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BUILDING COMMUNICATION AND TEAMWORK IN THE CLASSROOM
(Project T.E.A.C.H.)
Course Description:
Reach a new level of
positive communication with strategies necessary to foster an emotionally
engaging classroom where students are connected to school, learning, and
one another. Specific strategies are provided in the following areas:
teacher leadership, communication and listening, positive thinking and
support, and team building.
Learn the best methods for
connecting with students
- Experience connecting
strategies that motivate and engage students.
- Develop a plan for
dealing with challenging students.
- Acquire techniques for
building relationships with students.
- Gain a repertoire of
connecting strategies to use in your classroom.
Master positive
communication skills
- Learn powerful skills
for reducing student resistances.
- Understand how to
establish a positive teacher-student relationship.
- Improve verbal and
nonverbal communication to build rapport.
Use team building to
create a learning community
- Participate in hands-on
team building activities.
- Understand how to tap
student interests to gain cooperation.
- Learn the components of
building a supportive classroom team.
Decrease disruptions by
using nonconfrontational strategies
- Learn valuable
techniques to maintain teacher momentum.
- Avert teacher-student
confrontation.
- Develop strategies such
as humor, detachment, and statements of feelings.
Create an emotionally safe
learning environment
- Identify how Emotional
Intelligence manifests itself in the classroom.
- Learn the extent of your
influence over students.
- Understand the teacher
leadership characteristics of relational classrooms.
- Teach your students
interpersonal skills valuable for success in school and life.
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