TIME TO REFLECT ON OUR BELIEFS
(Excerpts from our book which you receive at the seminar)
Belief #1: Times have changed.
Belief #2: Teachers are doing an incredible job.
Belief #3: “Kids don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
Belief #4: Good discipline is a matter of good timing.
Belief #5: Conflict is an essential part of growing up.
Belief #6: Parenting affects behavior.
Belief #7: We cannot use poor parenting as an excuse for not teaching.
Belief #8: Problem behavior can entrap us.
Belief #9: Curriculum comes first, but discipline does, too!
Belief #10: Self-esteem matters.
Belief #11: Students do not necessarily know how to behave.
Belief #12: Classroom rules and routines need to be systematically taught.
Belief #13: Teaching succeeds where punishment fails.
Belief #14: We need an effective consequence for low-level misbehavior.
Belief #15: An effective discipline program teaches responsible behavior.
Belief #16: We can make a difference to every child.
Teachers have amazing power for good in the lives of children. We need to trust our own powers, to hone our already considerable skills, to give proven methods a chance, and to trust in our own abilities to teach and our students’ abilities to learn. In the realm of discipline as well as in the realm of academics, truly it is time to teach!
Teachers have the hardest job in America. Among all the tasks that we juggle, two are paramount – curriculum and discipline. Neither is more important, nor can one be effective without the other. We give you the solution to effective classroom discipline and easy-to-implement differentiation strategies so that you can have more time to teach!
Our classroom management seminars are attended by new teachers, seasoned teachers, administrators, specialists, both special and general education teachers, and parents. Our seminar is especially popular with discipline committees and school-wide groups interested in improving student scores.
Our nationally recognized instructors teach innovative and highly effective discipline and differentiation strategies at seminars and education conferences, in schools and districts, and are helping teachers everywhere! You will find our seminars to be a breath of fresh air. Our “active duty” K-12 teacher-trainers live “in the trenches” on a daily basis and pride themselves in successfully using the research based strategies they teach to you in their own classrooms.
You will receive highly practical and proven strategies which can be immediately implemented when you return to your classroom. Teachers and administrators who evaluate our training say that we are redefining teaching and learning in schools by providing powerful, easy-to-use, teacher friendly strategies that immediately improve classroom behavior and that help teachers address diverse learning needs to promote motivation and a desire to learn in all. See our “testimonial” pages.
Our 1 day seminar participants leave with a 200+ page comprehensive classroom management Resource Handbook filled with teacher lesson plans, ideas, and easy-to-implement strategies and our 2 day seminar participants leave with an additional 100+ page comprehensive differentiated instruction Resource Handbook also filled with teacher lesson plans, ideas, and easy-to-implement strategies! Finally, our leading edge strategies are designed for any grade level and student profile and our sensible, respectful, and powerful and will forever improve your classroom and give you more time to teach and your students more time to learn. You will receive all of this and can also take the course for up to three semester elective graduate credits.
