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Teaching Tough Kids in Turbulent Times: Learning in Inspire and Motivate At-Risk Students In-Service Training Three Graduate Semester Credit Courses!!! This dynamic action-packed three credit course provides the most needed strategies for dealing with today's students. Whether they are gifted or at- risk, kids today are more demanding and teachers need more and better skills to deal with them. This week you'll learn the most current and a best classroom management strategies to help you become the first class educator you were meant to be. You'll find the newest strategies for dealing with anger management, up to date techniques for modifying behavior and motivating even the most reluctant student. We'll examine and practice several aspects of experiential learning on our adventure day and you'll find out how to effectively manage kids on field trips and in other alternative settings, including extended class or block schedules. You discover the secrets of making inclusion work and tips for effective communication with other staff members. And we'll discover the secrets of effectively using the internet in our classrooms and how to make our own web pages. You'll benefit from this seminar if you are a classroom teacher, administrator, counselor, social worker, juvenile detention authority, or if you are planning on entering the teaching profession. Detailed Course Outline Some school districts or school boards require a more detailed course outline to determine whether or not they would accept the credits offered in this course for advancement on a salary schedule or in fulfillment of professional growth credits. Keep scrolling down and you will find a detailed course outline, suitable for presentation to your local university and or school district in order to obtain approval for credit. Gail's summer trainings have been approved by St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, San Jose State University, San Jose, California; University of San Diego, San Diego, California; SUNY, New York; and many others. Provide a positive, worthwhile experience for educators in your area. Bring Gail to your area for a summer training. Contact Gail to find out how. Teaching Tough Kids in Turbulent Times: Learning in Inspire and Motivate At-Risk Students FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT NEED A MORE DETAILED COURSE AGENDA, PLEASE SEE BELOW: Course Description The focus of Teaching Tough Kids in Turbulent Times: Learning in Inspire and Motivate At-Risk Students is to address the most current and pressing issues in education facing teachers today including: 1) increasing student achievement and motivation, 2) dealing with stresses and stressors, 3) classroom management strategies, especially for at-risk and difficult students 4) inculcating technology in classroom management and instruction, and 5) the importance of experiential education in the learning process. The approach will use a five-component foundational model of building resilience. There will be an emphasis on practical strategies teachers and future teachers can take to their classrooms. The skills of group processing and facilitation as effective teaching strategies will be modeled and practiced. Course Objectives The student will be able to: 1) Manage their classrooms more effectively by learning effective student management techniques, including time management, goal setting, developing student behavior contracts, effective parent communication, and alternative program models that work. 2) Deal with stresses and stressors more effectively by learning disaster management planning, violence prevention techniques, grief counseling techniques, teacher anger management skills, management of student procrastination, and inclusion strategies for a successful classroom. 3) Develop team building skills and techniques that can be directly applied to the classroom. 4) Increase student achievement and motivation by strengthening reading skills, integrating literature across the curriculum, developing student concentration skills, and utilizing strategies and techniques for motivating at-risk students. 5) Effectively integrate technology into their classrooms and prepare their students for a global economy by learning to create web pages and learning how to utilize the internet, including for parent communication. Texts, Readings and Instructional Resources Required Text/Handouts: Provided by instructor and included in the cost of class. Cost of Text/Handouts: Included Where can text/handouts be obtained? Provided by instructor first day of class. Supplemental Reading: Armstrong, Thomas. Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, Alexandria, Virginia: ASCD, 1994. Delunas, Eve, PhD. Survival Games Personalities Play, Carmel, California: SunInk Publishing, 1992. Divinyi, Joyce. Successful Strategies for Working or Living with Difficult Kids, Peachtree City, Georgia: The Wellness Connection, 1997. Dusa, Gail. Teaching Tough Kids in Turbulent Times: Learning in Inspire and Motivate At-Risk Students : Practical Classroom Strategies for Meeting the Challenges of Today's Classroom, Gunnison, Colorado: self-published, 2000. Dusa, Gail. Strengthening the Achievement, Motivation and Responsibility of At-Risk Students (grades 6-12., 3rd ed. Bellevue, Washington: Bureau of Education and Research, 1995. Dusa, Gail. Practical Strategies for Achieving Success with Difficult and At-Risk Students (grades 6-12), 3rd ed. Bellview, Washington:Bureau of Education and Research,1999. Dusa, Gail. Teacher's A+ Plan Book for Success, Gunnison, Colorado: self-published, 2000. Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence, New York: Bantam Books, 1995. Gregory, Anthony. An Adult's Guide to Style, Gregory Associates, Connecticut, 1982. Gorodinski, Alexander. A Look at the Lyceum, Jelgavas, Lativa: Dusa Communications International, 1994. Kiersey, David. Please Understand Me II- Temperament, Character, Intelligence, Del Mar, California: Prometheus Nemesis Book Company, 1998. Kohn, Alfie. Beyond Discipline, Alexandria, Virginia: ASCD, 1996. Assignments, Evaluation Procedures, and Grading Policy Course Requirements: The following group activities and individual summaries will include a variety of presentation methods, including a personal identity collage, developing a lifetime goals list, a personal strengths assessment, an experiential education essay, and pro-active discipline themes. Group Activities (40%): Create, as a group project, a web search lesson plan and demonstrate it to the class. Design a web page, using a template and post it to the net. Explain from personal experience, five ways to integrate experiential teaching and learning strategies into traditional classroom instruction for a specific grade level or subject area., classroom management disaster plan. Individual Summaries (50%): Restructure a given lesson plan for optimal learning in a group of 40 + students, 30 students, 20 students and 12 of fewer students, demonstrating at least three group processes and methods of facilitation. The instructor will also be able to modify the lesson for 1:1 interaction or independent study. Explain five specific strategies that motivate those children most often classified as at-risk and tell how they can integrate these strategies into their current teaching methodology on a consistent basis. Identify the potential warning signs of violence and be able to suggest appropriate legal obligations and moral next-steps. Will practice a minimum of three anger management techniques for demonstration and implementation with their students. Write a personal, classroom management disaster plan in preparation for natural disaster and dangerous, aggressive confrontations, including possible bombs and other threats or attacks in which weapons are used. List five organizational strategies that will create more time for academic instruction. Choose two methods of parent communication or community involvement to implement in their future teaching. Attendance (10%): Students are expected to attend all class sessions and participate in all activities. Grade distribution is as follows: 94 - 100% A 84 - 93% B 74 - 83% C 64 - 73% D 63% and below F Grading: A-F _x__ Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory ___Non-credit ___ Class Schedule Readings throughout the week will be from the handouts provided by instructor and supplemental reading list. DAILY AGENDA Day One Classroom Management Strategies Most effective student management techniques Fabulous time savers for more effective teaching Goal setting and time management Developing student behavior contracts Alternative program models - what works Effectively involving community and parents Easy ways to track progress via portfolios and other assessment tools Effective parent communication and productive conferencing tools Day Two Dealing with Stresses and Stressors Disaster management planning Violence prevention techniques Warning signs predicting violence and aggression Grief counseling techniques for the classroom teacher Teacher anger management skills Managing student procrastination Inclusion strategies for a successful classroom Day Three Adventure Day Our traditional "adventure day" consists of taking our strategies and techniques into the field. A full day, low impact, adventure will be planned to allow you to enjoy the natural beauty of the area. You will learn team building skills and techniques that will be directly applicable to your classroom situation. This day is a highlight of the workshop, and will allow you to successfully integrate what you've learned. Day Four Increasing Student Achievement and Motivation Integrating children's literature across the curriculum Strengthening reading skills Developing student concentration skills Daily tools for monitoring student achievement Addressing teacher needs for working with smaller class sizes Best strategies and techniques for motivating the at-risk student Day Five Technology Learn to create web pages Best internet sites for curriculum assistance Preparing students for a global economy Internet projects to enhance instruction Homework hotlines---how to benefit Using the internet for parent communication Closing the technology gap Life guarding skills for web surfer's parents |
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