Do you have the right tools in your teacher toolbox? This unique class has it all! It is exciting, engaging and truly effective in refreshing you on the basic tools of teaching.
Learn how to create a classroom that minimizes disruptive behavior, maximizes learning, provides an emotionally safe environment for all students, all while maintaining your enthusiasm, sanity, sense of humor and joy of working with students. This class is sure to be the #1 teaching tool for your classroom!
***This course was written in 2010, it’s an oldie, but a goodie. Teachers still LOVE the content and is still applicable to today’s changing classroom***
In this course you will:
- Acquire proven strategies that will allow you to connect with your students, raise achievement, improve transitions and add fun to a lesson.
- Learn research-based, hands-on techniques from experienced teachers and educational professionals who have actually used them – with great results!
- Reassess your role as a teacher (and your students’ role as learners) to increase your effectiveness and maximize student achievement.
- Learn how to create a classroom that minimizes disruptive behavior, maximizes learning and provides an emotionally safe environment.
- Be exposed to quick and easy ways to build in breaks to energize your students, increase learning, and improve on-task behavior.
- Learn exciting ways that the Internet can be used as a powerful source for enhancing both student learning and instructional delivery.
- Learn effective strategies for working with parents to get the best results for their children.
- Learn why movement in the classroom is essential to keeping students focused, excited, enthusiastic, and ready to learn.
- Discover new and exciting ways to activate prior knowledge, grab students’ attention and build a stronger foundation for learning.
- Learn how to improve performance and test scores of your of your unmotivated or low-achieving students.
- Discover ways on how to maintain your enthusiasm, sanity, sense of humor, and joy while working with all of your students.
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“What I like best about this course is the hands-on, practical information I learned. This class is not about specific grade levels or subject. All of the information can be applied to any grade level and any subject. I think that is wonderful! It really gives me tools that I can put to use right away!”–Jordan H., NE
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“Another great Educational Resources online class. There is always useful information to use in the classroom – even after 28 years of classroom experience! Always new information, as well as refreshers of information to enhance my teaching!”–Jean L., NE
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“I like this course because I can work at my own pace. The speakers and their ideas are very easy to understand. The questions are 100% related to the class. I have learned a lot of different teaching techniques and teaching strategies from this course. I LOVE all the classes that I have taken from Be A Great Teacher!”–Tatiana W., OH
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“After taking several years off from teaching, I appreciate how well thought out this course was. It was easy to navigate, the objectives were clear and meaningful. I have been able to immediately take the lessons I learned and apply them to my classroom.”–Jennifer S., IL
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“I enjoyed the class and would recommend it to a colleague. The course provided easy-to-implement ideas that I can readily start in my class.”–Ericka T., IL
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“Thank you for another wonderful and practical course from Be A Great Teacher! Teacher Toolbox 101 encouraged teaching to the heart and mind of the child. I LOVED this aspect of the course! Other important information included routines that can be used to make connections with the students. Something I love about all of these courses is that they benefit me both a teacher and a mom.”–Tracie H., KS
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“Great class! It made me look into how I teach, how my students receive my lesson and helped me focus on how to be a better teacher!”–Jeff G., MN
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“The course was well organized and clearly outlined. I appreciated learning new strategies to help motivate students in the classroom. This course will benefit me as a more senior member of my department as I help mentor younger teachers.”–Nathan C., NE
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“I thought the course was well structured and above all, relevant. As opposed to other classes I have taken over the years, this one was not just “hoop jumping” to get a credit. These are elements I can put into practice right away. Overall, I felt this was an economical, worthwhile venture on my part, one that should be continued.”–B.J. S., IA
BAGT –
“I LOVED this course! The information presented and shared throughout the course was on point, practical and got me excited to put all of these tools into practice within my own classroom. Thank you for creating wonderful content!” –Holly C., IA