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Time
Low-level discipline problems are where instruction time goes.
Program one
Classroom management, taught on your campus
Your staff spends one day learning a complete management system, then uses it starting with the next class period.
Why this training
Four reasons to start with classroom management
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Achievement
Discipline comes first. Without control, even the best lessons stay undelivered.
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Stress
These strategies reduce or eliminate 70 to 90% of chronic, low-level behaviors.
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Turnover
Classroom management is the number one reason educators leave the profession, and the fix can be taught.
Research
"Teachers' actions in their classrooms have twice the impact on student achievement as school policies regarding curriculum, assessment, staff collegiality, and community involvement."
Marzano, R. J. (2003). What Works in Schools. ASCD.
The five components
How the system fits together
The five components below are taught in order, modeled by your trainer, and practiced by every teacher.
1. Self-Control
2. Rules & Procedures
3. Responding to Challenges
4. Ecology & Arrangement
5. Relationships
Component One
Self-control strategies
Teachers practice the diffuser system and the teaching power position. Both are about prevention, which can head off up to 90% of low-level problems before instruction stops.
Component Two
Teaching rules and procedures
Teachers set up the first week of school for the whole year. Expectations get a lesson plan, modeling, and repeated practice, and office referrals go down.
Component Three
Responding to challenges
Teachers learn to ask once, defuse a challenge in five seconds or less, and follow through, with no second or third warning.
Component Four
Classroom ecology and arrangement
Teachers learn to arrange the classroom for the lesson at hand. The training covers fifteen layouts, traditional and unorthodox, and teacher positioning.
Component Five
Student-teacher relationships
Teachers learn to reach the students who test every limit. Trust comes first, and students who trust their teacher become contributors instead of distractions.
Agenda
The agenda
This is the full-day version. The training can also run as a half-day, on site, on dates you choose.
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM covers how to stay calm and alert, how to arrange and design the classroom (including fifteen desk arrangements), the teaching power position, and how to teach and enforce rules and procedures.
1:00 to 3:30 PM, after a one-hour lunch, covers disciplinary actions that are firm but fair, student-teacher relationships, non-compliant students, the five immediate steps to regain control, and teaching without multiple warnings or repeated requests.
Schedule the training
Tell Michelle Becker how many teachers will attend and when.