PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR EDUCATORS

• Equip your administration and staff with the knowledge and skills to implement a strengths-based approach in the classroom

• Train your teaching teams to leverage and apply their individual and collective strengths to meet performance and evaluation goals

• Increase staff productivity and engagement, and lower staff turnover

• Increase student engagement, productivity, and affective learning 

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Book one of our Professional Development Workshops below or contact us for something custom-built for your staff and students. Allow us to help you build a strengths-based school. 

TEACHING WITH YOUR STRENGTHS 

At the end of the workshop, educators will be able to:

1. Understand the strengths-based approach to professional development

2. Recognize individual patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior in the classroom

3. Employ strengths-based strategies in the classroom and with colleagues

4. Discover strengths-based strategies to increase workplace engagement and wellbeing

USING A STRENGTHS-BASED APPROACH IN THE CLASSROOM

At the end of the training, educators will be able to:

1. Understand the purpose and rationale of adopting a strengths-based approach to teaching

2. Learn proven strategies for identifying unique patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior in their students

3. Employ strengths-based teaching methods to increase student engagement, productivity, and affective learning

4. Use techniques to help students build on their natural talents and manage around their weaknesses

5. Build relationships with parents by providing strengths-based feedback

NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN THE CLASSROOM

At the end of the training, educators will be able to:

1. Understand current research in instructional communication and nonverbal teaching behaviors

2. Identify teacher behaviors that establish nonverbal immediacy in the classroom

3. Use strategies for decoding student nonverbal messages in the classroom

4. Understand cultural differences and traditions with respect to nonverbal communication

5. Employ strategies for improving nonverbal communication in the classroom in order to increase student engagement and affective learning

BUILDING A STRENGTHS-BASED SCHOOL

At the end of this training, administrators will be able to:

1. Understand the proven benefits of adopting a strengths-based approach to education and professional development

2. Equip individual teachers and staff to identify and cultivate their natural talents in the workplace

3. Train teams and staff to leverage and apply their individual and collective strengths to improve collaboration and meet performance and evaluation goals

4. Use a strengths-based approach to new employee training and on-boarding.

5. Employ a strengths-based approach to teacher observations and evaluations