The Workshop is an intense participatory in-service designed to elevate attentiveness and comprehension in the classroom. The workshop is modeled from the companion text series Teaching Strategies written by nationally-recognized educator Brian Pack. In a career encompassing urban and private venues, Pack reveals methods that arouse the brain's reward circuitry to incentivize teachers and students, amplify recall, and foster inquiry and analysis. It is held on site and adjusted to accommodate the school's time window. Reviews:Click
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Topic Areas
•Why we crave validation and empowerment.
•Boys and girls growing up in the Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat world. •The human mind: memory, neuroplasticity, and child development. •Motivation, trust, and student expression. •You, the educational leader. The student and content area learning. •How combination pedagogy effectively stimulates drive, empathy, and achievement. |
Activities
Extemporaneous speaking
Essays Board/Card Games ACT sample quiz Dramatic Reading Journaling Video Analysis To learn more about customized programs contact: Brian Pack bpack1121@gmail.com bestclassrooms@gmail.com |
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The workshop reinforces the reward circuitry through validation and empowerment. As head class counselor Pack developed leadership retreats for students and teachers that incorporated interactive exercises and challenges. By witnessing amplified enthusiasm, he altered his classroom pedagogy in an analogous manner, giving students a more prominent role as facilitators and leaders.
In this context, the workshop will have teachers and students perform tasks that reinforce personal validation and serve as a model for their lesson plans and learning.
By partaking in this workshop classrooms will be transformed:
1. Students will be affirmed as intelligent and valued individuals.
2. Students will gain a sense of empowerment and take responsibility for the knowledge flow.
In addition, teachers and students will be instructed on how positive interdependence enables individuals to succeed through goal setting and cooperation. Furthermore, the use of scripts will reveal how constructive verbalization leads to camaraderie and drive, creating a sense of ownership of the content area, as well as reduce discipline issues. A critical element is that the validation is peer driven, the most important source of affirmation amongst children and teens.
It will be an empowering experience, impacting learning, and hopefully give everyone the same pleasure and esteem Brian Pack derived by validating students as respected learners and personalities in the social media-crazed world.
Reviews
Attending the program was a
real privilege and far more meaningful for me than any media coverage on the
subject. You put together an experience that was moving, educational, heartfelt,
and memorable. I was so glad I was there.
That
was incredibly thoughtful. You did a wonderful job covering the topics with
dignity that made it a topnotch presentation. Thank you.
Thank
you for your very interesting and well-documented presentation. You did a
terrific job integrating photos into your talk. You spoke with clarity and enthusiasm!
What
an excellent way to end the winter term! The talk was thoughtful, offering
mature perspective on important topics.
Wow! What a terrific presentation. Thank you for the time and effort you put into it.
The extended silence at the close of the talk struck me as the tangible emotional reaction to our faculty in this important program. Your organization of images and messages into three parts provided a meaningful division, giving a framework for grasping the issue. Conceiving and organizing this program and accompanying photographic display was an enormous task and I am sure nobody on our faculty could have done it.
The extended silence at the close of the talk struck me as the tangible emotional reaction to our faculty in this important program. Your organization of images and messages into three parts provided a meaningful division, giving a framework for grasping the issue. Conceiving and organizing this program and accompanying photographic display was an enormous task and I am sure nobody on our faculty could have done it.
