Conference Presentation 2019 Literacy Summit • Lebanon, TN
Join this interactive workshop and fill your teaching or counseling toolbox with experiential, brain-based techniques to inspire, motivate and promote engagement and buy-in. Take away innovative methods to get your groups moving, talking and reflecting. Empower participants to take ownership of learning, practice social-emotional skills, and build a positive, and supportive group environment. Teach and reinforce academic material in novel ways to differentiate instruction and enhance learning. Leave with creative inspiration and new perspectives on your role as an educator, leader, or counselor.
We will explore:
- Experiential, brain-based strategies to actively engage participants physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually in academic and social-emotional learning content
- New research from the field of educational neuroscience that supports and informs experiential education, facilitation, group-building, instructional design, and social-emotional learning
- Novel and dynamic techniques to teach, review and reinforce training and academic content that help learners apply material in meaningful, relevant ways
- Strategies for increasing involvement, buy-in, and ownership of learning
- Techniques to promote social and emotional learning and develop social awareness, relationship skills, social problem-solving, emotional expression and conflict resolution skills
- Interactive activities to build community and promote social and emotional learning while enlivening lessons and differentiating instruction
- A variety of rapport building strategies to develop respect, positive communication, collaboration, and creativity
- Innovative reflection tools and techniques to increase relevancy, meaning, depth of understanding, and connection to future learning situations
For more information email: jen@experientialtools.com