Keynotes & Workshops for Teachers
Effectively Balancing Your Time When There’s So Much to do
KEYNOTE
Virtual available
Teachers can be overwhelmed by marking, phone calls, prep, emails and student behavior. As a teacher for more than thirty years, Susan has experienced and observed her colleagues dealing with these challenges. Susan shares timesaving solutions to give teachers breathing room and lighten their workload.
After attending this Keynote, teachers will:
- Create solutions to manage their time in the classroom
- Successfully interact with students and staff by changing their own perspective
- Manage the little things that wear them down
Helping Teachers Become Better Teachers AND Have a Life Beyond Teaching
Ten Things No One Taught You
About Teaching!
WORKSHOP OR IN-DEPTH SEMINAR
Virtual available
First year teachers can be overwhelmed by everything they have to do. If you are struggling trying to help all students succeed AND having enough time to prepare, this workshop will help you take a breath, fix some problems and take home some engaging activities to use in your classroom. These ten things will help your year run more smoothly.
After participating in this workshop, teachers will:
- Be able to discuss humour with their students
- Teach a unit about humour to Grade eight (and up) students
- Encourage students to bring out their “inner comic” by developing a funny story about themselves.
How to Teach Humour for Stress Relief,
Life Skills and Fun!
WORKSHOP
Virtual available
This workshop is an informative and interactive session discussing the place of humor in your classroom. Susan has “lived” humor in her own classroom and has developed actual humor lessons suitable for students grade eight and up. She will discuss how humor works in the classroom and how to resolve problems through humor. This will spill over to the staffroom as well!
After participating in this workshop, teachers will:
- Be able to discuss humor with their students
- Be prepared to teach a unit about humor
- Encourage students to bring out their “inner comic” by developing a funny story about themselves
- Successfully demonstrate ways humor can be used to retain content
Teaching Art with No Art Room,
No Budget and Lots of Kids!
WORKSHOP
Virtual available
This workshop shows teachers new ways to organize their classroom to accommodate supplies as well as the artwork done by students. It introduces different art techniques with special focus on three-dimensional media; clay, soapstone, and papier mâché.
After participating in this workshop teachers will be:
- Prepared to begin an art program
- Able to organize their regular classroom; one medium at a time
- Confident about building on what they already have been teaching
- Enthused about teaching three-dimensional techniques!
