Training Series Special for 2023-24 School Year

Classroom management is one of the most important pillars for successful teaching and learning. Over the last 40 years, we have struggled to understand how to appropriately and effectively teach the concept of classroom management. Classroom management has been inaccurately defined as “keeping students quiet or under control.” However, this alone does not represent the complete process of classroom management. I believe it is time to focus on helping our teachers better understand student management. 

Many teachers struggle with managing the personalities and different learning styles of many students. Classroom management—maintaining order and an adult professional presence in a classroom—is not a strategy to be taught; it is the practice of student management, which primarily deals with people management. Poor classroom management reflects poor planning and content delivery. Student management always starts with the foundation of respect. The first level of respect must be the teacher’s respect for themselves, how they treat students, and demanding respect. This is a critical foundation for successful classroom and student management.

In today’s classroom, teachers must understand how their personality, energy, approach to teaching and learning, and the way they allow students to treat them will be vital to maintaining control in the classroom. Over the last 20 years, I have determined that only teaching teachers how to build relationships with students is not an effective solution to classroom management issues. In fact, this can be a very counterproductive way to help a teacher achieve their ultimate goal, which should be student growth and development via successful teaching and learning practices. 

This training program will give teachers clear blueprints on how to carry themselves and better understand their personalities and approaches in an authoritative position. “Respect” is a word that has been consistently misinterpreted. A generation of adults was taught to respect adults just because they were adults and to respect authority based on someone’s position. Over the last 30 years, many of our students and families have developed different values and mentalities towards education and authority, which have become very destructive and antagonistic. Many parents now encourage their children to cause conflict in the classroom. Students are frequently made to believe that if anyone does not allow them to do what they think is correct, then they are being disrespected and have a right to create disruption and disregard the teacher’s authority. This is something that the teacher must be prepared and trained to manage.

This training program will help guide teachers through critical foundational principles of how to build and maintain a successful classroom and student management approach in their learning environment. This training will challenge, guide, and build teachers’ confidence and belief. When students are not learning and not receptive to what the teacher is instructing, it can damage their confidence. Once confidence has been affected and altered, teaching and learning are almost impossible. If a teacher does not have confidence in themself, they will struggle with teaching and helping students learn. If a teacher does not have self-control, they will overexert their authority and create an environment that does not promote teaching and learning.

This training series will teach and help instructors: 

· To better understand why classroom management has become a severe issue. 

· Why destructive habits were developed during COVID-19 

· The 21 powerful pillars for student management

· How to establish productive and positive classroom culture

· The importance of creating structure in classroom environment

· How to implement and teach classroom etiquette

· How to promote order

· The significance of taking ownership of classroom

· The art of being consistent

· How to avoid teacher burnout

· How to be aware of personal traumas that impact the classroom environment

· How to improve communication 

· How to understand the necessity of confrontation in a student-teacher relationship

· Positive behavior approaches that work at elementary and upper levels of education

· Four things that all successful teachers must do

· Strategies to improve engagement in classroom

· How to deal with rebellious students

· The importance of identifying and understanding your personality type 

· How to identify student personality types 

· Dos and don’ts of successful student classroom management 

· Dos and don’ts for dealing with disruptive students (how to set boundaries)

· The impact of social class differences on education and approach to classroom conduct 

· How to effectively help students who have not yet understood how to act and importance of education 

· How to develop productive self-identity

· How to build appropriate student–teacher relationships 

· How to avoid being boring 

· How to improve engagement for at-risk students 

· Twelve pillars of classroom innovation

This training excels at helping teachers build themselves up professionally and personally to approach the difficult job of teaching today’s students. It will also help teachers understand the necessary approach that must be taken to foster an educational environment that has order and the proper guidance to develop student learning ability. This training will improve a teacher’s classroom and student management approaches and maintain a productive learning environment for all students.

Presentation Time: 90 minutes to 2 hours (per session)

Room Layout: On campus or on Zoom/Virtual training room

Anticipated Audience: Cap limit is 25 to 50.

All sessions are facilitated by Dr. Jesse W. Jackson III.

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