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Speaker- Each of the presentations described below can be adapted to suit specific audiences (i.e. for school counselors, parents, librarians, etc.). I have previously created and taught graduate level courses on each topic for students who teach everything from pre-school through technical college. For information on my Keynote Speaking click here. Inservice Programs
Infusing Humor into the Classroom This presentation provides strategies for using humor to teach, motivate, and delight students. Participants will examine the logic of humor and a wide variety of techniques any educator can use to reduce stress, diffuse tension, build relationships and community, and motivate students. Attend this upbeat session and learn how to identify opportunities to create classroom humor and thereby to inspire students to learn. Creative Strategies for
Motivating Students to Read This presentation explores dynamic motivational strategies in the language arts. Drawing ideas from working with teachers as a professor for fifteen years, from performing motivational assembly programs, and from teaching classes on creativity, I’ve assembled a fantastic collection of motivational techniques in reading and writing. Games, magic, juggling, storytelling, “Proverbidiums” and “Shakespearience”, US presidents, kiwi fruit, the amazing bubble, and improvisational theater and but a few of the many sources of motivation presented. Storytelling Techniques or
How Dincerella Slopped This presentation provides hands-on techniques for creating stories, telling stories, and teaching students to tell stories. Participants learn strategies for using their voices, facial expressions, bodies, and imaginations to effectively tell stories and incorporate stories into the curriculum. In addition, they explore improvisational storytelling and identifying sources of stories to tell. Teaching in the Energized Classroom This presentation offers techniques for educators to become more dynamic classroom leaders and for making students more energetic, effective learners. Participants analyze their own energy levels and ways to become more energetic, they examine their classrooms and identify opportunities for making their classrooms more vibrant learning environments, and they develop strategies for using energizing activities to motivate their students and to build cohesive classroom communities. We’ll experiment with “energies” produced through movement, speech, music, sports, theater, technology, surprises, ‘raising the stakes’, and creative teaching. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein This presentation offers strategies for helping students and teachers to think creatively. The result will be to help students to solve problems flexibly, embrace intellectual challenges, work independently, trust their intuition, and develop confidence. We will explore traditional creative thinking strategies and ways to tap a “subconscious”, mostly unutilized source of creativity we each possess. I have presented conference and convention kick-off, luncheon, and closing keynote presentations including: State Reading Conventions: Early Childhood Conventions: Conferences: Social Service Agency Conventions: General Educational Conventions: RECENT INSERVICE PROGRAM/WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS: storyteller/juggler
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