Too many of our students complete school and are ill-prepared to be successful in their futures. Educators are preparing students for obsolete futures. We must ensure that we reduce learning gaps and increase the achievement options for more students – thus enhancing the future for everyone.
A 3-part series to help teachers understand the complexities of ADHD and LDs, how to engage these students, and how to create a system of support so they can succeed in your classroom and beyond.
This online seminar will give you ways to prevent school violence before it erupts. Learn how to identify a school shooter from an angry student. Learn how to measure emerging aggression in students. The US Secret Service and US Dept. of Education (Safe School Initiative) explain that you cannot profile a school shooter; you must instead identify an emerging aggressor. In this online seminar you will learn how!
The declining graduation rate of black males is a national problem and getting worse. The current high school graduation rate for black males hovers around the 50% mark according to the Open Society Institute’s Campaign for Black Male Achievement. This trend can be reversed with the commitment of educators who can influence these young men and encourage them to succeed.
Currently, more than one third of all students from 5th-12th grade report gang activity at their schools. Breaking Barriers: Reducing Gang Violence, Improving Security and Creating a Culture of Learning in Schools will highlight original analyses of nearly 4,600 students who completed the National Crime Victimization Study – School Crime Supplement. From that study educators will learn ways to guide students away from gang violence and towards academic success.
Classroom Management Tips addresses classroom management concerns and gives you dozens of strategies to improve lessons and eliminate disruption that you can apply to your classroom situation immediately.
Cyberbullying is not a trend that is going to disappear any time soon. As personal computers, cell phones, and the Internet become more popular, the opportunity for teens and preteens to pick on each other via these channels increases. It’s important to understand why students cyberbully each other and know how to respond when you find about these situations going on among your students. And it’s essential to know how to approach this subject with your students and help prevent cyberbullying from occurring in the first place.
Teachers have taken courses in classroom management, but they are often unprepared for the “parent management” part of their jobs. As parents become more demanding, teachers become more stressed, even to the point of leaving the profession. Clear and frequent communication with parents before problems arise is key, and developing a skill set to work with parents can help teachers feel more confident and competent in dealing with this growing aspect of their jobs.
According to Dr. Allen Mendler, author and expert on student discipline, students really do want to learn. It’s just a matter of tapping into their desire to learn and encouraging them to stay on task.
Discipline with Dignity is an approach to behavior management that offers research-based methods for preventing discipline problems and effective interventions for discipline problems when they occur. Discipline with Dignity’s goal is getting students to want to behave.
College is an important life step. And it becomes more important each year as the knowledge economy gets more and more competitive. At the same time, demographic trends are making college admissions more and more competitive. For some students, choosing and getting accepted to their college of choice is easy. Some may go to the school their parents went to. Some may choose a school because they grew up cheering for its athletic teams.
When adolescent girls are socially aggressive, they may use gossip, rumor spreading, peer manipulation, and eye rolling as a means of damaging another girl’s self-esteem and/or her relationship with others. Being victimized is associated with a number of outcomes such as depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
As you are well aware, the expectations and goals set for your students’ success on standardized tests have increased greatly over the years. With the implementation of No Child Left Behind, you are under increasing accountability pressure to meet these new standardized test goals.
Event date: November 9, 2009
Middle school students can present a challenge in terms of attention and behavior. Teachers often struggle to keep students in line and on task. In order for teachers to have control of their classroom, they must understand what issues their students face at this time in their lives and use techniques to get them involved in classroom learning and activities.
Teaching is a two-way process. No matter how great a teacher you are, it doesn’t matter unless your students are actually showing up for class and being engaged in the material. You can’t help a student who’s not there. Therefore, one of the biggest challenges facing teachers is getting students motivated about school. Motivated students show up for school consistently and don’t have as high of a risk of dropping out all together.
H1N1 virus, Gulf Coast hurricanes, earthquakes, winter blizzards, West Coast fires, tsunamis, and SARs are just some of the unpredictable events that have disrupted learning around the nation. No one knows when a natural disaster or a disease outbreak will happen. The only thing we can do is to prepare for the worst and help our students learn with the best options we can find.
You know special education is an issue for every teacher. Your regular ed teachers are part of the team, too, and it’s impossible to comply with the law if they’re not performing their roles effectively. Do they know all they should? Do they have a solid grounding in the principles, practices and laws relating to special ed students? Are they able to act in the best interests of students, families, your school and your school district?
Do your students ever read a few pages of their textbooks and forget what they read immediately? Do you notice that they can go to the movies and easily recall everything they saw? If so, this seminar will give you the winning study and recall strategies that come from knowing how to learn, which gives your students the quick learning advantage they need, and the same one you need to have a classroom full of high achievers.
Social networking sites are now mainstream for students and many educators are not willing to make the adjustments to connect with students at the digital level. Do not fight the new world of social networking, but use it as an opportunity to reach out and connect with current and future students. Inside the School’s seminar will show you ways to use the many new and exciting educational technologies.
The quality of schools as a workplace, the individual job satisfaction and the personal health of every staff member are central to the success of schools and students. However, the experience adults are having at school is mostly overlooked and marginalized. Inside the School’s seminar, Ways to Improve Staff Culture to Benefit Teaching and Learning puts the focus on educators and administrators and discusses strategies to increase teacher satisfaction.
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