July 16-19 Enid One Class Cost: $300 Two Class Cost: $500 Four Day Class Cost: $500 Tuesday - Friday Methodology 2: PK-12 Tuesday - Wednesday 9 Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom : PK-12 Discipline! Mastering Best Practices: PK-12 Googly Goodness Make & Take: PK-8 Nursery Rhymes to STEM: PK-5 Thursday - Friday Academic Make and Take x 4 Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies: PK-4 Engaging the Brain for Learner Success: PK-12 Googly Goodness Make & Take: PK-8 Wiggles to Word Champs: PK-5
9 Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom : PK-12 Instructor: Ashley Watters While learning from the curriculum 9 Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom by Jim Fay and Charles Fay Ph.D. You will learn about effective classroom management techniques and how to build positive relationships with challenging students. This class will help you start the year by motivating students, reducing drama in your classroom, and helping students learn to take responsibility for solving the problems they face. Academic Make and Take x 4 Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies: PK-4 Instructor: Ashley Watters Be ready to have the time and supplies to make and take items to use in your own classroom in the areas of language arts, math, science and social studies. The supplies will be available with lots of patterns and ideas to share. These items will help you in meeting state and national standards and your own classroom objectives. Discipline! Mastering Best Practices: PK-12 Instructors: Susan Early Investigate ways to set the ideal tone in your classroom through Positive Discipline, learn how the brain influences behavior, and examine classroom management strategies. This session will also give you an expanded understanding of the Seven Keys to Discipline, teaching methods based on Kohlberg s levels of intrinsic motivation, and techniques for dealing with the hard-toreach student. We will focus on teaching from the heart and being proactive with discipline techniques that stop misbehaviors before they become a problem. Come and develop ideas to put into your class the first day of school to make sure your classroom has a WIN/WIN atmosphere! Areas of Focus: Classroom Management, Differentiated Instruction, and Critical Thinking Skills. Engaging the Brain for Learner Success: PK-12 Instructors: Susan Early Participate in the eight most important ways to transition students brains for different kinds of learning. Eric Jensen s techniques for managing students states will be explored and practiced so you will be ready to take these tools back to your classroom and implement them immediately. Manage students emotional states and thereby achieve success in meeting your teaching objectives. Areas of Focus: Classroom Management and All Subject Areas.
Googly Goodness Make & Take: PK-8 Instructors: Roy & Kim Bartnick Are you ready for a techno riffic experience using Google in your classroom? This course will enable participants to create their own Google site, use Google docs, sheets, forms, and apps! Participants will leave with a basic understanding on the creation and use of a Google site and how to implement the many Google programs and apps to complement their classroom! Methodology 1: PK-12 Instructor: Various Experienced classroom teachers share basic practices, methods, and theories of Great Expectations. Great Expectations (GE) Methodology is grounded in six basic tenets: All Children Can Learn, Building Self Esteem, Climate of Mutual Respect, High Expectations, Teacher Attitude and Responsibility, and Teacher Knowledge and Skill. In the four-day training session participants are immersed in the research-based 17 Classroom Practices to be an effective teacher. Each of the 17 practices is examined through the lens of developing a Culture of Respect and promoting Academic Excellence. Classroom management is anchored in the GE 8 Expectations. The 36 Life Principles promote students of character. Participants are provided with a GE Manual of instructional materials and a wealth of resources, research, and structures to use in his/her own learning environment. GE Methodology provides a blue print to be an exemplary educator. With full implementation of Great Expectations Methodology, academic performance and attendance go up and discipline referrals go down. Grade Level Choices: (You must choose a grade level.) Lower Elementary (PK-2) Upper Elementary (3-6) Middle School (6-8) High School (9-12) Methodology 2: PK-12 Instructor: Various This class offers a fresh look at all 17 practices and how to put the puzzle together in deeper implementation. The class will include more structures to easily implement into your instruction to improve not only your implementation of GE, but also enhance your overall instruction. Nursery Rhymes to STEM: PK-6 Instructor: Lisa Whitwell Involve students in science experiments, math discussion, art, and creative writing assignments through familiar nursery rhymes. Difficult tasks seem easy because they involve nursery rhymes. Invite students to look at these familiar sayings through a different lens.
Wiggles to Word Champs: PK-5 Instructor: Lisa Whitwell Inspect familiar and unfamiliar books with the goal of building student s vocabulary, writing skills and enjoyment of reading. Make and take cross-curricular activities to enhance students love of reading.