From these seminars, teachers will learn superior classroom management skills. They will learn strategies designed to reduce classroom disruption and maintain an order, once set in place, will be carry through the school year. They will take from the seminar effective techniques for dealing with classroom disruptions and basic, daily management issues.
Teachers will learn to design homework practices and policies that benefit teachers, students, and ability to clearly assess student achievement and effort. Teachers rid themselves of the stress associated with homework, while boosting students’ homework completion rate with provocative and practical lessons that pose and respond to tough questions about this daily concern.
Teachers will learn strategies and techniques to challenge and motivate struggling students. The lectures contain a gold mine of proven, practical ways to help students labeled "special education," "slow," "remedial," or "LD" succeed in school—without remediation, watering down content, lowering expectations, or depriving other students of the time and attention they need.
Sections of this Program is designed to help educators learn effective techniques to adapt regular classroom curriculum and activities to meet the learning needs of academically gifted students. The seminar provides a thorough discussion of the characteristics describing gifted students, as well as the teacher’s task in developing strategies that successfully challenge all students at levels appropriate to them. The Program also includes strategies for compacting the regular curriculum and standards, and providing consistent opportunities for gifted students to be engaged in appropriately differentiated learning experiences. Lectures are designed to help educators become knowledgeable about the techniques that may be used to adapt the regular classroom curriculum and activities to meet the learning needs of their most academically capable students.
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