A Day at the Seminar
"In just one day, a better way!"
This outstanding seminar offers proven solutions to the "discipline problem." For any grade level or student profile, this sensible, respectful, and powerful school discipline program will forever improve your behavior management and give you more Time To Teach. Much more than just college professors with lofty ideals and fancy theory, Center trainers are also active duty K-12 teachers and administrators who are reshaping America's college preparatory classes - while living "in the trenches" on a daily basis.
Time to Teach training is not only effective--it's also a chance to interact, network and have fun with other teaching professionals.
Time to Teach - One-Day-Seminar Schedule
Continental Breakfast (provided by the Center)
Introduction - Time To Teach!
- Implementing and Maintaining a Positive Classroom and School Climate
- Effective Classroom Behavior Management: Essential Elements
- Everybody wins! A proven strategy to create a "high performance" classroom
- Trust: how to establish it, with children from kindergarten through 12thgrade!
- How to teach with passion manage with compassion
- Stand your ground, or walk away? How to see the right course of action!
- Three vital "ingredients" for creating a rewarding, successful classroom
- Classroom Arrangement and Positioning of Students
- Scoring big by rearranging your classroom "setup"
- Building a relaxing atmosphere
- Channeling the force: how arranging your classroom can improve motivation and direction
Communicating With Students
- Stop letting conflict overrun important teaching time
- Start getting what's important to you
- Learn how to forge compromise you and your students can live with!
- Stop "hiding out" from difficult students or situations
- Start teaching any student with confidence and success
- Learn how to be a master teacher and never allow yourself to be sidetracked again!
- Stop letting challenging students drain your teaching energy
- Start handling--even benefiting from--any negative classroom situation that arises
- Learn a lot of tricks that will set the stage for the best year you have ever had!
Self-Control
- Respond with a level head, even if you're ready to "blow a fuse"
- Adapt to classroom changes--even those that are tough to swallow
- Stick with tough challenges when solutions don't come easily
- Follow through on plans and turn "good intentions" into classroom reality
- Bring more discipline into your classroom--creating healthier routines and relationships
- Emotional "first aid" -- save yourself when you feel your frustration level building
REFOCUS™
- Learn about the most powerful solution to problem behavior ever developed!
- Make, literally, any event a positive one
- Predict a problem situation way before it reaches an unproductive stage -and avert it entirely!
- How to meet challenging students head on and reach a mutual understanding!
Lunch Break
Taking it Classroom-Wide and/or School-Wide
- Build a classroom of students or school that consistently performs at its best
- Reward your students in more motivating ways
- Detect and correct performance problems
- Keep your students focused on top priorities
- Turn difficult students into allies
- Become a respected member of your school staff
- Learn how noise, crowds, heat, waiting, and other external forces can generate misbehavior
- Be the expert to make it happen school-wide!
Serious and Challenging Behavior
- Dispel common assumptions about conflict
- How to avoid being "your own worst enemy"
- Stress and anger: Identify and eliminate your "trigger" and theirs too!
- Facing the "out of control" student: 5 immediate steps you should take to help gain control
Overall:
- Eliminate Arguments
- Discipline with success as you teach students to take immediate responsibility for their own behavior.
- Say good-bye to classroom management approaches that make more work for you, the teacher
- Create a predictable nurturing classroom that fosters learning, while engaging reluctant learners
- Be the boss and earn respect at the same time
- Extend the "honeymoon" period
- Learn how to teach expectations and academics simultaneously, and enjoy your best year ever
- Increase positive behavior
- Wipe out misbehavior
- Arrange your classroom to minimize disruption
- Capture student attention
- "Hook" kids with an array of powerful, energizing prompting procedures
You will also receive…
- A detailed Time To Teach! Resource Handbook
- Materials that can be reproduced immediately for classroom use and staff development
- Critically important teaching techniques that will make you shine!
- The solution to creating a happy, fun, and high performing classroom
- The coveted Time To Teach! list of essential skills possessed by highly effective teachers
- Step-by-step guidelines to improve student behavior and maximize student learning