Workshops

Teaching Students to Manage Themselves.

Strategies for wellness and productivity in the classroom.

This workshop is for teachers who work with school-age students. It is a practical workshop, filled with strategies that will improve classroom wellbeing for both teachers and students.

All the strategies are designed for teachers who are prepared to change their circumstances by changing what they do - teachers who are prepared to challenge the traditional ways of managing students because what they are presently doing may be causing the problems that they are experiencing.

Because teachers have been managing students for so long, the very different emphasis on students managing themselves seems like a significant change. From teacher control to student self-control. It's a huge paradigm shift. However, when we have the tools with which to make the changes required, most teachers can see how to make a new start.

As this workshop will illustrate, it is our controlling behaviours that generate student defiance. The outdated 'carrot and stick' psychology on which rewards and punishments are based is not fit for purpose. Dependence on these outdated ideas can be replaced with a more mature understanding of the behaviour of young people, grounded in cognitive psychology and biological neuroscience. With this psychology of optimal performance, we can teach students how to manage themselves, leaving us to concentrate on what we do best – teaching!