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Bring my Time To Teach Classroom Management Seminar
to Your School or District.

• On-Site Training: A full-day of six-eight hours (in one or two days) is available for booking with me at your school or district.  This career-enhancing opportunity is fast-paced and filled with scores and scores of useful and practical strategies.  Your entire educational community can learn how to implement this exciting and effective system, including REFOCUS™—the most powerful solution to low and high-level problem behavior ever developed.  Time To Teach training is especially known to be motivating, refreshing, humorous, and packed with ideas that your teachers can use tomorrow! See real results--in yourself and your students, rejuvenate your passion for teaching, and earn graduate credit through Chapman University.   

The Center For Teacher Effectiveness is rapidly becoming the leading provider of teacher training and staff development for educators in the United States, Canada, and abroad. We teach our innovative and highly effective strategies at seminars and education conferences, in schools and districts and are helping teachers everywhere!  Our research and data spans back several decades. We have learned strategies proven to help children and teachers, which are verifiable and replicable and which are supported by all current and eminent researchers like Robert Marzano, and we have jettisoned all those ideas which do not work. We are not some new fad or gimmick in the world of education. The nucleus of Time To Teach began some forty years ago. Part of the development of our strategies began with the help and guidance or Dr. Madeline Hunter, professor of education at UCLA and with John Wooden, the famed basketball coach and American icon, also from UCLA.

      At the end of my presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Reduce low-level misbehavior and office referrals.
2. Implement strategies and enhance the educational climate of their respective classes and buildings.
3. Spend more time on being an instructional leader, rather than a disciplinarian. 
 
     Warnings, Warnings, Warnings…How Many Is Enough?
So much of a teacher’s time is committed to the handful of students who are continuously disrupting the classroom and having to be addressed.  Time To Teach! is a set of classroom strategies proven to eliminate the multiple warnings and repeated requests in a way that is efficient and effective, while nurturing excellence and empowerment in all of your students. 
     Are you running your classroom
            or is your classroom running you?  
Tired of classroom management gimmicks and cumbersome discipline bookkeeping systems?  Time To Teach uses simple strategies to diffuse and amuse not confuse and abuse! Alleviate up to 70% of classroom discipline problems and walk away with simple yet effective techniques that you can use in your classroom on Monday!
     “But I’m such a great teacher!” 
Achievement gaps can occur for many reasons.  One significant cause is due to the disruption of the classroom because of certain student behaviors.  Classroom management is a daily challenge for any educator.  Whether you are the new teacher excited to take on the world or the seasoned veteran who has probably experienced about every type of student there can be, classroom management is forever a challenge.  Time To Teach! provides educators with a set of strategies that can be used immediately.  These strategies allow a teacher to eliminate repeated warnings and multiple requests.  Any educator will be able to stand tall and deliver his/her lessons with confidence and productivity.  Never again pass up a difficult student who could benefit from your enhanced learning environment for lack of classroom discipline skills.  No longer will you have to be constantly dealing with classroom disruptions.  Instead, you will have what is really important--Time To Teach!  

     Who Should Attend?
• Superintendants, principals, K-12 teachers, special education teachers, counselors, psychologists, at-risk coordinators, title 1 coordinators, special education directors, staff development directors, para-professionals, educational assistants, administrators, curriculum directors, school board members, parents.

     All educators who:
• Want a program that significantly reduces classroom / school discipline problems by teaching self-discipline, responsibility, cooperation, and problem-solving skills
• Believe that good behavior is as important as academics in helping students be successful in work, in the community,
and in relationships
• Know that non-punitive methods work best for long-range positive results with students, and who want a large toolbox
of non-punitive methods
• Want classrooms where students demonstrate mutual respect

     Especially those educators who want to:
• Increase student achievement
• Create positive classroom behavior
• Intervene effectively when students misbehave
• Develop a classroom climate and school culture based on caring, clear limits, consistency, and respect
• Motivate apathetic, reluctant learners, and potential dropouts
• Build a foundation for the prevention of violence
• Improve home, school, and community collaboration
• Promote character education and the development
of good citizenship

     Why Attend? You are guaranteed to learn how to:
• Eliminate repeated warnings & multiple requests
   in a positive fashion
• Teach the disrespectful to be respectful
• Teach the unmotivated to be motivated
• Teach the irresponsible to be responsible
• Be proactive rather than reactive
• Arrange any classroom for maximum achievement
• Avoid power struggles
• Capture student attention
• Refocus™ the reluctant learner
• Use a myriad of powerful prompting techniques
• Spend quality time with ALL students in your classroom

     Several Supporting Materials
          are available for purchase or order:

•  Time To Teach: Encouragement, Empowerment,
and Excellence in Every Classroom By Rick Dahlgren & Judy Hyatt
 
•  Teach-To’s: 100 Behavior Lesson Plans & Essential Advice to
Encourage High Expectations and Winning Classroom Behavior!
By Rick Dahlgren & Melanie Lattimer

•  Time To Teach! DVD: Nearly six hours of instruction that school 
administrators can use for continuing staff development

•  Music CD: Teaching the Blues Away
By Rick Dahlgren & John Carswell, renowned blues musician

     Required Textbook for full-day School/District Training:

•  Time To Teach! The Source for Classroom Management
By Rick Dahlgren, Brett Malas, Dr. Joanna Faulk, & Melanie    
Lattimer: This 200-page Resource Manual is exclusive to training
participants.

Trainer Biography

Passionate about education, Natalie Gunn brings hope, laughter, and best of all, sensible solutions to teachers challenged by the diverse students who enter their classrooms.  A dynamic speaker, musician, and master teacher, Natalie’s experience spans from Pre-K to higher education in her work to create successful students both in the classroom and in extracurricular activities.  Recognized for her many accomplishments, Natalie has "been there," and shares proven classroom management strategies designed to put you, the classroom teacher, back into the driver's seat.  Let Natalie’s motivational methods and practical, hands on solutions inspire your own teaching ideas that are applicable tomorrow! (Press photo available upon request.)