Join in this interactive course and learn practical ways to engage and motivate learners of all ages, inspire a sense of discovery, and create a positive, collaborative and supportive learning community. This course offers a variety of brain-based approaches that involve students emotionally, socially, physically and intellectually. These methods will help you facilitate meaningful dialogue and reflection and maximize social-emotional and academic learning outcomes to cultivate 21st Century Learners. Get your students, moving, talking, reflecting and review and reinforce academic content in novel and engaging ways. Great for teachers, advisory group leaders, guidance staff, and counselors.

Topics Include:

• Active brain-based approaches to promote social-emotional and academic success
• Methods for engaging participants emotionally, physically, intellectually and socially
• Practical tools and engaging activities that develop a healthy atmosphere of respect and trust, peer to peer and teacher to student
• Experiential techniques to help learners build positive peer relationships and practice social-emotional skills such as problem-solving, empathy, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
• New research from the field of educational neuroscience and its impact on learning, teaching and social and emotional skills development in students.
• Reflective methods and the use of metaphor to increase depth of understanding and connection to future learning experiences.
• Techniques to help educators become more “student-centered,” empowering learners to take more control and responsibility for their learning.

Take away practical strategies and activities to support school-wide efforts around increasing engagement and motivation, differentiating instruction, cultivating social-emotional skills and developing a positive and supportive climate.

Hosted by the Lamoille Area Professional Development Academy (LAPDA) • lapdavt.org http://www.lapdavt.org/ • Montpelier, Vermont