INTERNATIONAL TRAINING PRACTICUM

International Training Practicum, Lineville Campus
Fall 2007 Training: September 1- November 9

The SIFAT international training practicum is a ten week session in whichcommunity leaders from all over the world study community development from a Christian perspective with appropriate technologies as tools. Students learn to be facilitators for total, integrated development of body, mind and spirit in individuals and communities.

Upon successful completion of the program requirements, students will receive a certificate in Christian Community Development and Appropriate Technologies.

Objectives: Graduates of the training practicum should
1. Understand the importance of being a holistic witness for Jesus Christ;
2. Have the tools to organize and facilitate the holistic development of a group or community, and be motivated to do so;
3. Know how to initiate and carry out a SIFAT training seminar and practicum

SIFAT training practicums are also offered in Ecuador and the Philippines

A short-term internship from three months to one year is available for students who successfully complete the practicum. Interns put into practice all they have learned by serving in the Third World under a SIFAT-trained or approved national Christian worker.

The following classes are offered to help students accomplish the objectives of Summer Practicum 2007. All classes are required for a practicum diploma.

Christian Leadership Formation
Goal: Understand the importance of being a holistic witness for Christ and develop the skills to resolve conflicts in a Biblical manner.
Classes:
Christian Discipleship,
Spiritual Formation,
Relationships with self,
Relationships with Others (incudes conflict resolution),
Relationships with God
Relationships with Creation

Community Development
Goal: Acquire the tools to organize and facilitate the development of a group or community.
Classes:
Theology of Development
Principles of Development
Processes of Development
Women in Development
Development and the Enviornment
Development in Cross-Cultural Situations
Obstacles to Development
Strategies of Development

Appropriate Technology
Goal: Equip students with skills and resources in technologies for specific needs
Classes:

• Agriculture Equipment (CSD rice thresher, barrell fresno, manual corn sheller, gravity grain cleaner, level with carpenter's level)
• Manual Wood Working Tools (CSD wood turning lathe, CSD bench tool grinder, CSD folding tool grinder, CSD press drill, light duty jigsaw, deep throat jigsaw)
• Household Technologies (sawdust heating stove, sawdust cook stove, barrel heating stove, solar cookers, solar cookit, charcoal oven)
• Spinning and Weaving Equipment (CSD cotton/wool spinner, CSD wool spinner with flyer, CSD bobbin winder/spinner, yarn baller, string maker, roller cotton gin, brush cotton gin, hand cards for carding wool, wool combs for combing wool, table loom, inkle loom, card/tablet weaving)
• Construction (CinvaRam block machine, plastic sheet concrete mixer, beehive building construction, plastic tube land level, A-frame level, floating block level)
• Pumps and Pumping (hydraulic ram, inertia pump, rope and washer pump, rope pump, shallow well PVC pump, deep well cylinder PVC pump, slow sentrifugal pump, pumping with a garden hose)
• Handicrafts (knitting board, chain knitting spool, pump drill for holes in seeds, needle weaving, hot pad frames, toymaking, jigsaw puzzle maps of countries)
• Miscellaneous Technologies (orange juice pasteurizer, chain link fence maker, fuel briquette press, bicycle pulley drive system, spring maker, rope making)

International Health
Goal: Understand and be able to address primary health care principles that greatly impact community health in the Third World.
Classes:
Child Survival
Safe Motherhood
Nutrition / Malnutrition
Water & Sanitation
Population Issues
Traditional Medicine
Where There is no Doctor
Major Tropical Diseases
First Aid
Community Health Promotion
Health Communication Methods
Community Organizing for Health
The Church: Addressing HIV and AIDS
Training of Trainers I (Medical Ambassadors International)

Introduction to Microenterprise
Goal: Understand and be able to implement skills crucial to program success.
Classes:
Microenterprise
Microfinance
Cooperatives
Administration & Management
Bookkeeping Basics

Communications and Computers in Ministry
Goal: Increase computer skills to promote ministry and ability to communicate.
Classes:

• Introduction to Computers (for beginners)
• Desktop Publishing
• PowerPoint presentations
• The World Wide Web
  • email as a communication tool
  • development information search techniques
  • introduction to webpage design
  • accessing agency and grant information online
• Photography
  • photography skills for publications
  • digital photography
• Optional Class: using Excel for record-keeping and accounting

Organizing for Action
Goal: Understand and practice crucial skills to help lead communities into action, monitor effectiveness of action, and evaluate the process.
Classes:
Analysis of Community Structure
Community Needs and Resource Assessment
Program Planning
Proposal Writing
Project Management
Monitoring and Evaluation
Development Agencies and Agents

Principles and Methods of Teaching Adults
Goal: Learn how to initiate and carry out training events and courses--possibly a SIFAT Training Seminar, Workshop or Practicum.
Classes:
Assessments of Needs
Recruitment of Students
Selection of Courses and Teachers
Methods of Teaching Adults
Teaching Aids

Adult Literacy
Project Light is a program that teaches a second language, (eg. English as a second language), while developing computer skills.

Sustainable Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Emphasis is on organic techniques to enrich the soil and improve food yeild and quantity in an ecologically sound and sustainable way. Included are composting, natural fertilizers, pest control, erosion control, and drip irrigation. Animal husbandry is integrated into the over-all food production plan for protein, fertilizer and microenterprise for income. Included are raising rabbits and guinea pigs, fish culture, beekeeping, preparation for locations without a vet, and more.

 

 

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