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.
BAGT –
I really enjoyed all of the courses! They will help me a lot in my future teaching and I can not wait to use what I have learned. I liked that I could do the courses at my own pace and there was not a lot of busy work that will not benefit my future. Peyton B., WI.
BAGT –
I really enjoyed taking this course. It was honestly a breath of fresh air as a teacher. It brought me back to why I am doing this, and what I need to work on so I can be my best self. I liked that the course was easy to follow, and that it was very relatable to what I was doing in the classroom. It gave me a lot of ideas to apply with my own students. I also appreciate that it wasn’t so overwhelming like other graduate classes I have taken. I want to continue learning and growing as a teacher, but it’s hard when classes I have taken make me feel like I am more overwhelmed than learning. Lindsay C., NE
BAGT –
I really liked the new format for this course. The up to date videos and assignments were engaging and thought provoking and full of ideas to use with both new and experienced teachers. Christine T., MI.
BAGT –
I really enjoyed the videos. I found they were relevant and applicable to me as an educator. I liked having the choice of articles to review and summarize. I am able to use strategies I have learned immediately in my classroom. Beth B., IA.
BAGT –
I feel like the underlying theme of this whole course was how to be a good communicator (LISTEN) and how important joy and movement are in the classroom. I couldn’t agree more. Although I am not a teacher, as a school-based Speech-Language Pathologist these things really resonate with me not only for my students but my relationships with my colleagues and friends/family as well. Jessica F., KY.
BAGT –
This was an excellent class. It gave me wonderful ideas to better engage my students, help them retain information, and enjoy being in my classroom! I also loved that the class provided me with ways to stay fresh both personally and professionally. I gained so much from this class that I can use immediately to improve in both areas! Jill M., MN
BAGT –
There were a variety of topics and areas that were covered. Topics are relatable. They ask for your opinions. Some college classes could care less what you think. I like that I can go back and watch a speaker again in case I missed something or interrupted it.
I look forward to using a few new ideas. Thank you again.
BAGT –
I thought the speakers were great, and had many interesting concepts to add to the classroom. There was nothing that I really did not like. There were many practical ideas shared that will add to the classroom environment. William D., OH.
BAGT –
This was my favorite course I have taken so far! Kaitlyn M., MN.