The Big Motivator will teach you to honor your gifts in your work with students and yourselves! You’ll hear how to use inspirational, encouraging, and motivational exercises in the classroom. You’ll also identify your own strengths and how to use them to enhance student learning. There will be ideas shared on mental agility and time management flexibility to get the results you desire for student learning.
How can students learn to sit and stand to enhance musicianship, breathing and comfort? This hands-on body mapping workshop utilizes basic anatomy to explore the interrelationship between sitting/standing and breathing and their role in expression, performance and skill development. Participants gain an understanding of sitting/standing balance and movements of the breath as they learn to recognize balance and breathing habits in students, and acquire tools to easily integrate these concepts into teaching.
This workshop will combine lecture, video demonstration, and practice in the how’s and why’s of using independent activity schedules to increase independence in both leisure time and everyday skills for students of all ages and disabilities. This is an evidence-based well researched strategy for teaching a variety of skills and behavior chains.
Many educators are experimenting with the idea of the flipped classroom model. The flipped classroom inverts traditional teaching methods, delivering instruction online outside of class and moving “homework” into the classroom. We’ll look at the ways flipped classroom works, what it does for elementary teachers and students, and you’ll see examples of flipped classrooms. You’ll also have a chance to see how to flip a subject area of your own
Substance use by teens continues to be a major issue. While street drugs are readily available in many communities, many teen drug users easily obtain over-the-counter or prescription medications from a variety of sources, including their family’s medicine cabinet. Use of inhalants, steroids and bath salts is also presented in this in-service workshop.
You are cordially invited to join the Barrows 4th Grade Team for an “app”etizing hour of iPad sharing.
Who: Anyone who is currently using or interested in integrating iPads into their classroom.
What: Serving up a menu of useful apps that we have used in our classrooms.
What can you bring? Novices, just yourselves. Experienced users, BYOD and an “app”etizing app to share.
We promise you will have a sparkling time!
With so many students struggling with self-injurious behaviors (cutting, burning, etc.) teachers and counselors at all grade levels are in need of effective strategies to use in the classroom to support these students. The workshop will begin with clear ways to identify and understand why students engage in this behavior followed by various approaches to supporting these students. Participants will have the opportunity to practice techniques for working with students as well as communicating with parents regarding self-injurious concerns. BONUS: Participants will receive training in a variety of Yoga 4 Classrooms poses and techniques to support this work!
Bringing technology into the hands of students has many exciting implications to change the way our students learn and own their own learning. BYOD has many applications the high school chemistry classroom to support students in their learning and encourage risk taking with new and independent methods of learning. This BYOD challenge is a journey for students, teacher, and families and a study in positive change to the learning environment.
We will be discussing the value of a multi-tiered system of supports in the classroom and how teachers can implement research-based interventions and successfully collect data on student progress. Sharing successful interventions that can be implemented in the general education setting, we will examine the need for further use of the MTSS model in order to better meet the needs of students in the general education setting. Through the use of the MTSS, our schools will reduce the number of unnecessary Special Education referrals and develop a culture of collective responsibility for all of our students. Learn how to better address the academic, social, behavioral and emotional needs of a struggling student in your classroom.
Because anti-gay bullying is unique. . . because schools with strong GSA’s a safe and supportive environment for all students. . . because GSAs are not about sex but about building acceptance and community. GLBT students need unequivocal support from their school administrators, teachers, and peers. RMHS GSA leaders Kathryn Vallis and junior Sam Wagner will share what they have learned about creating GSAs at the middle school and high school levels and help you get your GSA off the ground.
