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Developing 21st Century Learners and Thinkers

Habits of Mind Bootcamp (+ Leadership Challenge)

How to Bully-Proof Your Kids

NLK Switch On to Learning

How to Bully-Proof Your Kids 

Howard Small

Searching for ways to help children and students deal with angry, aggressive and anti-social behaviours? The strategies in this workshop can be adapted and used for all ages. Learn how to change passive and aggressive into Assertive and Confident. Discover how to change defiance & non-compliance into Cooperative and Harmony.

Auckland    20-Oct
Hamilton    21-Oct - Canceled
Rotorua    22-Oct - Canceled
Napier    23-Oct - Canceled

All run from 4pm – 7pm. Venues to be advised.
$99pp / $89pp for groups of 3 or more.

Howard Small is creator of the ‘My Attitude Is Everything’ resources, which help create emotional resiliency and harmony for families and schools. He has more than 25 years experience in the education arena as a teacher, author, life-skills tutor, special-ed needs coordinator, and was former NZ coordinator of ‘You Can Do It!’ education.

“…the ideas are completely transferable straight to the classroom and can be used for all levels, including adults.”

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Developing 21st Century Learners and Thinkers

Karen Boyes

There are six important considerations for teaching in the 21st century:
1) resist the temptation to ‘tell’
2) stop teaching decontextualised content
3) stop giving students the final product of our thinking
4) make a shift in our thinking to problems first, teaching second
5) progressively withdraw from helping students
6) re-evaluate evaluation
This workshop relates these areas to developing your students as thinkers.

Auckland    11-Sep   
Hamilton    14-Oct

All run from 4pm – 7pm.
Venues to be advised.
$99pp / $89pp for groups of 3 or more

Karen Boyes is described as Australasia's ‘Mrs Education.’ An expert in effective teaching, learning and living, Karen turns research into practical and simple to use techniques that create success. A dynamic presenter, she inspires teachers and students around the world.

“Not only does Karen have up-to-date information, she combines excellent content with excellent presentation skills in a way to relate to any audience.” Jeannette McCallum

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The Emotional Curriculum in the Classroom 

Maggie Dent

Why is emotional literacy so important and how do we build it in our students? Learn the three reasons for unacceptable behaviour, emotional diffusing techniques that really work and the key roles communication, imagination and laughter have in building trust. Experience activities that build connectedness, empathy and how to reach the unreachable student. 

Auckland    8-Sep   
Hamilton    9-Sep   
Rotorua    10-Sep
Napier    11-Sep

All run from 4pm – 7pm. Venues to be advised.
$115pp / $105pp for groups of 3 or more

Maggie Dent is an educator, an author and a parenting and resilience specialist. With a varied background (including radio, palliative care, education and celebrant) Maggie runs seminars that highlight the importance of building personal and professional resilience.

“I love your energy and your heart… We all need an injection from time to time of your blithe spirit.” Bryce Courtenay

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NLK Switch On to Learning

Marion Miller

This is a workshop that will teach you simple strategies to ‘switch on’ your students for learning, and how to cater for disruptive and low performing students! Gain practical strategies that guarantee your students are calm, relaxed and in a peak state for learning.

Hamilton    16-Aug   
Auckland    20-Sep

All run from 9am – 5pm.
Venues to be advised.
$175pp / $145 for groups of 3 or more.

Marion Miller is a Chartered Natural Therapies Practitioner and Instructor in Neuro-Linguistic Kinesiology and Touch for Health Kinesiology. She came across kinesiology when the elder of her two children was diagnosed with a learning disability. She has now been working in the field for over 25 years.

“Marion’s delivery of the material was clear, concise and easy to follow. The amount of interactive learning was very beneficial.”

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Habits of Mind Bootcamp (+ Leadership Challenge)

Karen Boyes / Graham Watts / Georgette Jenson / Trudy Francis + others

This is NOT a 4-day seminar where you simply sit and listen to presenters.

The Habits of Mind Boot Camp is a true hands-on experience of teaching in action.

Over four action-packed days you will:

• Acquire the tools every teacher must have
• Learn the processes to create, plan and teach powerful lessons
• Be mentored by an incredible group of successful teachers and presenters
• Be involved in the actual transformation of schools with the Habits Of Mind Challenge 2008
• Witness the effect of the Habits of Mind in real-life situations
• Learn how to build your teaching capacity and students abilities
• Benefit from the opportunity to make important decisions about your teaching, away from your day-to-day classroom
• Have more FUN than is allowed!
• Plus… you will learn more than you thought possible

The Thinking Toolbox

When you arrive at the Boot Camp, you will receive a comprehensive manual containing working templates (in both hard copy and digital format) that can be modified and used at the Habits Of Mind Boot Camp and in every lesson you teach afterwards.

These essential templates will ensure you cover all aspects, and anticipate the opportunities and pitfalls in such areas as:

• Discovering and exploring the Habits of Mind
• Engaging and activating the Habits of Mind
• Planning for deep understanding
• Evaluation and reporting
• Implementing the Habits of Mind
• Exploring meanings
• Expanding capacities
• Increasing alertness
• Extending values
• Building commitments
• Internalisation
• Habituation

In addition, you will have access to an invaluable resource base to accelerate your learning curve in the areas of:

• Thinking Maps
• Planning and teaching for deep understanding
• Metacognition
• Listening
• Assessments
• Rubrics
• Matrices
• Leadership

And heaps more!

The Habits of Mind Challenge 2008 is at the core of the Boot Camp schedule.

Over the four days you will enhance your understanding of:

• the Habits Of Mind
• the leadership in your school
• your communication abilities
• your personal effectiveness

This combination of personal and professional development will happen in team exercises throughout the event, with partners and independently.

Hamilton    6 - 9 August
Sydney     20 - 23 August

Investment: $895 per person / $795pp for groups of 3 or more
Morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea is included each day

Numbers are strictly limited and will fill quickly!

The Boot Camp Team

Each member of the mentor panel is a leader in their area of expertise. Each will offer you invaluable mentoring to increase your success within the classroom. The format of the Habits Of Mind Boot Camp allows you to gain the most from their extensive Habits of Mind knowledge.

The team is lead by Karen Boyes - a highly skilled, enthusiastic and dynamic presenter with over 18 years experience in the education profession. The leading authority on effective learning and teaching in New Zealand, she is CEO of Spectrum Education and their head facilitator, working with teachers, parents, students and corporate clients.

Graham Watts is currently studying for a PhD in gifted education and thinking skills in London, after being the Director of Advanced Learning at a New Zealand Year 1-13 school. His role involved leading the Thinking Skills program, working closely with all Year-level teachers, helping them infuse the Habits into their classroom, curriculum planning and assessment.

Georgette Jenson brings her wealth of knowledge and wisdom from her classroom in Gisborne. Having personally trained with some of the best thinkers in the world - Rita and Kenneth Dunn, David Hyerle and Art Costa - she puts her expertise of learning styles, Thinking Maps and Habits of Mind into practice in her own classroom.

Trudy Francis is the co-director of C21 Learning, and ex-senior management from College Street Normal School in Palmerston North. She is passionate about assisting teachers to improve the quality of their classroom instruction.

Plus other mentors and facilitators who will lead you on a journey through the Habits Of Mind and leadership.

(Participants wishing to develop their leadership skills further will be specifically mentored by skilled professionals during the four-day event).

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