Everyone makes mistakes. But we don’t need to repeat all the mistakes of our predecessors. Come to learn about the common pitfalls that teachers can fall into and how we can avoid them. The first step in avoiding a pitfall is...
Am I prepared to teach school? Where do I start? What is most important? If you feel like an elephant that has been dropped into the ocean, this class will give you some techniques and strategies to help keep your head above...
Am I prepared to teach school? Where do I start? What is most important? If you feel like an elephant that has been dropped into the ocean, this class will give you some techniques and strategies to help keep your head above...
What do healthy student/teacher relations look like? Are you, as a teacher, the student’s buddy? Mentor? Dictator? As Derek Overholt addresses the topic of healthy relationships between teachers and students, he emphasizes: Built...
Everyone makes mistakes. But we don’t need to repeat all the mistakes of our predecessors. Come to learn about the common pitfalls that teachers can fall into and how we can avoid them. The first step in avoiding a pitfall is...
What does the Bible say about teachers? How can we as teachers follow the Master Teacher? This session is intended for new teachers. The Privilege of Teaching was presented by Jonah Avina, Derek Overholt, and Verlin Miller at...
Five speakers talk for six minutes about various topics. PTA by Derek Overholt Parent-teacher association is important to foster communication between teachers and parents. PTA meetings help to dispel misconceptions, provide...
In this session, Derek, Jonah, and Jaydon offer brief windows into their school background and explain their goals for teaching. Listen for the inspiration of others' experiences, and to catch the vision which they have of...
The right kind of preparation can empower you to handle the demands of teaching. Derek describes the benefits of preparation, and offers direction for spending your preparation time fruitfully.
You don’t have to teach very long before you are faced with the challenge of helping a slow student get his work finished or desperately trying to find more work for a fast student. But what do you do when you have both in the...
Awareness of the common pitfalls is the first step to staying out of them. What might trip up your teaching? Derek reviews the possibilities: faulty self-concepts, ignorance of technique, poor planning, inneffective discipline,...
