The Best School Systems Invest in Teachers

Mount Laurel's Dinoto Karate Center Invests in their Teachers!
On May 20th and 21st, Dinoto Karate Center's Master Erika Dinoto and Master Peter Liciaga will be traveling to Trenton NJ to participate in workshops on martial arts school management, organization and student services. These workshops will insure that Dinoto Karate Center continues to be the number one family martial arts center in Mount Laurel NJ.

Master Erika Dinoto and Master Liciaga will then share what they learn with all instructors and CIT members.

To see what our Dinoto Karate Center teachers curriculum, visit our Certified Instructor Training Resource Site HERE

How the Best School Systems Invest in Teachers

Article: NEW YORK, March 16, 2011—When the rankings of the best school systems in the world were released earlier this year, Americans were shocked: our former number one standing slipped again, this time to number 26.

The rankings showed a new trend: the highest-performing school systems in the world are mostly in Asia.

What are the Asian school systems doing right? And what can the United States learn? Asia Society invited top education ministers from China, Hong Kong SAR, Japan and Singapore, to sound off on these questions.

There was no lively debate. The answer was clear: invest in teachers.

[[read full article at http://asiasociety.org/education-learning/learning-world/how-best-school-systems-invest-teachers ]

Mount Laurel Martial Arts School Designs Curriculum for Karate Teachers

Mount Laurel New Jersey's Dinoto Karate Center creates a new curriculum exclusively for martial arts teachers.

One of the unique features of Dinoto Karate Center is it's Certified Instructor Training program (CIT). The CIT program not only offers our students more advanced techniques and higher-level training but offers them the opportunity to become certified as officially licensed instructors at our academy. They are also offered the opportunity to become a staff member and earn a living from their martial arts. This program is a fantastic idea. We believe that no one should be instructing a karate class in the name of any organization without having received a certificate of approval from a reputable martial arts academy.

Certification should be a prerequisite for being an instructor. It makes no sense for a martial arts school to allow someone to instruct as a karate instructor when they have not been qualified to lead and run a class.

Furthermore, it would be intelligent --and make good sense-- if there were programs designed to ensure that the people who teach martial arts were qualified in a few specific areas:

• Basic communicational skills
• Basic health
• Basic nutrition
• Basic instruction for all ages (as young as 3 years old!)
• Basic exercise
• First aid & CPR
• Class curriculum design
• Class organization
• Technical diagnosis
• Basic coaching / mentoring
• Basic business principles

Are these topics given any attention at all in the current offerings of instructor training in the martial arts schools in your community?

Visit our instructors website HERE.

For more information about this and other programs, please visit us at http://www.dinotokarate.com/ or call us at 856-235-0414.

Leaderhship Lesson #1 From Master Dinoto

Know the difference between Positive Thinking versus Positive Knowing.

Positive Thinking is wishing or hoping; positive knowing is when you absolutely know that know matter what, you will succeed.

To learn more on how to develop this and other skills and techniques, ask about our Leadership and CIT programs.