Alexandertechniek Opleiding Nederland (ATON) - The training course: goals and costs

The training course: goals and costs

The main goal of the training course is to educate students to become teachers of the Alexander Technique. In addition it is possible to temporarily visit the training course to get a better understanding of the technique. Finally the training course also offers the possibility for present teachers to broaden ther education.

Entrance requirements

To enter the training course the following points are required:

a well grounded motivation
to see the training course as a personal education
to realize that the changes one experiences during the training course can be of deep influential nature
must be 21 years or older
has to have completed a period of 30 lessons within a short time before beginning the training course
must meet with the main teachers and have a few private lessons with them
preferably join the school for one week to get acquainted with the training course
to fill in a questionnaire
to sign a contract for the training course

Due to the foreign guest teachers, english books, articles and the many foreign students participating in the training course, english is used as the main language along with dutch as the secondary language.

Structure and contents

The training course is a three year course consisting of 35 lesson weeks. Class is five mornings a week from 9.00 am to 12.30 pm or 1.00 pm.

In the first year the student learns to think and function according to the Alexander Technique principles, in other words, one is taught how to use the technique for oneself in preparation for working on others.
In the second year one learns refinement of ones own development as well as manual proficiency in physical procedures.
In the third year this all leads to independant work on colleagues and eventuallly outsiders.

The training course consists of 80% practical Alexander work. The most prevailing lesson program is as follows:

An individual turn: lesson of 15 or 30 minutes
Games: movements that are often given in a series with a constructive character
Hands on: learn to give lessons using one's hands
Reading of the books of F.M. Alexander and related articles
Self-activity and in a later stadium working on others

This steady daily program aimed towards the basis skills of the technique is supplemented, among other things, with the following three topics:

anatomy and physiology according to the Alexander Technique
voice work
starting and organizing ones own practice

For this guest teachers form the Netherlands and abroad are regularly invited per trimester.

Moderation

In average two times a year we have a moderator visiting the school. This is a teacher outside the school who has many years of teaching experience. Presently the school makes use of an experianced teacher from the moderating panel of the english society, the STAT: Jean Clark (more then 30 years of teaching experience). She visits during the students sixth and ninth trimesters to help give a more independent insight towards their own development in the technique and as a future teacher. For the main teachers this is also an opportunity to get some feedback on the quality of the training course.

Further training for graduate teachers

Monthly, we have a refreshers course at the school for all the teachers taught at this training course. The teachers from the training course also meet monthly to exchange and broaden the practice of hands on lessons.

Costs

The training course costs € 7200,- per year. This may be paid per trimester at a rate of € 2400,- per trimester. The costs can be raised proportionally to the inflation rates.

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