AFMTE Needs Your Feedback

The Alliance for Massage Therapy Education (AFMTE) has released a draft of its Assessments Table for Standard One of the Core Competencies and is asking for public feedback through a brief 12-question survey.

The Assessments Table combined with the Core Competencies form the framework around which the committee will then create the curriculum content for a Model Massage and Bodywork Teacher Training program—the next phase in AFMTE’s National Teacher Education Standards Project.  

The Assessments Table was designed by the National Teacher Training Curriculum Development Committee of the AFMTE to be used in coordination with the Core Competencies for Massage Therapy and Bodywork Teachers. It is a template to guide the user through the process of demonstrating competence in each of the standards.

View the Assessments Table for Standard One here, and then take the survey here.

 

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