The Teachers, Take Charge! Workshop
Minimizing Stress to Maximize Learning.
Stressed students cannot learn. The problem is that children of all ages are under immense pressure to perform well academically, socially and athletically and feeling stressed has become a way of life for students. It is now a recognized fact that stress in children is an extremely dangerous, underestimated condition that has reached epidemic proportions. 95% of all learning, behavior and mood symptoms in children are triggered by stress.
Yet instead of addressing this, many doctors parents and educators seem to take it for granted that children will just find a way to cope with their stress. Too many children don’t know how to do this so the stress build up. Ongoing stress throws the child’s biochemistry off balance and causes a hurting body, a hurting brain and a hurting spirit. This is when learning stops and negative behavior takes over.
Every day, in every classroom around the nation, educators see the symptoms of stress such as inability to focus and attend, underachievement, disengagement, low motivation, and anxiety; all kinds of behavior problems, meltdowns, bullying, anger and depression. This is the result of continuous stress that compromises the child’s ability to learn easily, behave positively and feel good about themselves and others
The stress and pressure students have to deal with is not going away. This is why it is vitally important that teachers have the tools and skills to minimize the stress that students feel and maximize their ability to learn.
Teachers Take Charge™
Minimizing Stress to Maximize Learning.
This is an amazing interactive workshop based on the latest research in educational neuroscience. The Teachers’ Take Charge! Workshop equips teachers with fascinating cutting edge information on how to enhance learning by reducing stress. Teachers also learn powerful and practical, classroom tools that can be easily integrated into their normal daily schedule and lesson plans.
This exciting, challenging 3-hour workshop is facilitated by Dr. Sandy Gluckman in her highly engaging and unforgettable style. The workshop includes a workbook that is filled with information, teaching skills, assessments and exercises.
In this compelling workshop you will learn a whole new way of understanding and reducing stress. You will also learn and practice learning enhancement tools that are easily incorporated into your existing lesson plans.
Some of the fascinating topics covered:
. What amazing new research reveals about stress and the brain.
. Recognizing stress signals in students and what to do about it.
. Classroom exercises to reduce stress chemicals and produce learning chemicals.
. The 7 keys to building stress-free, joyful relationships with your students.
. 4-minute tools for creating a stress-less classroom environment.
. How Whole Brain Teaching reduces stress and enhances learning in all students.
. Strengthening left brain-right brain integration in yourself and the students.
. Lesson plans that use both the left and right brain.
. How to switch students from being de-motivated underachievers to being inspired learners.
. The Teachers, Take Charge! system for unlocking the blocked intellectual potential of students.
. Teaching tools that strengthen body, brain and spirit in every lesson.
. How to reduce your own stress and burnout as a teacher.
. Managing stressed parents and working as a team.
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Teachers, Take Charge!
The 21st Century Whole Brain Educator Workshop
The latest research in educational neuroscience shows that humans can produce brand new brain cells. This discovery that the brain is in fact more malleable than previously thought has overturned over 100 years of scientific dogma. It has also forced us to modify our outdated paradigm of how our brain works and what this means to teachers and students.
Incredible new discoveries such as neuroplasticity and neurogenesis means that the way teachers teach will have one of three possible effects – it can actually reduce the brain power students have, use only a limited amount of the student’s brain or increase the brain’s functional ability by assisting the brain to make more connections and new neurons.
The 21st Century Whole Brain Educator Workshop empowers teachers with information and tools for doing two things:
- Integrating both sides of the brain –teaching with the whole brain
- Enhancing the brain’s ability – enhancing connections and increasing neurons.
Segment 1
A Whole New Way with a Whole New Brain
This is an educational session filled with the newest research and information on how the brain functions.
- How does the brain work?
- What does this mean to me as the teacher?
- What does the latest research reveal about the brain and learning and teaching?
- What makes some children learn differently to others?
- How does a student’s real potential become blocked? Unblocked?
- How does brain function affect motivation?
- How the brain and body function in harmony.
- The role of stress on brain function.
Segment 2
Your Whole Brain Tool Box
This is an interactive session in which participants will learn and practice whole brain classroom tools. Participants describe this section is being great fun and very practical.
- Discovering how my own brain likes to function.
- Understanding your personal brain profile and how it influences your teaching style.
- Tools to recognize different brain preferences and learning styles in the students.
- Understanding the brain function of students with learning and behavior challenges.
- Practical, easy-to-use whole brain classroom tools that can be integrated into the normal daily schedule.
- Examples of whole brain lesson plans..
- Practicing stress-relieving tools that can easily be incorporated into each day.
