Course Overview:
Learn effective verbal-based communication skills that help teachers reach and teach students. Discover use of words that empower, uplift, and affirm and phrases that motivate and inspire.Build relationships through use of empathy, understanding and mutual respect. Prepare how to deal with the everyday challenges and stresses of being a professional educator. Gain the knowledge and skills to walk confidently into your classroom. The book, The Teacher Talk Advantage: Five Voices of Effective Teaching by Chuck Moorman & Thomas Haller. is required for this course.
Course Objectives:
In this course, participants will have opportunity:
- Learn how to summarize and apply each of the Five Voices; structure, nurture, teaching, debriefing and accountably, in a learning environment.
- Teach personal responsibility and help students create purpose, mission, and direction in their lives.
- Learn how the Five Voices of Effective Teaching, can teach effective verbal-filled communication skills that help teachers reach and teach students.
- Implement verbal skills necessary to help students make decisions and find their own solutions
- Teach a curriculum built not around subjects, but rather around core concepts such as honesty, diversity, responsibility, inner-knowing, solution-seeking, and personal power.
Instructor
Anthony Patricola
B.A. Secondary Education/History, M.S. in Special Education and SDA Professional Certification ProgramK-8 Special Ed in Public Schools level 20+ years.
Anthony is enthusiastic about differentiating rigorous curriculum and pedagogy to meet Special Needs students.
My current educational goal is helping other teachers to reach the struggling student and achieve educational growth for all students in the classroom.
Anthony’s personal interests include family, health and fitness, volunteering in my local community, coaching and officiating soccer and basketball.