Conference Sessions
Strands
Friday, February 20
Session A 9:30 AM–10:45 AM
Session AB 9:30 AM–12:15 PM
Session B 11:00 AM–12:15 PM
Session C 2:15 PM–3:30 PM
Saturday, February 21
Session D 9:30–10:45 AM
Session DE 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Session E 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Student Support & Intervention
AB9
Reaching and Teaching Every Student
Joseph Pauley, Lecturer, George Washington University, MD; Judith Ann Pauley, Adjunct Professor, Cal State San Marcos, MD
A science teacher in an inner-city Los Angeles high school was having problems with her students. They had no interest in school and intended to drop out of school at the first opportunity. The teacher began applying the concepts of process communication in her classes. Students' motivation improved, they started doing their homework, their grades improved, and they stopped their acting-out behaviors. Participants will learn these concepts so they can reach every student.
Strands: Student Support and Intervention
B10
Rebels with Applause: Brain-Compatible Approaches for Motivating Reluctant Learners
Grace Dearborn, Educational Consultant, Conscious Teaching, LLC, CA
How do we address our "rebel" students who seem to have the hardest time paying attention and getting work done? This lively, fun, and interactive session will provide teachers and staff developers with dozens of practical, brain-based strategies they can use to help get "rebel" students of varying abilities and learning styles involved and motivated, and help them retain more.
Strands: Student Support & Intervention, NEW SESSION
C10
Why Try? Innovative Interventions that Provide Hope and Motivate Youth to Overcome Poverty, Violence, and Failure
Christian Moore, Founder, the WHYTRY Organization, UT
This presentation provides the audience with tools to help youth answer the question, "Why try in life?" Christian Moore walks the audience through several methods to teach emotional intelligence and life skills such as anger management, problem solving, overcoming peer pressure, and keeping laws and rules. This workshop emphasizes a strength-based approach to helping youth overcome their challenges using multiple intelligence methods that emphasize the youths' learning styles-an approach that will help you teach in ways youth will understand and remember.
Strands: Student Support & Intervention