A School-Based Modern Group Approach to:
- Conflict
- Communication
- Change
Our training program for administrators, teachers, counselors and parent coordinators with less than 5 years of experience focuses on:
- school-based group dynamics
- classroom leadership
- emotional education and literacy
Stressed by Being the Classroom or Group Leader?
Develop emotional flexibility and hone your emotional radar.
Has anything in your training so far prepared you to deal with the intense feelings and stresses of being classroom/group/school leader?
As educators our feelings are always connected to what is happening around us-some things we react to are visible, others invisible. We catch our students’ and colleagues’ feelings and feel all the feelings they feel. This is part of “emotional contagion”. Knowing the source of our feelings helps us understand what is going on in our classes/groups/schools.
Discover how the feelings that are prompting you to consider leaving the profession can be “recycled” and used constructively in your work with students, colleagues and parents. These feelings can be the springboard for progressive communication rather than for despair. They can move class, group and school dynamics forward so that you can leave at the end of the day feeling satisfied with what you have accomplished.
Redefine your role as educator
Discover how working with a class as a group helps you achieve your academic objectives and contribute to the social and emotional growth of your students.
Change your perspective on the role of the educator to include “classroom group leader”. Transform your interactions with your students and staff and achieve your academic objectives while strengthening the student-teacher, student-student and administrator-staff, student and parent relationships.
Discover how learning and teaching are cognitive, social and emotional…concurrently and at all times.
Recognize that a class is a group
Students come to school unprepared for the demands of group living, yet most of their school day is spent in groups: in the classroom, lunchroom, gymnasium, auditorium, school yard. School life and learning do not take place in isolation from feelings about subject matter, feelings about peers and feelings about teachers and other adults in the school community. Research shows that attention to the social and emotional dynamics in the classroom frees energies for academic endeavors.