August 16th, 2018 • Exeter, NH • Hosted by NELMS • 9:00 -4:00

Join in this interactive workshop and fill your toolbox with experiential, brain-based techniques to inspire motivate, and meet the diverse needs of students while building a positive and supportive learning community. We will explore a variety of ways to involve learners emotionally, socially, physically, and intellectually in academic and social-emotional learning. These strength-based approaches help educators differentiate instruction and promote connections between educational experiences and real life situations and future learning. Participants will receive a copy of Jen Stanchfield’s Inspired Educator, Inspired Learner book.

We will explore:

  • Experiential, brain-based strategies to actively engage participants physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually
  • New research from the field of educational neuroscience and its impact on learning and social-emotional skills development
  • Methods for creating a positive and supportive environment for learning, starting on day one and maintaining it throughout
  • Strategies for increasing  involvement, buy-in, and ownership of learning experiences
  • Interactive activities to build community while enlivening academic lessons and differentiating instruction
  • Experiential, brain-based teaching approaches to teach, review, and reinforce lessons in a dynamic and engaging way
  • Engaging group-building activities to develop rapport, community, and social-emotional skills such as positive communication, problem-solving, collaboration, and decision-making
  • Strategies for embedding instruction in play including games and activities to teach, reinforce and review academic content –maximizing engagement and learning
  • Innovative reflection tools and techniques to increase relevancy, meaning, depth of understanding, and connection to future learning situations
  • The role of the educator/facilitator as guide, and the importance of flexibility, attitude, adaptation, and awareness of group and individual needs and differences

 

To Register at the New England League of Middle Schools (NELMS) click here.

For more information email: jen@experientialtools.com