Midwest Educational Consultants
Who are Workshops for?
The sessions are for teachers at all levels.
The ENVoY workshop series is based on Michael Grinder’s best-selling books for educators. This text is widely used in the U.S., Europe, Australia, Asia and Latin America. The seminars and books are powerful whether you are teaching in K-12 or adult education.
The principles of non-verbal management can also help parents and anyone who works with children maintain positive relationships with young people while respectfully adhering to high standards for behavior.
THE WORKSHOPS
ENVoY: Your Personal Guide to Classroom Management
This training teaches a full range of non-verbal communication skills to positively influence the teacher-student relationship. These include consistent and fair classroom treatment that preserves relationships with each student, regardless of their unique learning style or cultural background.
Topics of Study are:
1. Why non-verbal messages are more effective in classroom management than verbal messages
2. Recognizing and responding to the various learning styles of students
3. Disciplining for student needs rather than for teacher needs
4. Establishing and preserving relationships of influence
1. Why non-verbal messages are more effective in classroom management than verbal messages
2. Recognizing and responding to the various learning styles of students
3. Disciplining for student needs rather than for teacher needs
4. Establishing and preserving relationships of influence
Available for practicum credit.
Cats and Dogs —Establishing and Understanding Classroom relationships
Learn to form relationships based on influence instead of power.
This course will give you a basic understanding of behavioral styles from high accommodators (i.e., dogs) to low accommodators (i.e., cats). Anyone who has ever owned a cat and a dog instinctively knows the differences between their personalities.
This program provides specific strategies for:
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• Reflecting on your own cat and dog tendencies
• Recognizing cat and dog-ness in others
• Increasing one’s flexibility to be genuine with dogs and intrigue the cats.
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• Managing classroom’s more effectively
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• Increasing one’s tolerance of the independent nature of the cat
Prerequisite and audience— While the program is open to anyone, it is intended for teachers who work with adolescents, kinesthetic-oriented students, at-risk pupils and talented/gifted learners.
Available for practicum credit.
A Healthy Classroom—Group Dynamics in the classroom
Learn the techniques and gain insight into what it takes to make a healthy classroom. This course tackles classroom group dynamic situations with insight and practical application.
A Healthy Classroom is designed to help understand the hardest management situations the teacher faces— when the teacher has to grapple with both the individual and the class at the same time.
Participants will learn how to:
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• accelerate the formation of the class as a group
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• recognize and use the leaders in the classroom
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• cope with the seasons of the school year
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• manage disruptive students
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• cultivate healthy humor
Delivering Sensitive Information - a Program for Administrators
As administrators, we have to convey factual information that is often interpreted as negative by the others. The goal of this workshop is to preserve relationships while delivering the news.
Prerequisite and audience—No previous experience is necessary.
Train the Trainer Workshop
Our train-the-trainer program functions on an accelerated-learning model. Eight to twelve ENVoY graduates are trained. They then take turns presenting skills to up to 40 participants for a two-day program. These same trainers immediately present a second two-day program to a new set of up to 40 participants.
To provide the trainers with immediate feedback the trainees are paired with each other. These presentations are video taped and DVDs are produced for the trainers so that they can further refine their skills.
Prerequisite and audience—ENVoY program graduate.
ENVoY Coaches Training
Our coaching program is five days in length during which 12 ENVoY graduates are certified. Three host schools are involved so that the trainees can visit actual classrooms and utilize their observation skills and provide teachers with non-judgmental feedback.
Our coaching program is five days in length during which 12 ENVoY graduates are certified. Three host schools are involved so that the trainees can visit actual classrooms and utilize their observation skills and provide teachers with non-judgmental feedback.
Cafeteria 101
The first thing that parents and kids notice when they walk into a school is the overall atmosphere. How common spaces run, especially cafeterias, affects the entire culture of learning.
Common spaces consulting can include a full-day workshop highlighting the how-tos and the important components of creating positive change in the common space. After the session, support is provided with implementation, on-site coaching, and follow-up reflection and refinement sessions.
Feedback strategies for Mentors
It’s not what you say it’s how you say it. Even the best suggestion will not prove helpful unless a receptive atmosphere is created. Learn 14 strategies for delivering helpful feedback and learn the critical dynamics of coaching relationships.
Presentations skills for Principals and teacher leaders
How to never run the staff meeting that everyone dreads attending. Learn how to present to your peers and operate successful staff and committee meetings. Participants will leave understanding how to manage and put group dynamics to positive use.
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