Course Overview
Course Objective
1. To apply strategies that improve students' attendance
2. Identify issues that cause truant behavior
3. Detail the process for creating a campus attendance plan
4. Describing the process for communicating with parents to improve absenteeism
5. Explaining steps for developing the attendance campus team committee
6. Prepare you for parents' communication styles
7. Evaluating attendance data to identify students
8. Applying techniques to encourage parent participation
9. Identifying software needs to support identifying truant students
10. Evaluating intervention planning
Why is the Attendance Officer certification necessary?
Certification is a process which verifies, based on fixed standards, an individual's qualifications and knowledge to work in a specialized field.
* Confirms your professional development.
* Validates your creditability.
* Demonstrates your commitment.
* Increases stakeholder trust.
* Shows that you are trained and prepared for your role.
* It helps build our Attendance Officer community.
Often staff hired to address school truancy are not provided the proper training to make them successful. Adequate training and preparation are critical for attendance professional success.
This online self paced course is a comprehensive training course to reduce students from dropping out of school. You will learn issues that affect attendance and how to improve it with different strategies. It covers everything you need to know from working with school staff, parents, students, and the community.
By signing up for this advanced course you are confirming that you meet all of the course prerequisites,
About the Instructor
Jerome Thompson
Mr. Thompson has over twenty years of experience working with dropout-prone students and their families for a Texas school district. He has been responsible for alternative, middle, and high school students. One of his primary responsibilities is facilitating attendance/truancy meetings between the school, parent, and student. As an attendance meeting facilitator, he has mediated hundreds of attendance/truancy issues, finding a solution to help families get their students to school and avoid legal intervention. Jerome's skills in working with schools and families come from years of planning .
Jerome Thompson:
* Attendance Officer
* Licensed Social Worker
* Master's Degree in Criminal Justice
* Certified Domestic Violence Counselor
* Basic Mediation
* Family Mediation
* Truancy Mediation
* Texas Association Of Mediators
* National Association of Certified Mediators trainer
Mr. Thompson spent over 11 years working with Texas Children Protective Services families.
Over his twenty years of experience working truancy cases, Jerome recognized the need for more structured training for district clerks, attendance officers, outreach specialists, and others. Jerome helped create training hours for current and new attendance officers, ensuring the skills and knowledge needed to do the job. He also developed training specifically for attendance specialists, assuring staff has the skill required to work with students, families, and school attendance conflicts.
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Curriculum outline
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE CAUSES OF TRUANT BEHAVIOR
- 2. COST OF ABSENTEEISM
- 3. PREPARING FOR A PARENT OF TRUANT STUDENT
- 4. STUDENT TRUANCY TYPES
- 5. SETTING UP AND STRUCTURING A CAMPUS ABSENTEEISM -TRUANCY PLAN
- 6. SAMPLE OF SOFTWARE SYSTEM SET-UP BASED ON SCHOOL TRUANCY PLAN
- 7. BEST PRACTICES FOR PARENT CONFERENCES REGARDING ATTENDANCE
- 8. SETTING UP A CAMPUS ATTENDANCE COMMITTEE
- 9. STRATEGIES FOR TRUANCY PREVENTION
- 10. UNDERSTANDING DIVERSE COMMUNICATION STYLES
- 11. STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING ATTENDANCE
- 12. MOTIVATING RELUCTANT PARENTS TO GET INVOLVED IN SCHOOL
- 13. PLANNING RESPONSIBILITIES FOR CAMPUS STAFF
- 14. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CODES
- 15. HOME VISITS
- 16. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR ATTENDANCE SPECIALIST
- 17. YOUR STATE COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE LAWS
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