NO Prerequisite for this course
This online course is self-paced
Often the staff hired to address truancy are not afforded the proper training to make them successful. Adequate training and preparation are critical for attendance intervention success.
This course is a comprehensive training tool to reduce students from dropping out, which includes issues that affect attendance and how to improve it with detailed strategies. It covers everything you need to know from how to work with school staff, parents, students, and the community.
If you work in education with K to 12 this course is for you. Enhance your skills and get your Strategies for Chronic Absenteeism and Truancy certificate and show everyone you are serious about helping our students!
If you withdraw from this course within 7 days of your enrollment date and before you start your first course, you will receive a 100% refund.
About your 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 for a school district in Texas
* Licensed Social Worker
* Master's Degree in Criminal Justice
* Certified Domestic Violence Counselor
* Basic Mediation
* Family Mediation
* Truancy Mediation
* TMCA Credentialed Advanced Mediator
* 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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Example Curriculum
- 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