Promoting Attention & Interests
Our classrooms have a lot of competition out there. Teachers compete with cell phones, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, video games, and everything else available with one click of a button.
Our students are overstimulated and our teachers overwhelmed as they endeavor to get their students interested and involved in the curricula. Paradoxically, it is our own lessons that teach students when they can be off-task! The notions that fairness and that everyone must participate the very same way, often create habits and gaps in student attention in the classroom.
The good news is that promoting attention and interest is immediately doable!
Differentiated Instruction Benefits for Students
- Students in student-centered, differentiated classrooms enjoy a number of advantages over those in traditional “one-size fits all” approach settings. Students are able to be active participants in their own learning.
- The curriculum is no longer pointed to the middle of the group but available and accessible to all students. Those students that found a traditional classroom lesson too difficult or something they had already learned which led to feeling “bored” or “not engaged” are now excited about their learning.
- Students receive the content and curriculum in ways that ensure they are engaged. This engagement allows students to connect and learn the content, not just get exposed to it.
Teachers will know...
...practical methods to build interest with students
...how to motivate the unmotivated
...how to use Storytelling for Project-Based Learning
...how to grab and keep student interest
...how to incorporate fun and divergent ways of learning
...how to develop critical thinking in the student’s approach to learning
...how this can be modified for all kids and communities
...how to become real to their students
...how to use human graphing to get immediate feedback from students
...how to quickly assess how effective their lesson is going
If schools were permitted to have just one training, Classroom Management is the one!
This training will help to raise test scores for your students, decrease discipline challenges, and improve classroom rapport. You will learn how to meet students where they are and lead them where they need to be, capture attention, and promote deeper learning. You will also learn...
- How to not take the “debate bait” when challenged.
- How to teach to expectations and set your students up for success.
- How to ask and GET what you want 90% of the time.
- How to arrange the classroom for maximum performance.
- And, how to form relationships that will turn your most challenging children into your biggest allies.