At the moment there are two main
societies confirming the competence of
trainers - Polish Psychological Association
and the Association of Trainers NGO.
The exact requirements that these
institutions have to trainers applying
for certificates they issue are available
on the websites:
www.ptp.org.pl
www.stowarzyszeniestop.pl
Plano A: Actually in Portugal there are
300.000 registered trainers in the
National Trainers Association, though
many of them use the activity as a
second job, something else other than
that person’s main job and many don’t
actually work as trainers.
Personally I’m critical about the methods
to the determine a trainer.
The portuguese law requires the 90 hours CCP
certification, after which you’re considered
to be a certified trainer. I believe that to
be a good trainer, like being a teacher,
it’s necessary to have not only the
technical knowledge that is validated by
the CCP but also the social and relational
skills and to be able to adapt to different
contexts of training, an example: training
in the topic of Tourism in a vocational
High School is completely different than
doing it for long term unemployed adults
or as professional training in a company.
I believe that after a trainer achieves his
professional competence certification, his
social and relational competences are still
to be determined.
https://netforce.iefp.pt/pt-pt/wpg/Home/FPIF
What is the duration, possible prices
for certifications?
POZNAN: It is difficult to define precise
duration of the certification process.
To receive a recommendation from the
Polish Psychological Association (currently
the most popular in Poland) you need
to complete the appropriate training
duration (min. 10 months - in our school:
230 hours of lessons), held interpersonal
training and conduct yourself at least
10 two-day workshops in the area of
developing soft skills.
Two of them must be under the supervision
of the recommended level II trainer and
certified supervisor. A recommendation
is granted by the trainers on the basis of
secondary trainer and supervisor.
The recommendation fee is about 550zł
(140 euros) but it is not a complete cost
that you have to pay. Besides paying
for one of the program of Training for
Trainers-cost around 1500 euros to get
a recommendation from PTP you must
be a member of the Association and thus
pay the membership fee alon g with the
registration fee (a total of 120 zł- 30 euros).
For supervision, also you need to pay.
The presence of trainer second degree and
supervisor for training lasting 16 hours
costs about 100-300 zł / h. (25 - 75 euros)
Plano A: The CCP certification takes 90
hours and it’s pricing depends on the
method. The price range goes in between
the 225 to 300 euro, depending of the
entity delivering it and there’s also the
cheaper elearning method, that in this
particular case I don’t think it answers
effectively the learning necessities of
trainer by not having the extremely useful
in presence assignments and evaluations.
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