PRIDE Training of Trainers

I'm in Sioux Falls all week for a training of trainers for PRIDE (the foster parent training). I've been co-training for two years now and love it! The main trainer I work with is easy to teach with and I absolutely love working with prospective foster/kinship parents.

This current training involves about 20 of us, all DSS workers except for myself and one foster dad, that are being trained to train others. At the risk of sounding full of myself, I already know most of the information they are telling us because I've already been doing the training. Ironically, they spent the first afternoon instructing us in adult learning styles and how to best teach adults. Seeing how all of us there are adults and we were bored out of our minds, I think the only thing they actually taught me was what not to do during training if I want to keep our foster parents interested in the program! At least, being a state run program, we were out of there by 5pm.

I intended to get a ton of paperwork done last night but instead, I unloaded my suitcase and computer at the hotel, picked up some supper and went back to the hotel and read. I very seldom get the chance to read un-interrupted so I decided that's what I was going do with my evening. I didn't check in with any Sioux Falls friends. I didn't turn on my computer. I didn't even turn on the TV. I did answer phone calls from my kids :)

Tonight I will actually be working on the computer and finishing paperwork so maybe I'll get the pictures from the Omaha Reunion up later.

Now I'd better finish my coffee and get ready to head back to Children's Home Society for today's training. We start at 8am so I think I'll take lots of coffee with me!
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