Promoting Positive Feelings
We know that students come into our classrooms and schools with different backgrounds and cultures, cognitive abilities, skills, and experiences.
Sometimes the only thing students have in common is their age, and even those fall somewhere within a range! When students feel alienated, alone, and unsure about what is going on in school, the struggle to adapt to and perform in the classroom. In an age where drama and social media rule the day, it is important to remember students will be more ready and willing to learn when they feel positive about their classroom experience. The strategies I teach in this training set the stage for that to occur.
Differentiated Instruction Beliefs
- All students are different.
- Differentiated instruction is the implementation of strategies to reach multiple learning styles and intelligences.
- Students should be taught content in the best way that they learn.
- Differentiated instruction is for all learners! Big or small, experienced or young, all learners deserve the best opportunity to learn.
- Differentiated instruction should be used in every lesson we teach and can be delivered in small groups or whole group!
- In order to be fair to all students we must differentiate their learning and our instruction.
- Students have different modalities of learning.
- Depth of knowledge is as important as breadth of knowledge.
- Students need a reasonable amount of pressure to perform at peak academic levels.
- Not all kids learn the same information at the same time or even at the same rate. Not all teachers teach the same and not all curricula can be taught the same. (Robinson, 2008)
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.