Table 5

School personnel’s views on training challenges and recommendation on improving future PAX training

Challenge	Possible improvement/change	Key informant statement
Trainings held in school gym makes it hard for participants to hear the trainers properly	Trainings can be held in classrooms	Maybe a smaller environment ‘cause we had it in the gym hey, ‘cause it was big. And it’s better if you had it in a big classroom or something. (S1-I5)
Middle years teachers felt some of the training were meant for early years classrooms	Separate, tailored training for teachers of early and middle years teachers	I think that it would be good if they had two separate trainings, one for the early years and one for the middle years. Just because I found that the training that they had here, it was more directed towards the, the younger grades. (S1-I6)
Pace is too fast when there was only one whole school training	Slow down the pace, and break down the training to several sessions Provide webinars to allow staff to learn on their own time Opportunity to observe seasoned teachers in their classrooms	I would probably need more training. That one training just wasn’t sufficient. So that might help and I think I’d really want to see a good PAX class. Just go and observe a PAX class. (S2-I5)