Professional Development
Helping Your Educators and Your Campus Succeed!
Professional Development is a win-win for educators and students. Better-trained, highly equipped educators make a more significant impact on students.
An exceptional team of qualified educators with both classroom and administrative experience deliver all of the trainings with one goal in mind: helping your campus and your educators succeed. The following trainings are designed for educators teaching grade levels 1-12.
Math, Reading, Writing, and Science
Implementing High-Quality, Subject-Based Instruction Our experienced educators help your teachers deliver high-quality instruction by using both the Motivation Teacher and Student Editions in each subject area: Math, Reading, Writing, and Science.
Educators benefit from the expertise of the Mentoring Minds resource development team as they share best practices for implementing subject-based instruction based on research, data, and classroom and application experience.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
Take Total Motivation to the next level!
Total Motivation Product Training: Getting Started with Motivation Online
Your teachers will:
Onsite trainings or webinar formats available.
Total Motivation: Differentiate Instruction with Print and Online
Your trainers will:
Available for teachers and in a train-the-trainer format.
Common Core Standards
Teaching for Success with Common Core Standards Ensure effective implementation of the Common Core State Standards by understanding how standards and strategies work together to improve education, and accelerate the process of preparing and designing instruction that improves teaching and learning. Strategies and techniques will be shared as you learn how to use flexible, educational resources in group or individual settings to increase academic performance through the integration of Common Core State Standards.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
Math and Reading
Implementing High-Quality, Subject-Based Instruction Our experienced educators help your teachers deliver high-quality instruction by using built to the Common Core Motivation Teacher and Student Editions in Math and Reading. Educators benefit from the expertise of the Mentoring Minds resource development team as they learn best practices for implementing subject-based instruction based on research, data, and classroom and application experience.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
Figure 19
No other standards in the TEKS are more tightly linked to college and career readiness from grades Kindergarten to English 4 than the standards in Figure 19. When students read, regardless of the genre or type of text, they process through Figure 19 skills as they comprehend and analyze the text. This highly effective training strengthens teachers’ understandings of Figure 19 and provides strategies to help students develop the metacognitive skills necessary to interpret meaning and understand the author’s purpose.
Key Learnings:
Navigating the New Math TEKS
Learn how to navigate the changes in the new Math TEKS for greater classroom success. The new Math TEKS contain greater specificity, which means teachers must know how to unpack each of the TEKS and identify its cognitive complexity. In this unique training, we will explore in detail the new Personal Financial Literacy Standards, K-8th Mathematical Process Standards, and the changes in K-8th mathematical fluency timelines. We will also explain how using the Texas Response to Curriculum Focal Points document can help teachers plan units and design lessons more effectively.
Key Learnings:
Formative Assessment
A Focus on Student Learning Understand the importance of creating a balanced classroom assessment approach by using formative assessments. Learn how both teachers and students use feedback to help clarify misconceptions and re fine skills during the learning process.
Discover how to utilize information gathered during student learning by using a variety of formative assessment strategies.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
Response To Intervention (RTI)
Prevent Academic Failure Support students with learning and behavioral needs with the Response to Intervention (RTI) process. Prevent academic failure through early intervention, frequent progress monitoring, and increasingly intensive research-based instructional interventions for students in general education classrooms who continue to exhibit difficulty in learning.
Participants will learn strategies and techniques for responding to the needs of learners and how to use the educational resource, Response to Intervention Flip Chart®.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
Differentiated Instruction
Teaching All Learners Instruction must be designed to meet the needs of individual students. Participants will learn what it means to teach every child and how to use the educational resource, Differentiated Instruction Guide®.
Strategies and techniques will be shared to assist in personalizing instructional practices to ensure the success of diverse learners. Designing and implementing differentiated instruction can facilitate progress in ways that meet the needs of all learners.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking in Today's Classroom Learn how to create a critical thinking environment in the classroom by using practical, research-based strategies for implementing higher-order thinking.
Experience specific critical thinking exercises in order to incorporate them into classroom instruction. Demonstrations are provided on how to integrate critical thinking strategies using a variety of formats.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
Bullying and Prevention
Face Bullying with Confidence Stop bullying behaviors and create a safe learning environment for students. In all schools, educators must learn how to reduce existing bullying situations and prevent the development of future problems.
This training will introduce participants to types of bullying and share ways that have proven to be successful for addressing bullying. These strategies and techniques can help administrators, teachers, staff, students, and parents face bullying with con fidence. Educational resources will be provided that support bullying intervention and prevention. Bullying processes that are an integral component of the school environment and that target the entire school population will have positive effects on students.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
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Full-day, half-day, and webinar trainings available.
