WHAT OTHER TRAINING TOPICS DO WE COVER?

- Emotional education: An antidote to violence in the schools

- Behind the scenes: The emotional experience of teaching and learning

- The dynamics of learning in groups: From isolation to competition to cooperation

- Protecting the emotional health of the educator: Maintaining sanity in the midst of chaos.

- New educators support and training groups.

- Working with disruption, defiance and withdrawal in the classroom.

- Ghosts in the classroom: Unseen forces that effect learning and classroom interaction.

- Case consultation and support groups for teachers and support staff.

- Managing anger and aggression in the schools: Students, parents and colleagues.

WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS GEARED TO THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS, DISTRICTS AND GROUPS OF EDUCATORS CAN BE CUSTOM DESIGNED ON REQUEST.

WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF OUR TRAINING?

Our training:
- strengthens the teacher's role as classroom group leader.

- provides skills in school-based modern group process for administrators, counselors and social workers.

- improves educators' understanding of the academic, social, emotional and physical needs of each learner.

- provides educators with the skills to enable students to maximize their potential as well as learn and function cooperatively in groups.

- is research based

- enables educators to use their observations of students and data provided by student behaviors and performance to plan interventions to help students grow academically, socially and emotionally.

- is interactive and based on knowledge of how adults learn and develop, PARTICULARLY IN GROUPS.

- fosters educators' use of reflection and self-assessment in professional and intellectual growth.

- promotes ongoing and meaningful collaboration among colleagues.