Teaching For Excellence

Teaching For Excellence: Bring Your Best Self To School Every Day is loaded with information and ideas for bringing your “A” game to school every single day, and to stay engaged with your students, colleagues, and community.

Exceptional in both content and format, teachers at all grade levels will LOVE the gold mine of practical teaching tips this graduate level class will provide.  You will learn research-based, hands-on techniques on how to increase student productivity and achievement from experienced teachers who have had great success in the classroom.   You will be given time to reflect and evaluate how you currently lead your class and discover new ways to maintain your enthusiasm, sanity, sense of humor, and joy while working with all students.  Classic in simplicity, this unique class will provide you with a treasure chest of tools to make your job easier and your classroom a place of success and enjoyment for all!

In this course you will:

• Learn how to create a learning climate that builds community, confidence, and self-esteem in all your students.
• Discover ways to maintain your enthusiasm, sanity, sense of humor, and joy while working with all of your students.
• Reflect and evaluate how well you currently lead your class, team, or class.
• Be exposed to proven methods that will strengthen leadership and communications skills.
• Discover ways to increase student productivity, achievement and enthusiasm for learning.
• Acquire proven strategies that will create connections with students and raise achievement
• Learn how to give effective feedback.
• Examine common traits successful teachers tend to exhibit.  
• Reconnect with your purpose as an educator.
• Gain effective strategies for creating a classroom culture that promote resilience and a growth mindset.
• Develop strategies to avoid teacher burnout.
• Tap into the knowledge of some of the most respected teachers in the field and gain easy-to-apply teaching strategies.
• Rediscover the passion and excitement that made you want to become a teacher.