Facilitated by the author of And Gladly Teach, the best selling guide to developing cooperative classrooms, this workshop explores strategies for creating a positive and productive working environment for students and teachers alike.Featuring highly effective, easy-to-implement classroom management techniques, resources & lesson-plans this course provides practical steps for teaching young people to take responsibility for their studies. The course covers strategies for diffusing potential conflicts and minimizing disruptive behaviours, highly engaging games and activities that encourage students to take greater responsibility for their class and homework practice and curriculum solutions to common types of off-task behaviour.The workshop also explores engagement strategies for transforming disinterested and dysfunctional class groups, techniques for creating a sense of collective student responsibility and fostering a positive & productive environment in which excellence is celebrated

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