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Training the Trainer

Training the Trainer: Setting People Up For Success Everyone can learn. Presenting information in a way that reaches all participants is crucial to training success. Understanding how adults learn forms the foundation for effective program development. Discover three learning style patterns that determine learning success or failure. Learn about current brain research and its implications […]

Time Management

Help! I Don’t Have Time! Since there is always more to do, if working harder, smarter and faster won’t solve the problem, what will? Learn how to determine what is truly important in your life. Discover the importance of identifying your personal vision and mission. Set your goals in keeping with your mission and vision. […]

Thinking Skills

Developing Critical Thinking Skills This workshop is designed to provide an understanding of teaching thinking skills and how to actively engage students in the learning process. Understanding how the brain learns is key to achieving thinking success. Teaching specific study skills, thinking techniques and tools empowers students to be in control of their own learning […]

Study Skills

Attend, Focus and Remember: Study Skills That Work Memory, attention and focusing skills are key to long-term learning. Learn what controls attention and how to develop students’ attention and focusing skills. Understand the importance of teaching students how to use and develop their visual memory skills. Identify three kinds of memory and how to use […]

Stress Management

The Stress Connection: Understanding How Stress Affects Learning Your students’ futures depend on their ability to grasp new concepts, to make new choices and to learn, unlearn and relearn throughout life. The age of instant communication dictates that students know and understand themselves well. Eighty percent of learning difficulties are attributed to stress. Students need […]

Reading

Reading Actively: Actively Reading This workshop is designed to provide structures to engage students actively in the reading process. Understanding how the brain learns is key to achieving reading success. Teaching specific reading skills, techniques and tools empowers students be in control of their own learning process. Teaching students how to be attuned to themselves […]

Learning Styles

Setting ADD Student Up For Success Understand ADD and ADHD students. Learn how to incorporate activities to accommodate learning style differences, short attention spans and difficulty focusing in your lesson plans. Experience movement activities to enhance focusing skills. Structure your classrooms to create an optimum learning environment for all students. Learn how to work in […]

Intelligences

Emotional Intelligence The crucial range of abilities that effect how we do in life namely, self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, zeal, self-motivation, empathy and social deftness – make up a different way of being smart. Learn how to nurture and strengthen these abilities that are defined as emotional intelligence. Discover the “window” of opportunity for developing […]

Gifted Education

Challenging Gifted Students In the Regular Classroom How do gifted students learn? Learn five premises that form the foundation of gifted students’ success in the regular classroom. Discover how to identify their children’s learning needs and to nurture motivated, excited learners. Use this information at home and at school.

Differentiated Learning

DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING Every student can learn. Differentiated instruction allows each student to learn what he/she needs to learn in the way that learning works best for each individual. It takes into account differences in learning styles, instructional strategies, and assessment opportunities. Empowering students to understand how they learn is crucial to their success as students. […]