September 12th, 2018 • Nashville, TN • Hosted Explore! Community School • 9:00 -3:00

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 students 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
  • 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

Hosted by Explore! Community School at the Martha O’Bryan Center 9-3:00 • Lunch and Inspired Educator, Inspired Learner book included. Register at experientialtools.com

For more information email: jen@experientialtools.com