The Essential Educator

The Essential Educator is professionally designed and produced to enhance the quality of your program and to facilitate an effective presentation with confidence and flair.

Brilliantly designed, it will be popular with new and experienced educators alike - follow the suggested program outlines or incorporate elements into your existing program. Each Kit contains an impressive array of activities, ideas, materials and strategies - all "road tested" for practicality and suitability for parent education.

Save on preparation time as well - everything you need is supplied, right down to the pencils and name tags. Open the box and a whole new world of exciting, fun and effective teaching activities awaits you!

Features:
Session Outlines:
These describe a complete lesson, with timings, topics, resources and presenation ideas. Use as suggested or as the basis for revising or adapting your existing program.
Topic Outlines:
How to cover those especially important topics, such as labour pain, breastfeeding, lifestyle changes for parents and obstetric interventions and medications. Each outline describes ideas for activities, presentation points, helpful hints and references.
Activities:
The 20 activities in the Parenting Kit and 16 activities in the Labour and Birth Kit offer a wealth of innovative ideas, all fully explained with aims and objectives, presentation notes, timings, helpful hints and all the equipment you need.
Worksheets
Many activities, some evaluations, even notes for the facilitator, use worksheets which are supplied in handy, full colour tear off pads. Pencils are included too!

Audiovisual Aids
DVD:"Mother and Baby" presents the first week at home with a new baby and the basics of breastfeeding. (Parenting 1 & 2) plus a "how to teach positioning at the breast" film for educators.

DVD:"The First Breath"-a collection of amazing images with gentle songs and music to illustrate the wonders of natural labour and birth (Labour and Birth 1 - 4)

DVD:"Skills for Educators-a training film on using models and teaching about the pelvis.

CD:"New Day"-the sounds of nature set to music to create a peaceful and appropriate ambience for your group (both kits).

Chart Set: the innovative "Birth Day" magnetic panels and tiles help you tell the story of labour and birth in a completely new way that engages the group and clarifies the process (Labour and Birth 1-4)

CD: The sounds of a "Crying Baby" to bring realism to discussion around early parenting (Parenting 1 & 2).

"Epidural Role Play" - an easy way to explain what's involved with an epidural.

Educator's Kit Bag and Educator's Portfolio for convenient storage of your teaching equipment.

A T-shirt to wear to remind everyone of the final goal for their birth journey.

Obstetric Intervention and Medication Templates - quick reference guide for fully informing parents of their options and choices

Also included are the basic charts from the Birth International Range that you need to effectively support your message:
"Giving Birth Charts"
"Postions for Active Labour"
"Posterior Presentation"
"The Cascade of Intervention"
"Anatomy and Physiology"
"Labour Pain"
"Breastfeeding Basics" (Parenting 1 & 2)