This lively interactive workshop provides Primary and Secondary teachers with practical strategies based on current research on the brain that helps boost student involvement, motivation, and retention. Participants will explore how the brain learns, with focus on the MEANS for making a difference:

· Memory - key ways to increase your students' retention

· Emotion - its critical role in student learning

· Attention - how to get it and maintain it

· New Meaning - how to “wire it” into long-term memory

· Strategies - Dozens that are Brain-Compatible

Plus:

1.     Over thirty approaches for motivating all your students, especially your reluctant learners

2.     Classroom Management Strategies that are geared primarily for the at-risk student

3.     Lesson Plan Ideas That Work

4.     Conscious Classroom Management: Bringing Out the Best in Students and Teachers

Rick Smith is an international education consultant and national presenter. He has shared practical teaching strategies to tens of thousands of teachers and teacher-trainers worldwide, including two years training American Peace Corps Volunteer Teachers in Ghana, West Africa. Rick was a classroom teacher for over fourteen years, focusing primarily on students-at-risk. He's been a mentor/support provider and mentor coordinator for many years, and has taught in both Elementary and Secondary Credential programs in northern California.

Rick has conducted hundreds of workshops on effective classroom management and instructional strategies, in addition to dozens of keynote speeches nationally that are consistently praised for both their motivational and practical value.
His feature article "Mentoring New Teachers: Strategies, Structures, and Successes," appears in Teacher Education Quarterly.  His bestselling book Conscious Classroom Management: Unlocking the Secrets of Great Teaching is currently being used by the majority of the new teachers in the ten largest school districts in America.  It is rapidly becoming the number one book in the country for classroom management and student motivation.

Date: Tue, 25 - Wed, 26 November  08          Deadline: Fri, 7 Nov 08

Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm 

Venue: The Grassroots’ Club, 190 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8, (S) 568046

Fees: Standard rate - $350, STU-members discounted rate - $280                                                                                     

(Registration fees inclusive of course materials,  tea-breaks, lunches and prevailing GST.)