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01 Welcome to OrthoTraining

02 Easy Online Learning

03 Easy Teaching and Mentoring

04 Select the Courses You Want to Learn

05 Learn at your own Pace

06 What do you learn from OrthoTraining?

What do we do?

We automate online teaching and learning to fully train the Orthodontic Assistant and other orthodontic professionals. We also train dental professionals in basic orthodontics so they will know when to

Refer a patient to an orthodontist
Observe a patient
Deliver limited orthodontic treatment

How do we automate teaching so that a student learns?

We use specially-designed online presentations that teach the objectives of a course. We do this by asking interactive “teaching questions” about an important concept and give correct feedback to the student. After sleeping, the student has 2 attempts to pass at 80% a “Knowledge Quiz” to assess learning. These questions have no feedback. All student clicks are tracked and timed and used to calculate a final score for the course, which is reported on a Student Dashboard Report. Then the student attends hands-on training given by a trained mentor using step-by-step checklists that are the same steps as those that are taught in the online course.

Learning Online Made Easy

OrthoTraining presentations are “neuroscientifically” designed so that you learn faster and remember the important concepts (course objectives) longer. What does this mean? Research in brain “learning” has revealed that you have to interact with a concept in order to create new “memory proteins” in the brain’s cells. Interaction might be listing the steps of a task, asking and then answering a question correctly, performing a procedure correctly, and “thinking” about the important concept. OrthoTraining presentations, Knowledge Quizzes, and Clinical Performance Training Checklists are designed to help you learn quickly so you can accurately recall the information later when you need it.

Teaching With OrthoTraining Courses

The OrthoTraining method moves the educator from “the 19th-century one-room school house with one teacher responsible to teach all subjects to 25 students” to the “global classroom offering courses written by experts in their fields “teaching” interactively with each student and measuring each student’s learning so that a local mentor who cares about that student may help the student as needed.” What does this approach to teaching mean for the individual educator? Teachers become mentors. Their roles change from grading a student to helping a student learn. Mentors “brush up” on a course they are going to “teach” by taking the online course before the students take the course. This way, mentors become standardized in their knowledge with what the students will be learning so they know the issues the students may have with the course material. Mentors have their learning activities tracked as well, so they know the process the students are going to go through and how measuring learning works. The “teacher” becomes a mentor guiding the student, rather than a critic challenging the student. The student has the responsibility of learning the material. The student is held accountable for learning by the data reported on the Student’s Dashboard. Course grades are not “given” by the teacher. The data that measures the student’s learning activities determines the student’s grade for the course.

Your Knowledge Profile

OrthoTraining has many specially-designed courses. You and your Mentor can select the group of courses that will be in your “Knowledge Profile” for you to learn, and can also set the time you think you will need to complete your courses, setting your own deadline. Research has shown that students are more motivated to start and focus their learning if they set their own goals. In education today, the teacher sets the deadline and students wait until the last minute to cram for the exam. When students pass an exam, they can then forget everything! They did not learn the material. When you complete a group of Knowledge Profile courses using the OrthoTraining method of learning and demonstrating what you have learned, you can then add other groups of courses and add more time to learn, setting new deadlines. Learning is not rushed. You control what you want to learn and how much time you think you will need.

Selecting The Amount Of Time You Need To Learn

All of us learn at our own pace. Some of us take more time, especially if we have had no experience with the topic. Also, if the language the course is taught in is not our native language, we will need more time to process the new words and information. If this is the case for you, you can “rewind and review” a section of a course until you really learn it and can explain the concept in your own words accurately. Some of us have had a lot of experience and breeze through many courses just refining what we know already. So, if you breeze through a course you can move on to the next one quickly taking much less time than average. With OrthoTraining courses, you can sign up for a month at a time and then add a month when you know you will need it. This also encourages you to be focused and efficient in your learning, starting it early, paying attention, answering questions correctly, and doing the work of learning.

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Orthodontic Assistant Courses

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The OrthoTraining Orthodontic Assistant 60-Day Apprenticeship Program

OrthoTraining offers a 60-day Orthodontic Assistant Apprenticeship Program that comprehensively trains orthodontic assistant student's in-office preparing them to perform at the highest-level clinically in the practice and meet state licensure requirements. It is intended for individuals who want to be chairside orthodontic assistants and who will be employed by a state-specialty-licensed orthodontist.

These trained individuals place braces, change orthodontic wires, assess patient progress, adjust a patient's orthodontic appliance following the doctor's instructions, and safely remove the braces and place retainers under the doctor's supervision. This training teaches the highest standard of performance of the procedures to protect patient safety.

This program is implemented and administered by a trained Mentor, an individual who is experienced in these procedures, has completed and learned the OrthoTraining Orthodontic Assistant 60-Day Apprenticeship Program, and has completed the OrthoTraining Mentor Training Course for Orthodontic Assistants.

These are The OrthoTraining Orthodontic Assistant 60-Day Apprenticeship Program courses and CE Credits awarded by OrthoTraining since it is an approved provider of ADA-CERP CE credits:

OrthoTraining Chairside Orthodontic Assistant Courses

Credits

10.03-Introduction to OrthoTraining

60.11-Separators

60.12-Orthodontic Banding

60.20-Orthodontic Bonding (9 sub-courses)

60.21 Orthodontic Bonding Introduction

60.22 Bonding-Chapter 1-Benefits, 2-Criteria, 3-Bracket Identification, 4-Bracket Components

60.23 Bonding-Chapter 5-How do braces move teeth, Chapter 6-Preparingteeth for Bonding

60.24 Bonding-Chapter 7-Adhesion Enhancers, Chapter 8-Sealants, Chapter 9-Adhesive Pastes

60.25 Bonding-Chapter 10: Sequence of Bracket Placement

60.26 Bonding-Bracket Placement and Final Positioning for ideal Alignment and Function

60.27 Bonding-Chapter 11-Bonding Difficult Areas, Chapter 12-Bond Troubleshooting, Chapter 13-Rebonding

60.28 Bonding: Chapter 14-Bonding to Composite, 15-Bonding to Porcelain, 16-Bonding to Metal

60.29 Review Course-Orthodontic Bonding Second Molar to Second Molar

60.41-Orthodontic Wires Basics

60.42-initial Ortho Wire Insertion

60.51-Retie Appointment

60.61-Orthodontic Debanding

TOTAL CREDITS

These are the courses in the Orthodontic Basics 8-Week Mini-Course Program: