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When school districts decide what to filter on their computers, or what websites and electronic material to “screen out,” it can be controversial. Some educators find most Internet material obnoxious and prefer almost everything blocked and some teachers find the filters annoying and counterproductive to their teaching.
After a 45-minute period that’s packed with objectives and activities, you don’t always know if your students mastered the objectives or not. Inside the School’s 20 minute trainer How can I end a lesson so that I know whether my students “got it” offers you practical teaching techniques on lesson plan closure that can help your students retain the information from one day to the next.
When the bell rings to start class, are your students in their seats and working or are they chatting with friends while you take roll, hand back papers, and manage students returning from an absence?
If your lessons emerge out of chaos, it’s time to think about capturing your students’ attention for learning during those crucial first minutes of class.
How to Keep Students’ Attention when Switching Activities includes quick hints, productive steps to take when switching activities and a big picture view to keep your lesson plan on time and your students focused. This 20-Minute Trainer will not only help you complete your objectives but will give the students a great lesson in understanding the importance of staying on task.
You have a 45-minute class period and three activities planned for your students. But every day it’s the same story: you have more activities than you have time. It’s a struggle to settle students in groups and start them working.
Presenter Nathan Eklund, M.Ed. will help you clearly define the professional roles that you’re able to fulfill and isolate the roles that are burdening you. You will be able to shape your day and work experiences around the positive teaching segments that make you feel successful and in control. Eklund will discuss how to find a solid balance between the “actual” work of teaching with the “other” work of teaching that can build up and negatively impact teachers’ performance and mind-set.
All of us depersonalize our students when we’re at the ends of our ropes and we find that those ends are frayed. Depersonalization happens for many reasons like dealing with high expectations, unmotivated students or lack of appreciation. Inside the School’s 20-Minute Trainer; How Can I Prevent Depersonalizing my Students? will guide you to positive attitudes and behaviors towards students, parents and colleagues. Having positive relationships with these groups is critical to maintaining good personal health and organizational effectiveness.
Teacher emotional exhaustion is when teachers feel that they can no longer give of themselves to students as they did earlier in their careers. Inside the School’s 20-Minute Trainer How Can I Prevent Emotional Exhaustion? will help you reconnect with your passion that originally drew you to the profession. Presenter Nathan Eklund, M.Ed. uses his experiences as a high school teacher and coach to explain ways to overcome this sense of exhaustion by identifying areas that are “energy- giving” rather than “energy-taking.”
Sometimes they stand awkwardly at the doorway and don’t do anything. Some can help a student like Sam focus on a lesson and stop bothering the girls. Some can be very loud and bossy. Others can make sure the back of the line is just as well behaved as the front of the line. Some can be tattle-tales. I’m not referring to students . . . I’m talking about classroom volunteers.
Comedian Fred Allen once joked a committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Joking aside, an organization that effectively uses strong committees understands the power they can have. The trouble is that forming a strong and influential group is easier said then done. Inside the School’s 20-Minute Trainer: How Can School Committees Be More Effective? identifies how to select a committee, how to establish a time frame for meetings, how to choose committee leadership, how to set the goals and how to dissolve the committee.
Maybe the worst part of a bad attitude is that often it’s contagious and spreads through a faculty like a virus. Many people have experienced a cold, unfriendly and negative climate. Fortunately, most people have worked in an atmosphere that is warm, welcoming and positive. Everybody prefers the latter.
All employees deserve honest and candid feedback so they can improve job performance. Delivering candid feedback is not fun and usually not someone’s strong suit. Yet, it is an important part of being a manager. The 20-Minute Trainer: Giving News No One Wants to Hear will walk you through the necessary steps to give clear and succinct feedback.
The Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis says that large differences in language lead to large differences in experience and thought. It goes on to say that each language embodies a worldview, with different languages embodying different views, so that speakers of different languages think about the world in different ways.
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