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EXTENSIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING PACKAGE A number of ancillary materials accompany The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists. These materials are designed to support student learning and to provide instructors with everything they need to successfully teach the concepts in the core textbook. Workbook The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists – Student Workbook provides various review tools with both individual exercises—matching questions, word scrambles, crossword puzzles, true or false, and fill-in-the-blanks—and group activities like role-plays, hangman, and even a quiz fashioned after the Jeopardy! game show. Other features like Mental Portrait, Spa Tips or Techniques, Be Prepared, and Self-Searching allow students the opportunity to test their comprehension and place themselves in real-life situations. Plus, all important step-by-step spa procedures are reinforced by the use of detailed rubrics, allowing students precise self-assessments of skill performance and level of development. Course Management Guide on CD-ROM The purpose of The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists Course Management A guide is to give educators strong support in providing the highest-quality instruction in the discipline of spa therapies for the massage therapist, given the wide range of teaching institutions, course lengths, classroom facilities, and local licensing issues involved. It is designed to serve as your partner in making spa education effective, interesting, and fun, while also helping your students develop their mental, ethical, and therapeutic skills. The comprehensive Course Management Guide has been created specifically to support spa therapy education in the massage school environment. Your students deserve the best possible education, and the public deserves competent, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable therapists to work on them. This material was developed with those goals in mind. The spa industry continues as a major force in the hiring and development of massage therapists. As educators, our primary focus is to support students in their growth and to prepare them for successful careers by providing inspiring yet realistic training and training materials. Because spa education for massage therapists in North America does not yet have any universally accepted standards, this Course Management Guide and The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists text, along with the companion workbook, strive to be as comprehensive and non-exclusionary as possible. In some states and regions, parts of the material may not apply to massage therapists, yet all of the information is important for therapists to understand and master if they are going to be well-rounded spa professionals, even if they are called upon to perform Swedish massage exclusively and no other services. We are well-aware of the diverse learning environments present in massage schools and the wide range of needs as far as spa therapy education is concerned. For this very reason, Cengage Learning has not set this spa therapy training curriculum in stone but rather presents it as a range of options that are, then, further customizable according to your needs. The three main options, for which comprehensive lesson plans and support materials have been developed include: Short "Weekend" Spa Course (16–24 Hours) If your school is operating on a tight schedule with very little extra time for spa therapy training available, you could implement the short course, which can be taught over a weekend if necessary. This will give students an idea of what to expect if they were to pursue spa therapy training further, making it possible for them to decide if this is the right choice for them before investing a large amount of time or effort in their studies. This course is similar to what a professional massage therapist would experience as part of a continuing education program, and over the years, it has proven quite useful. Many therapists, after having taken this level of training, have been able to successfully perform several spa modalities and even develop a spa therapies specialty in their own practices. Because of the short duration of this course, only a fraction of the material in The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists can be delivered in the classroom itself. Thus, many supplementary learning exercises and activities are suggested for students' self-guided learning after the class is over. Mid-Length Spa Course (36–60 Hours) For those students who know they want to pursue work in the spa field, but where time or other constraints do not allow the school to offer a full spa track, the mid-length course affords the opportunity to review the entire core text, with discussions and exercises in the classroom that reinforce learning. Lectures and hands-on experiences are limited to key points and major modalities, with an abundance of suggestions for self-directed study both during the course and after its completion. Students who pass this course will have a firm grasp of the basic skills and knowledge needed by therapists seeking a career in the spa industry. Graduates will feel confident in approaching spas when seeking employment. In addition, they will know how to set up and maintain a spa practice or small spa facility of their own. Long Spa Course (78–130 Hours) The long spa course can be implemented as a full post-graduate track, such as many schools provide along with tracks in sports massage or Eastern therapies, for example. This program is for the school that has seen a growing need among the student body for comprehensive, in-depth spa therapy training. All modules, modalities, exercises, and activities in The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists are covered, with guided lectures to elucidate each part of all 18 chapters. Students who successfully graduate from this program will have a thorough understanding of what it takes to work in the modern spa industry. They will be among the most knowledgeable and highly trained of all their peers seeking career opportunities in this field. Customizable Learning Any of the three main curriculum choices can be modified to fit the particular time frames and educational needs of your school. In shorter versions of any of the curriculums, educators can recommend that students experience many of the exercises and activities on their own, while limiting class time to core knowledge development and direct hands-on experiences. In longer versions of each curriculum, educators can take full advantage of the extensive support materials and educational tools provided in the text and in this guide. For the midlength and long courses, one hour of hands-on documented practice time on spa modalities should be completed outside of class per each lesson provided. Alternatively, this documented practice can be carried out in the school's spa clinic, if such a clinic is available. Course Management Guide Support Materials Upon determining the length of the spa curriculum that you are offering at your school, you can choose the appropriate set of lesson plans from this guide. All three of the curricula are supplemented with a number of documents: syllabi, sign-in sheets, activity worksheets, forms, checklists, academic progress evaluations, hands-on skill level checklists, theory grade records by course unit These are found in the support materials section of this guide. The uses for most of these forms will be self-evident. However, the theory grade records by course unit may be new. This form is used to record the test grades of each successive test for each student in one location, so that it will not be necessary to file a large number of tests for each class. After the student signs this form, each separate test grading sheet can be recycled. The same form contains a place to keep records of student performance on all of the Hands-On Skill Level Checklists provided throughout the Course Management Guide. Lessons Plans The lesson plans in each of three curricula are divided into several sections: 1. SIGN-IN SHEET: The sign-in sheet contains some of the information from the lesson plan, with the addition of an area for students to sign in on the bottom of the form. This can be printed separately, signed, and filed with the instructor's materials, creating a detailed written record of the subject taught, date, facilities and resources used, student responsibilities, and students in attendance. 2. SUBJECT: The section (Part 1, 2, 3, or 4) of The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists addressed in the lesson. 3. TOPIC: Specific topic(s) within the text section covered in the lesson plan. 4. LESSON OBJECTIVES: What the students will be able to understand or perform upon completion of the lesson and practice. 5. IMPLEMENTS, EQUIPMENT, & SUPPLIES: Items needed by both students and instructors to successfully complete the lesson. 6. TEACHING AIDS: Audio or visual equipment, handouts, etc., to be used by the instructor. 7. FACILITY: Theory, practical classroom, or both. 8. TIME ALLOTMENT: Broad guidance is provided for the time allotted to each lesson. This Course Management Guide was written to function effectively in many teaching situations, with a wide variance in required learning hours. The instructor's choice of activities to be included and hands-on protocols to be performed as part of each lesson will greatly impact the time allotment for each lesson. 9. PRIOR ASSIGNMENT: What the student needs to have completed prior to the class. 10. EDUCATOR REFERENCES: References available to the instructor to further expand his or her knowledge on the subject and enhance the class. 11. NOTES TO THE EDUCATOR: Suggestions and reminders to better prepare the educator for the class. 12. LEARNING MOTIVATION: Reasons why the material presented in this lesson is relevant and useful to the student. Instructors, of course, can modify and personalize the introduction and motivation for the lesson if they so desire. 13. SPA THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Also found on the first instructor-support PowerPoint slide for each lesson, these quotes set the tone for the clss and provide some spaspecifi c insights on which students can focus as they begin their training each day. 14. SUBJECT OUTLINES & NOTES: A two-column format with a brief description of the material on the left side and more in-depth notes on the right side. Instructors can read or paraphrase the information here as they teach the class. Also listed here are supplementary materials that support the instructor's leadership in the classroom. 15. SUMMARY AND REVIEW: Includes a summation of the class and answers to chapter review questions. 16. ACTIVITIES TO REINFORCE LEARNING: This section lists activities, projects, games, group processes, etc. those instructors can assign to reinforce material covered in the class. Depending upon the time available, these activities can be incorporated into the class or assigned for time outside the classroom. Space is provided for instructors to write in additional activities developed by students or the instructor. These, then, can be used by other instructors at the school in the future. 17. STEP-BY-STEP MODALITY PROTOCOL HANDOUTS: Where applicable, step-by-step protocols for spa modalities are provided within the lesson plan so they can be printed out and used by students in the practical classroom environment, removing the need to have the textbook present during potentially messy procedures. These sheets make it easier for the students to keep track of their progress while learning spa treatments. 18. HANDS-ON SKILL LEVEL CHECKLISTS: Educators can use these forms to check the progress of students as they learn and master each practical skill. The forms are tied to the practical procedures presented and list specific performance criteria that can be used with the school's practical grading program to determine a student's competency in any given practical skill. These criteria have been provided because various accrediting agencies mandate that practical skills be evaluated on the basis of written criteria established by the school for the purpose of measuring student learning. To be effective, the application of these criteria must be uniform and consistent, and these forms may help you with that. 19. TESTS: Multiple-choice tests are provided at the end of every lesson in The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists, and they are assigned, where applicable, in each lesson plan. For the short and mid-length curricula, where multiple chapters may be discussed in the course of one lesson, modified tests are provided that combine information from the various chapters. 20. TEST ANSWER KEYS: Test answers are provided for instructors. |
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