Recess can be a rewarding time of recreation and connection, or a time of stress and conflict. Between the violence of dodgeball and yawns of duck-duck-goose, we want to explore the possiblities for your recess experience.

Is English your favorite subject or your greatest obstacle? Jonathan offers general tips for teaching language, including some aspects of language teaching that are different from teaching other subjects. Jonathan then teaches a...

Dennis teaches a model middle-grade math class and describes his usual approach.

How do we get our students to sing with enthusiasm when neither they nor we feel like it? Bring some ideas and we’ll share them with each other.

You have a lot to manage, and you're tired. Will you fade into the night, or climb toward the dying light? Mervin urges us to give everything we have to be effective in the kingdom.

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This workshop will focus on three principles that help us educate dyslexics and other challenged learners.

Is your talking communicating? Do you need a brush-up on your communication skills? What about when someone else in the relationship wants to talk and I don’t really feel like talking?

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How and when should I punish? Does the punishment fit the crime? Is punishment the same as discipline? What is discipline? Am I being consistent? Am I being effective?

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,...

Can you control your bite, the bitterness that rises up when students act out? Mervin urges us to cultivate the rule of temperance: to stop shooting with words.

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What provides perfect, sure, right, and pure guidance for the teacher and her class? The speakers reflect on the power and life in God's word.

Perhaps your manners and procedures are excellent..... and then again, maybe not. Do you lead or follow your teachers? Are school board's children the first to know plans and board decisions? How can the chairman relate...

This workshop is for board members who actually have been outdistance by the ones they are to manage, the teacher (or at least perceive this to be the case). If you are feeling intimidated and insignificant, this discussion will...

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...

Is this really worth it? Come to this workshop prepared to relax and rejoice in the goodness of God.

You know things. You find some of them interesting. But will your students agree? As you present in the classroom, says Jonah, your goal is to make what you know accessible and interesting to your students. In other words, you...