Presenter:
James D. Sutton, EdD
P.O. Box 672
Pleasanton, TX 78064
(800) 659-6628
Fax: (830) 281-2617
| More compliance, more work accomplished |
| A sense of successfully reaching more of the "total child" in each student |
| Increased enjoyment of the teaching profession |
1. Reframe negative elements that can hamper effectiveness in the classroom.
2. Understand the nature of compliance versus noncompliance.
3. Grasp three time-tested fundamentals important to effectively reaching and teaching young people.
4. Learn strategies and activities for uniquely affirming students individually and collectively.
5. Teach youngsters how to use their feelings to identify and address their needs.
6. Show students ways that they can affirm one another.
7. Pinpoint five guidelines for effectively initiating task completion and compliance.
8. Utilize many fun and challenging ways to direct youngsters to tasks---and keep them there.
9. Capitalize on non-verbal cues of redirection as a way of reducing behavioral outbursts.
10. Share five powerful principles and productive activities for introducing students to the concepts of the working world.
11. Inspire youngsters to actively work to add value to the lives of others.
Those youngsters who simply shut down are an ever-growing concern. This program will suggest creative activities for encouraging students to initiate and complete their work in ways that engage their senses of curiosity, competition, and spontaneity. Special attention will be given to productive strategies of redirection (getting a student who is off task to return to it).
This program involves lecture, with opportunity for sharing and "hands on" practice of selected activities and strategies.
| Texas Psychologist License # 2790 |
| Texas Professional Counselor License # 06979 |
| Texas Certified Advanced Addiction Counselor # 1314-0900 |
| Texas Licensed Specialist in School Psychology # 6154 |
| Texas Education Agency certifications--see vita |
| Certified Speaking Professional |