Course Overview
A 2-Hour CE Course for Massage Teachers
Have you ever had this experience? You greet your students and review the content you covered in the previous class. Even though you presented the information through a carefully structured lecture, your students now act like they have never heard these concepts before. Why do they have such difficulty remembering content, and why does it feel like their knowledge foundation is so shaky that it's impossible to build into more complex ideas?
Most of us put a lot of effort into our lessons but may forget to formally anchor content at the end of learning experiences and the conclusion of class periods. As a result, much of the learning gets lost because students haven't fully organized it in memory before they move on to the next thing.
In this Massage Classroom Coach course, we'll learn 40 activities that anchor student learning. These strategies help students remember important concepts to build on previously established knowledge as classes progress. Anchoring methods are active and require students to exercise their thinking. Additionally, these strategies promote peer learning, the personalization of content, and real-world application, improving student engagement, motivation, and ownership of academic goals.
Anne is the Director of Education and co-founder of Massage Mastery Online, specializing in digital textbooks that make learning more efficient, effective, and enjoyable. Anne is a licensed massage therapist (27 years), an aromatherapist, a certified reflexologist, a spa consultant, an author, and an educator (formally an esthetician and registered counselor). She is the former Director of Education for Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP), where she pursued her passion for instructional design and developed support materials and resources for massage students, instructors, schools, and professional members from 2006 until 2019.
Before working with ABMP, Anne was a massage instructor for eight years, emphasizing curriculum development and program implementation for Ashmead College in Washington State, and in 2004 became their director of education at the Tacoma campus. She has offered several continuing education programs, including workshops on hot stone massage, aromatherapy, spa therapies, and reflexology.
Anne has served on the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB) test writing committee and worked with the dynamic team at ABMP to develop ABMP's Student Life Program, ABMP Exam Coach, ABMP 5-Minute Muscles, and many other resources for schools and instructors. She also wrote the curriculum for the "Instructors on the Front Lines" massage teacher training program for ABMP from 2008 to 2019 and the content for the ABMP School Forum from 2007 to 2019. In addition, she is the author of Spa Bodywork: A Guide for Massage Therapists, 2nd Edition (2016), and Massage Mastery: From Student to Professional (2013), both previously published in print by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
Anne served as project leader for the Entry-Level Analysis Project (ELAP). This research project described what a person must know and be able to do to practice massage safely and competently at the entry level. The ELAP curriculum blueprint outlines the learning outcomes and objectives all schools should teach in foundational education and was published in 2013 by the Coalition of National Massage Therapy Organizations. In addition, Anne partnered with Eric Brown and the team at ABMP to produce the ABMP Business Summit, ABMP Back Pain Summit, Eric Dalton Online Workshop, and ABMP Head & Neck Summit, attracting more than 16,000 registrants and hosting more than 7,000 people online, live at one time.
Today, Anne lives in Louisville, Colorado, where she explores her passion for instructional design for adult learners, now in online formats, with her husband, Eric Brown, and a team of feline helpers (Indu, Minnie, Loki, and Delphi). When not writing, Anne loves rock climbing, ice climbing, hiking, biking, skiing, hanging out with friends, and anything that gets her out into Colorado's beautiful countryside. She is teaching Eric to enjoy camping.
Learning Objectives: Having completed this two-hour course, you will be able to:
- Define the term, anchoring.
- List the five aspects of memory.
- State three ways that anchoring practices enhance memory processes.
- Define the term, knowledge web.
- List three reasons students struggle to encode information into memory.
- Explain what is meant by the statement “anchoring promotes active learning.”
- Describe one way anchoring helps students personalize content.
- Identify one thinking skill and use it to create an anchoring activity.
- State three benefits of social learning.
- Explain the benefits of using scenarios as anchoring activities.
- State one benefit of “grounding” students in their learning experiences.
- Contrast “segmental anchoring” with “end of class anchoring.”
- Describe two considerations when planning anchoring activities.
- List two methods for anchoring hands-on skill learning.
- List three ways to anchor segments of a lecture.
- List three ways to anchor learning at the end of class.
- Use the Anchoring Menu to inspire active learning in your classroom.
Video Presentation: Watch a beautifully designed video presentation of the course material.
Text: The text describes everything discussed in the presentation with additional information for those who want to dive deeper.
Anchoring Menu: Use the Anchoring Menu for ongoing inspiration with more than 40 unique activities that improve learning outcomes.
Samples and Examples: Download sample worksheets or use example material immediately to enhance classroom learning experiences.
On-Demand: Watch the presentation within minutes of registration and pass the quiz to obtain a certificate for CE reporting.
Mobile: Access your course on a desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone with internet access.
Text Translation: English as a second language? Instantly translate the text to your native language.
Category: Teacher Training
CE Hours: 2
CE Approvals: Approved by NCBTMB and all states that accept NCBTMB-approved CE. Please note this course is NOT approved by Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New York.
Subscription Period: Ongoing access.
After Purchase: The course is free, but you must go through the purchasing process to register. You will NOT need a credit card. Once you complete the purchasing process, log on to massagemastery.online with your email and password. The course will be waiting for you on your dashboard. Click the course access button and follow the directions.
Introduction: We define anchoring and outline the components of the course.
Memory Processes: We learn how different types of instructional strategies aid aspects of memory processes. We come to understand how anchoring strategies intersect with other instructional methods.
Anchoring Strategies: We categorize anchoring activities by the way in which they support student knowledge acquisition and retention. We make sure students comprehend lesson segments, ensure they apply thinking skills, personalize content, use social-learning practices, and make learning more active and fun.
Anchoring Technique Classes: In this segment, we talk about three primary anchoring strategies that improve technique learning and ensure students know what to practice and how to practice for maximum skill acquisition.
Anchoring Theory Content and Classes: Depending on the complexity of the material, we'll choose the places in our lesson where we need anchoring and mix and match methods based on the content. Teachers find that some anchoring activities can replace lecture time to make classes more active and enjoyable.
Get Started with Anchoring: We identify a class that doesn't produce the learning outcomes we wish and add anchoring to this class. Soon, we're adding anchoring methods to every class because they improve student learning.
Anchoring Menu: We peruse the activities in the Anchoring Menu and use the more than 40 activities to ensure our classes are active, effective, and enjoyable.