When you ask someone to name a person who has had a lasting impact on their life, it is often a
teacher whom they felt respected them and took an interest in helping them see their potential. This is a powerful opportunity we, as educators, have to make a meaningful and lasting impact on young lives. But students are coming to school less prepared, more anxious, and less able to focus. This can cause difficult behaviors that make teaching less rewarding and more challenging. You’ve heard of MINDFULNESS but are wondering how you can incorporate mindfulness practices into your already busy school day in ways that will actually make a difference for you and your students. This workshop focuses on practical and doable strategies to increase your students’ mindfulness to help them find greater school success. This workshop will provide strategies to help students strengthen the connectivity between areas of the brain that support attention and concentration, thus weakening the amygdala’s capacity to hijack the thinking parts of the brain when in an anxious or stressed state. With this awareness, it is easy to see how mindfulness and self-regulation can translate into improved learning. This is true for all students, but especially the most vulnerable ones.

Objectives
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

•  Understand what mindfulness and is not
• Learn a variety of ways to improve student attention
• Increase students’ self- regulation skills
• Learn and teach students about the upstairs downstairs brain

Outline

•  Why mindfulness is so relevant and how it will benefit all your students
• Practice methods to teach student how to focus their attention
• Strategies to teach mindfulness
• Simple ways to weave mindfulness into your day
• Understand what happens in the brain that increases anxiety
• Learn strategies to reduce anxiety
• Understand the role self-compassion plays in self-regulation

Trainer’s Profile

MaryAnn B., MS, holds a master’s degree in family and child counseling from Long Island University and a bachelor’s degree in elementary and special education from D’Youville College. She has over 35 years of experience as a special education teacher, and child/family counselor. She teaches graduate level courses in special education and educational psychology at three colleges. MaryAnn is attuned to the realities of the classroom and the daily challenges teachers face. She is known for her high-energy, motivational seminars filled with a wealth of insights and useful ideas you can implement immediately in your own classroom. Her passion is to help educators gain insights into student behaviors in order to create a safe learning environment where students can discover their talents.

MaryAnn is the author of several books including: Transformative Teaching: Changing Today’s Classroom Culturally, Academically and Emotionally; Respectful Discipline; Dealing with Difficult Parents; and Motivating the Unmotivated Student. MaryAnn’s courses focus on practical solutions for helping students be successful in both the general education and the special education classroom. Her approach to behavioral intervention empowers students and provides realistic solutions for working with challenging behaviors.

Methodology

Didactic instruction, role-play, large and small group discussions, videos, group activities.

Platform

Zoom
A Zoom account is not required if you are strictly joining Zoom Meetings as a participant. An email invite will be emailed to you prior to the live workshop. Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center. Otherwise, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.

Download Zoom Mobile Apps for iPhone or Android
Download Zoom Client for Meetings

Target Audience

For educators teaching Kindergarten through Grade 8.

Fees
1 person: SGD400.00 (USD300.00)/person
2 to 4 person: SGD380.00 (USD290.00)/person
5 person & more: SGD360.00 (USD280.00/person)
E-certificate will be issued

Other Details
Duration: 2 days, 6 hours
Closing Date:  3 May 2023

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