2012 Professional Development Workshop
Join us for an Experiential Education Workshop with Jen Stanchfield, MS:
Get Them Moving, Talking, Reflecting. Keep them Engaged:
Experiential Strategies to Inspire and Motivate Students and Build a Positive and Supportive Environment.
This workshop offers a variety of active learning approaches that engage students emotionally, socially, physically and intellectually. These brain-friendly approaches will help facillitate meaningful dialogue and relfection in the classroom, reinforce social and emotional skills, and review and reinforce academic lessons in a fun and engaging way.
Topic Include: Active brain-friendly approaches to promote social and academic success. Ways to engage learners emotionally, physically, intellectually, and socially. Practical tools and engaging activities that develop a healthy atmostphere of respect and trust, peer to peer and teacher to student. Strategies for creating a postive environment for learning, starting on day one and maintaining it throughout the school year. New research from the field of cognitive neuroscience and its impact on learning, teaching and social and emotional skills development in students. Reflective methods to increase depth of understanding and connection to future learning experiences. Techniques to help educators become more student centered, empowering students to take more control and responsibility for their learning.
Join in this fun and interactive workshop and leave with practical strategies and activities to support school-wide efforts around differentiating instruction and developing a positive and supportive school climate.
Date: Friday September 28th Time: 9:00– 3:00 Cost: $99.00 (Includes lunch & book)
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Please print and fill out the registration form and either send it to Brooke Burkett at Camp Ketcha, 336 Black Point Road, Scarborough, ME 04074, or scan it and email to bburkett@campketcha.org
About Jennifer Stanchfield, MS: In her 20 years as an educator Jen has worked with a wide range of schools across the country, helping them integrate experiential education strategies to promote learning, develop a classroom community, increase student engagement and cultivate important social skills. Through her classroom teaching and as a clinician in treatment centers for children and adolescents, Jen has developed an extensive repertoire of experiential activities, tools and methods she brings to her workshops and training sessions. She is owner of Experiential Tools, a resource for educators and group facilitators. She has a master’s degree in Experiential Education from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Jen is author of A Teachable Moment and Tips & Tools for the Art of Experiential Group Facilitation and co-author of A Teachable Moment: A Facilitator’s Guide to Activities for Processing, Debriefing, Reviewing, and Reflection. For more information you can visit her website: www.experientialtools.com
For more information contact Brooke Burkett at 207.883.8977 ext. 104 or
Email: bburkett@campketcha.org
Don’t miss out on this awesome training! Register today!!