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Time
Low-level discipline problems are where instruction time goes.
Program one
What would ten more hours on task each week do for achievement?
One day of practical, research-based strategies that teachers start using in their next class period.
Why this training
Four reasons to start with classroom management
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Achievement
Discipline comes first. Without control, even the best lessons stay undelivered.
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Stress
These strategies reduce or eliminate 70 to 90% of chronic, low-level behaviors.
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Turnover
Classroom management is the number one reason educators leave the profession, and the fix can be taught.
Research
"Teachers' actions in their classrooms have twice the impact on student achievement as school policies regarding curriculum, assessment, staff collegiality, and community involvement."
Marzano, R. J. (2003). What Works in Schools. ASCD.
The five components
What the day covers
Five strategies make up a complete management system. Each is taught, modeled, and practiced.
1. Self-Control
2. Rules & Procedures
3. Responding to Challenges
4. Ecology & Arrangement
5. Relationships
Component One
Self-control strategies
Prevention is the strongest tool a teacher has. Teachers learn to stay calm, read the room, and spot trouble early, which heads off up to 90% of low-level problems before they interrupt instruction. The day starts here because the rest depends on it.
Component Two
Teaching rules and procedures
The first day, week, and month of school matter most for classroom management. Teachers learn to teach routines the way they teach reading or math: a lesson plan, modeling, and practice until the routine is automatic.
Component Three
Responding to challenges
Teachers learn five immediate steps for an out-of-control student and how to carry out discipline firmly but fairly. Multiple warnings and repeated requests go away.
Component Four
Classroom ecology and arrangement
Teachers learn to arrange the classroom for the lesson at hand. The training covers fifteen layouts, traditional and unorthodox, and teacher positioning.
Component Five
Student-teacher relationships
When students feel valued, they engage with the teacher and the subject. Teachers practice building that trust, class period by class period.
Agenda
How the day runs
Here is a typical full day. Half-day versions are available, and dates are set around your calendar.
In the first block, from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM, your trainer covers mindset, classroom design, the teaching power position, fifteen desk arrangements, and rules and procedures.
The second block starts at 1:00 PM, after lunch, and ends at 3:30 PM. Its topics are firm and fair discipline, relationships, non-compliant students, the five steps to regain control, and ending repeated warnings and requests.
Give every teacher the same system
Start with a quote for your school or district.