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
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:
Understand the strengths-based approach to professional development
Recognize individual patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior in the classroom
Employ strengths-based strategies in the classroom and with colleagues
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:
Understand the purpose and rationale of adopting a strengths-based approach to teaching
Learn proven strategies for identifying unique patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior in their students
Employ strengths-based teaching methods to increase student engagement, productivity, and affective learning
Use techniques to help students build on their natural talents and manage around their weaknesses
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:
Understand current research in instructional communication and nonverbal teaching behaviors
Identify teacher behaviors that establish nonverbal immediacy in the classroom
Use strategies for decoding student nonverbal messages in the classroom
Understand cultural differences and traditions with respect to nonverbal communication
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:
Understand the proven benefits of adopting a strengths-based approach to education and professional development
Equip individual teachers and staff to identify and cultivate their natural talents in the workplace
Train teams and staff to leverage and apply their individual and collective strengths to improve collaboration and meet performance and evaluation goals
Use a strengths-based approach to new employee training and on-boarding.
Employ a strengths-based approach to teacher observations and evaluations