPI, and IFMA and $725 for others.   Click here to download the Handbook with the standards, requirements, and the scoring checklists.  Register here.  Applications are accepted throughout the year.

  Once certified you will receive a digital mark.  Please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org if you have questions

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• Happy Hour with Judy & Friends

  • When
    23 Jan 2025
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    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  Happy Hour with

  Judy & Friends

  Jan 23^rd at 6 PM Central Time

         Please join me for an informal get together.  There is no agenda, so be ready to share your ideas or contribute to what others bring to the discussion.  You must register, if you want to get the link to join.    Coffee with Judy is the 16th at 9AM 

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• How to Build Valid Tests & Assessments

  • Start
    20 Feb 2025
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    11:00 AM
  • End
    27 Mar 2025
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    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  How to Build Tests & Assessments Certificate Series: 

   6-Part Mini Series

  Take one, all, or any combination

  Thursdays at 11a.m. to 12:00p.m. Central Time

  February 20 to March 27

  Intended Audience:  This program is for internal and external consultants wanting to sharpen their skills in developing valid tests and assessments.  It covers what is required of a test, different testing methods, ways to score performance-tests, and how to analyze test data.  You will see real examples and get job aids with practical guidelines you can apply to your work.  The Test and Assessment series is part of Hale Center's 2023 theme on Consulting.  It is designed to strengthen your technical skills in assessment and measurement. 

  You can take the whole series or just selected topics of interest to you.   When you complete the 6-part program you will receive a certificate in Testing.  Note the sequence will be finalized in the first session.

  Topics in the series are:

  1. Test Basics:  learn what is a test, what is required for a test to be valid. ($59*)
  2. How to Decide What to Test, Why, and How:  learn the value of  developing operational definitions and doing a criticality analysis to determine what and how to test.  You will get guidelines and tools for developing an operational definition and doing a criticality analysis.  ($69*)
  3. How to Develop Performance Tests: learn the different types of performance tests, how they differ in their level of fidelity (how life-like they are), and get guidelines on how to develop them.  You will see examples. ($79*)
  4. How to Develop Checklists and Rubrics:  learn how to design and develop checklists and rubrics that are designed to score performance tests.  Learn to train judges in how to score performance tests and control inter-rater reliability of judges. You will receive templates and guidelines. ($79*)
  5. How to Develop Multiple-Choice Questions that Test Higher Level Skills:  find out how to use the work of David Merrill and Robert Bloom to create forced-choice questions (multiple-choice) measure memory and reasoning.  You will receive a toolkit with guidelines for developing effective multiple-choice tests ($89*)
  6. How to Analyze Test Results:  learn how to do an item analysis to identify which questions and answer choices are effective and ineffective.  You will also learn how to compare tests to confirm they are equivalent, that is measure the same knowledge and are equivalent in difficulty. ($69*)

  * Cost per session for the general public.  Discounts are available to ISPI, LDA, IFTDO, CTMR, and Hale Center Professional Members.  If you want to register for specific topics only, please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org and she will complete your registration.  Also, one paid $414 registration allows up to six in your organization to attend at no additional charge.   Just send Judy the names. 

  Materials:  Each topic comes with a workbook containing the slides, guidelines, and other supporting materials. 
  

  Cost:  For the series is $414, a $30 series savings (a total of six in your organization may attend at no additional cost); the cost for ISPI, LDA, IFTDO, and CTMR individual members is $384, a $60 series savings; the cost for Hale Center Professional Members is $354, a $90 series savings.   Please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org if you want to find out how to arrange for an in-house program.

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