This course will provide teachers at all levels practical, simple, yet vital strategies to refresh and restore a positive classroom atmosphere.
By utilizing basic tools and devices teachers will empower students to build character, set goals and achieve success with proactive and engaging lessons.
- Strengthen your teaching with ideas, strategies and tools to support your classroom in the areas of proactive classroom management and community building.
- Create a learning climate and physical environment that builds character, self-esteem and community in all your students.
- Develop techniques to provide students with a sense of purpose and direction in their lives, which increases the likelihood of success in school.
- Learn tools that help build connectedness and feelings of belonging in your classroom.
- Recapture and rediscover rewarding ways to increase your joy of teaching.
- Bring out the best in your students and in yourself.
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“I enjoyed taking the course, Powerful Teaching. It was full of valuable enrichment. Urban’s book motivated me to not only be a better teacher or leader, but also a better mother.” -Crystal D., MN
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“The time spent on this class has been time well spent. These classes always motivate me to be a better teacher.” -Michael W., MO
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“The course, Powerful Teaching, was very helpful to my professional development and would benefit any teacher whether he/she is a first year teacher or has had years of experience. I was pleased that the content allowed for instantaneous implementation of ideas as well as opportunities to make goals and plan how to implement methods to be a better teacher.” -LeAnn B., IA
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“I recently finished Powerful Teaching and absolutely loved it. I enjoyed the reading and the reflecting on my current teaching practices. I have already incorporated what I learned from taking this course into my daily routine since we recently started our 3rd trimester. This is the best course I have taken so far because every chapter I read was so in touch with what I have in my classroom each day. You can tell someone who has been in a teacher’s shoes wrote it and I appreciate that. I feel like this course benefitted me because it is so relevant to what teachers are doing every day. It drove home that some of the things I am already doing in class are great, but it also gave me some new ideas that were simple and didn’t take much time to start. I will be able to use many of the ideas in my classes and as the student council sponsor.” -Kim G., IA