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!
- 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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“This course has been wonderful and very insightful. I believe all teachers should be required to watch the videos. It really helps all teachers to strive and do their best.” Kim Hawkinson, Long Prairie, MN
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“I found this course very informative and motivating! The information presented in the DVD’s was practical and interesting. I will be able to use the information in my personal and professional life. This course is probably one of the most useful courses I have taken since graduating with my Master’s degree. The information is presented in a manner that is inspiring, easy to understand, and ‘user’ friendly! In summary, the information presented in this course is timeless. Thank you for making these courses available.” Susan Aurand, Rapid City, SD
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“The graduate course, ‘Teacher Toolbox 101′ was excellent. It gave me great ideas, concepts, and strategies to bring into my classroom. The information presented can be easily applied to my classroom setting.” Tim Ebers, Omaha, NE
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“I felt that ‘Teacher Toolbox 101′ was an outstanding class. Each video and reading assignment provides relevance to my teaching assignment and my coaching responsibilies. I really like the fact that this class allows me to do the classwork on my own time. I also like the fact that I can take the class at home, without having to drive to class. I look forward to using the information that I have learned in my teaching and coaching assignments.” Bruce Shively, Norfolk, NE
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“The course was excellent! It is nice to take a course that is applicable to what you use immediately in the classroom. It isn’t like most graduate level courses in the way that there are no ‘hoops’ to jump through. This class will help remind me what is important as an educator!” Tom Leininger, Ogallala, NE
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“This was a very productive course. The objectives and assignments were very clear and the coursework was applicable. Teacher Toolbox 101 was exactly what I was looking for from a graduate course.” Brad Czech, Little Falls, MN
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“This course will benefit me in the leadership position that I am in because of the practical and usable information it has given me. The strategies presented are easily implementable without consuming large portiosn of class time. I liked the wide variety of topics, from inspiring students to deescalating conflicts and working with parents. The concepts discussed will be applicable in my daily teaching. I feel refreshed and ‘pumped up’ heading into a new school year.” Julie Milks, Omaha, NE
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“This class was filled with so many strategies that will be very useful in my classroom environment. The best part about this class is that it reacquainted me with strategies that I once used and for some reason quit using them. It also offered a new twist on some of the strategies that I already use and offered new strategies that I hadn’t been familiar with. The course work required for this class was in line with the credits offered. The videos and book were filled with so much information that is easily applicable in the classroom setting. I would definitely recommend this class to my peers.” Lisa Arnoldi, Springfield, MN
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“I found the course to be extremely helpful and hopefully beneficial to my future teaching years. In comparison to other graduate courses I have taken, I found this course to be more useful in a concrete manner than other courses. I can actually visualize implementing many of the ideas set forth from this course. It has given me countless techniques and ideas to become a more positive teacher. The course illustrates the importance of encouragement, showing gratitude and making clear, high expectations of the students in our classes. Also, the course offered numerous ideas in dealing with conflicts with parents and students. I appreciate all of these great ideas, and I intend to implement them in my teaching.” Kathleen Lally, Steubenville, OH
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“Teacher Toolbox 101 was a very helpful class to rejuvenate me on the basic tools of teaching. It gave me many strategies to help minimize disruptive behavior, maximize learning, and gave me ideas to help provide a safe but enthusiastic learning environment. This was the fifth class I have taken through Educational Resrouces, and I have been satisfied with all of the classes I have taken!” Robert Cast, Manning, IA