A critical skill often overlooked in teacher training programs is that of communicating effectively with parents about their children’s needs and progress. All too often, conferences fall short of parent and teacher expectations. Includes handbook. An excellent resource for teachers and parents as they hold conferences which provide the most meaningful information about their students.
This interactive PowerPoint workshop will provide specific techniques to optimize knowledge gained during a parent-teacher conference. K-6 teachers will practice these valuable techniques which directly affect student performance in the classroom. The workshop will focus on the following:
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Obtaining information which will positively impact the child’s performance
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Developing a true partnership with parents
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Understanding the important elements in a conference
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Knowing how to handle difficult conferences
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Combining teacher perceptions and parent observations into a workable plan of action for the child
Audience: Grade K - 12 teachers, administrators
Recommendation: maximum 35 participants
Time frame: 2 hours
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Classroom Management for Paraprofessionals
"Good workshop. Good handouts. Completely involved."
"Very helpful. Great information. Well presented."
One of the greatest challenges is getting and keeping students on task. Filled with strategies and techniques for a positive approach to behavior management, this interactive workshop will focus on the following:
- Maintaining positive interactions with students
- Motivating students to take responsibility for their success
- Developing appropriate disciplinary interventions
- Responding non-coercively
- Avoiding traps
Audience: teacher aides and teaching assistants
Recommendation: maximum 35 participants
Time frame: 2 hours
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"This class was wonderful. Great memory exercises. Good ideas to work with kids."
"Enjoyable, energetic, definitely engaging."
“Learning requires memory and memory can be learned” is the focus of this workshop. This interactive Power Point workshop provides specific strategies to increase elementary students’ understanding and retention in each subject area. The specific strategies presented in this workshop are guaranteed to change educators’ approaches to teaching. Participants will practice these strategies and be able to immediately implement them in their classrooms. The workshop will focus on the following:
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Acquiring and maintaining student attention
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Developing sense and meaning for students
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Boosting students’ intrinsic motivation
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Increasing students’ memory and recall
Audience: Grade K - 12 teachers, administrators
Recommendation: maximum 35 participants
Time frame: 2 hours
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Survival Skills for Today’s Teachers
The basics of learning include planning, expectations, and assessment. This interactive PowerPoint presentation will provide strategies to promote student learning. Teachers will practice strategies so that they can implement them immediately in their classrooms. The workshop will focus on the following:
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Establishing a productive and cooperative work environment
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Designing lessons which guarantee student learning
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Setting positive expectations
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Assessing student learning
Audience: Grade K - 12 teachers, administrators
Recommendation: maximum 35 participants
Time frame: 2 hours
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Customer Service for Custodians
School custodians face great challenges since they are the caretakers for an entire school community. This interactive PowerPoint workshop focuses on strategies and techniques for a positive approach to managing the many responsibilities and tasks that every school custodian faces each day in the role of being the school’s caretaker. This workshop will focus on the following:
- Fostering positive working relationships
- Providing excellent customer services
- Balancing many responsibilities
- Being a positive part of the school team
Audience: School custodians
Recommendation: maximum 35 participants
Time frame: 2 and 1/2 hours
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School Bus Behavior Management Toolbox
"This is the first time as a driver that I have ever gotten this kind of information - she was excellent!"
"I learned to try to stay positive and to realize how important my job is."
One of the greatest challenges for school bus drivers and bus paraprofessionals is getting students to assume responsibility for themselves, including their behavior. This interactive workshop gives participants an opportunity to focus on their individual bus problems and provides them with solutions to those problems. Participants will leave this workshop with specific strategies to make students accountable for their bus behavior. The workshop will focus on:
- Motivating students to take responsibility for their behavior
- Maintaining positive interactions with students
- Setting the expectations for riding safely
- Responding non-coercively to students
Audience: Bus drivers, bus paraprofessionals
Recommendation: maximum 35 participants
Time frame: 2 hours
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Strategies for GED Instructors
This interactive workshop will provide learning strategies to apply in your GED instruction in all subject areas. These will assist you in preparing your students for the GED test. Many of these can be applied by your students to assist them in mastering the content covered in the exam.
We prefer sessions be limited to 25 participants to allow maximum hands-on experience.
Audience: K-12 teachers - all subjects
Recommendation: maximum 25 participants
Time frame: 2 hours
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"Very knowledgeable presenters!" "Thanks for all the new ideas."
"Group participation was excellent. Different stories were analyzed."
Educators know that literacy is an important goal for all students. This fast-paced presentation provides strategies to increase comprehension skills. Teachers will practice the strategies they will use with students. This Power Point workshop will focus on the following:
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Formulating questions which optimize interpretive thinking skills
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Increasing student ability to analyze written information
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Using specific data from the text to support a position on a topic
Audience: Grade K - 12 teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators
Recommendation: maximum 35 participants
Time frame: 2 hours
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Customer Service for Bus Drivers: A Backpack of Strategies
School bus drivers have an enormous amount of responsibility as they transport the district’s most precious cargo. Balancing all of the responsibilities and providing excellent customer service will be the focus of this interactive workshop. Topics will include:
- Identifying the customers
- Providing excellent customer service
- Balancing the many responsibilities of the position
- Using specific strategies to work with many different customers
- Being a very positive member of the district’s team
Audience: School Bus Drivers
Recommendation: 30-35 participants
Time frame: 2 hours
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Supporting Student Learning: A Backpack of Strategies
This workshop will help paraeducators maximize their effectiveness as they work with students individually and in small groups. The focus of this interactive workshop will be on practical techniques and strategies to use with special needs students. Participants will practice these strategies and will be able to implement them immediately with their students. Topics will include:
- Getting and keeping students on task
- Promoting responsibility and independence for student success
- Using specific motivating techniques in all subject areas
- Maintaining positive interactions with students
Audience: K-12 paraeduactors
Recommendation: 30-35 participants
Time frame: 3 hours
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Strategies to Increase Literacy Across the Curriculum
This interactive workshop will provide strategies to assist paraeducators in supporting students individually and in small groups.
The focus will be on literacy, however specific techniques will be introduced that can be utilized in other subject areas.
The workshop will focus on:
- Making predictions and hypotheses
- Using prior knowledge to increase comprehension
- Employing “fix-up” strategies
- Modifying and evaluating hypotheses based on new information
- Using the direct-teaching vocabulary technique
Audience: Paraeducators K-12
Class size: 30-35 participants
Time frame: 3 hours
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Strategies for Right Now! Supporting Students in Math and English Language Arts
This interactive workshop is designed to help paraeducators maximize their effectiveness working with special needs students in small groups and individually. Paraeducators will learn and practice instructional techniques to accelerate student acquisition of language and math skills. Participants will practice strategies and be able to implement them immediately with their students.
Topics will include:
- Specific motivating techniques for math, speaking, listening and writing
- Strategies for quick and meaningful assessment of student retention
- Methods for designing questions which develop interpretive thinking skills
- Strategies for increasing students’ ability to analyze written information
- Strategies for increasing students’ problem solving skills
Audience: K-12 Paraeducators
Recommendation: Maximum 30 participants
Time Frame: 3 hours
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