Training & Consulting
After assessment and evaluation, our Teacher Training program will be customized to meet the needs of the participating schools. This training is designed to give teachers strategies that they can use the next day in their classrooms. Mr. Surdam has a way to make the trainings upbeat and interactive. Teachers walk away from the training with a positive outlook on the power they have to change the future by believing that every student that enters their class will be successful.
The following are a sample of the topics that are taught and their outcomes:
Classroom Management:
Effective Teaching:
American Curriculum:
Executive Function:
Project Based Learning:
Cooperative Learning:
Multiple Intelligence:
English Language Development
The following are a sample of the topics that are taught and their outcomes:
Classroom Management:
- Training focuses on the importance classroom management plays on student learning and achievement.
- Teachers will create positive learning environments where students are the focus and are engaged.
Effective Teaching:
- Training focuses on the research of the characteristics of an effective teacher.
- As an outcome, teachers will develop classrooms that are pleasant, well organized and students are engaged.
American Curriculum:
- Training looks at the American curriculum and Standards. Providing an opportunity for teachers to obtain strategies to help them better understand American Education.
- Teachers will leave this training with more confidence in their ability to teach using American Curriculum and strategies.
Executive Function:
- A look at the part of the brain that develops from infancy into young adulthood in which students are able to problem solve, organize and self-regulate.
- After this training teachers will be able to better understand their student’s and create a plan to provide students with needed strategies to help develop this part of their brain.
Project Based Learning:
- This training looks at the power Project Based Learning gives to students. Students are given the opportunity to determine their learning.
- As an outcome, teachers will empower students by giving them opportunities to learn through hands-on projects that motivate and excite.
Cooperative Learning:
- The focus of Cooperative Learning is for students to learn the importance of working together. This training gives step by step instruction on how to develop a successful cooperative learning environment in the classroom.
- After this training teachers will create an atmosphere where students collaborate and work together.
Multiple Intelligence:
- Multiple Intelligence looks at the different student learning styles. This training gives teachers strategies to discover student learning styles and how to address them.
- Teachers leave this training with the ability to understand different learning styles and develop lessons to meet their students individual learning needs.
English Language Development
- The way English is taught will determine the success of the students in the future. This training gives teachers proven strategies that will allow students to increase their English language proficiency and knowledge.
- After this training teachers will be able to effectively provide a stronger English Language Development program in their classroom.