Time To Teach
Inservice Seminar Agenda
Your on-site seminar agenda is customized to fit the needs of your school. Below is a typical agenda for an on-site inservice seminar:
8:30 AM - Noon
Maintaining a keen & calm mental set for classroom management
- Learn to "read the room" and swiftly, positively, gracefully nullify challenges.
- Predict and avert problem situations before they surface.
- See and take the right course of action when challenged.
- Detect and correct classroom problems without stopping your teaching.
- Avoid power struggles: Identify and eliminate your trigger and theirs too!
- Avoid "violating and agitating" by accidentally invading personal space.
- Set limits which are proportional, logical, reasonable, and fair.
- Appear "strong and comforting" to your pupils.
Properly arranging & designing the classroom environment
- Learn the "Teaching Power Position" and understand where you should and should not be.
- Eliminate positions in the classroom where students will successfully challenge you.
- Keep your students visually focused on top classroom priorities.
- Position and arrange yourself and your students for maximum academic performance.
- Learn fifteen POWERFUL desk arrangements from traditional to unorthodox.
Teaching-to & enforcing rules and procedures
- Transform "unsocialized" kids into top classroom performers.
- Teach students to behave appropriately in class and in social settings.
- Learn why teaching behavior is as critical as teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic.
- Teach to rules and routines in order to zoom through the curriculum like never before.
- Teach students how to peacefully coexist in your classroom.
- Teach students how to make the best use of their time and listen attentively.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Firmly but fairly carrying out disciplinary actions
- Never again give multiple warnings or repeated requests!
- Stop letting minor and major challenges over run important teaching time.
- Start getting what is important to you.
- Learn how to ask once and get what you want.
- Stop hiding from difficult students or situations.
- Start teaching every student with confidence and success.
- Learn how to meet challenges head-on with respect, power, and confidence.
- Stop letting minor discipline issues side-track y our important lessons.
- Start handling, even benefiting, from any negative classroom situation that arises.
- Detect and correct events before they surface!
Building & maintaining strong student & teacher relationships
- Learn how to build and maintain trust with challenging children.
- Connect with combative students and lower their "melting points."
- Reach at-risk children and turn them into productive classroom members.
- Energize apathetic students and have them working like never before.
- Support disenchanted youth and rekindle their passion to succeed.
- Teach with passion and manage with compassion!
- Make sure every student feels like a guaranteed member!
Bringing it all together
- Manage the out-of-control student: Use five immediate steps to regain classroom control.
- Eliminate arguments, multiple warnings, and repeated requests forever.
- Say good-bye to classroom management approaches that make more work for you, the teacher.
- Be the boss.
- Earn respect.
- Command center stage.
- Wipe out misbehavior.
- Increase positive behavior.
- Maximize student learning.
- Never again "drain valuable teaching time" on matters of discipline!
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