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Lost instructional time
Low-level discipline takes instruction time every day. A teacher can know the content well, and without classroom control the lesson still does not get delivered.
Program one
A complete classroom management system in one training day
Teachers learn and practice each strategy during the day, so the system is ready for their very next class.
Why this training
Every campus is fighting the same four problems
If your building feels any of these, this training was built for it.
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Discipline incidents
Achievement goes up after discipline is handled. The training gives teachers a system to improve behavior, and they use it immediately.
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Job satisfaction
The strategies reduce or eliminate 70 to 90% of low-level, chronic behaviors. Teachers feel less stress and more effective.
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Retention
Classroom management, or the lack of it, is the number one reason educators leave the profession. It is a teachable skill.
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
The day begins with the teacher. Staying calm under pressure, reading the classroom, and holding the teaching power position let teachers prevent most disruptions instead of reacting to them.
Component Two
Teaching rules and procedures
Routines are taught like academics. This component gives teachers a lesson-plan format for expectations and a plan for the first week of school.
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
Where students sit and where the teacher stands both shape behavior. This component turns that into fifteen practical desk arrangements.
Component Five
Student-teacher relationships
The hardest students are usually the ones who most need a connection. This component shows teachers how to build it and how to bring non-compliant students into the work of the class.
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.
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