Teacher Workshops

Assisting Educators to Raise Caring, Competent, and Responsible Children and Adolescents

Seminars for Educators include:

Keynote addresses, Conference workshops, Teacher in-service programs, Faculty meetings, and Retreat development. We offer Teleseminars for teachers during the summer months (watch our newsletter for announcements).

Topics for Teacher Seminars include:
Just click on the title for a complete description.

Ten Keys That Contribute to New Teacher Success

Conscious and Effective Classroom Management

Instilling an Attitude of Success in Your Students

Talking with Your Students about Responsible Sexuality

Teenagers and Sex: A Youth Minister's Guide to Talking to Youth about Responsible Sexuality

Ten Keys That Contribute to New Teacher Success

Do you want to teach with self-assurance and credibility while increasing your authority in the classroom? Gain knowledge of the Ten Keys that are practiced every day by the most talented educators in our country. Practical hands-on approaches will be discussed for motivating learners and holding them accountable. Maintain a positive, fresh approach to teaching by discovering how to build a learning environment that supports student achievement and invites student cooperation.

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Conscious and Effective Classroom Management

Do you find yourself wasting time on discipline issues for lack of cooperation? Are you frustrated when one negative student changes the whole dynamics of the classroom? Do you want to enjoy your teaching more? Renew your energy and commitment to the classroom by increasing your knowledge of what works with today's youth. Develop new skills to nurture a positive rapport with students while establishing and enforcing clear boundaries and expectations for student behavior. Learn creative tips and strategies to motivate students. See first-hand demonstrations of proven approaches to classroom management.

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Instilling an Attitude of Success in Your Students

Good teachers are the ones who encourage, inspire, lead, and motivate students to learn. As a result of groundbreaking research this seminar gives you the know-how to teach youth to make choices that will lead to their personal success. Learn how to influence students to make good decisions, choose constructive life paths, and grow up as competent, reliable and caring young adults. Using eight essential building blocks, you will learn to identify and nurture strengths in your students, examine methods and techniques to increase student accountability, and initiate positive behavioral changes in learners.

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Talking with Your Students about Responsible Sexuality

We need to teach our youth how to stay conscious and connected as we prepare them to meet the challenges they will face as they begin developing intimate relationships. This workshop examines the issues of a teen's promising sexuality. This is contrasted with the confusing and conflicting cultural messages that negatively influence them. We will look carefully at specific ways to initiate healthy discussions and how to creatively educate students - lecture free - about the damaging physical, emotional, and spiritual consequences of engaging in early premarital sex. Seven instructive blueprints will be given to help establish essential personal boundaries, rules, and guidelines that will help keep them safe.

"Mary Ann and I want to thank you again for your outstanding presentation, "Teaching Your Kids About Responsible Sexuality," at the Palo Alto Middle school. You had so many suggestions for getting the dialogue going, and for getting it going early and often! Your backgrounds as educators and therapist, husband, wife, and parents of teens provide great credibility to a difficult and delicate subject. Your team approach was very complimentary to your styles and viewpoints." - Jane Moss, Palo Alto, CA

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Teenagers and Sex: A Youth Minister's Guide to Talking to Youth about Responsible Sexuality

Youth Ministers and Catechists usually want to address issues of sexuality with their youth group members, but in some cases do not know how to begin. In this workshop you will learn how to initiate appropriate discussions with teens using messages received about sexuality from the culture and the media. Creative ideas in educating youth about the damaging physical, emotional and spiritual consequences of engaging in premarital sex will be presented. Also recommended for teachers and parents.

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