WORKSHOPS
Leadership & Management
- The difference between leadership and management.
- Leadership responsibilities and tasks.
- Management responsibilities and tasks.
Time & Task Management
- Identifying goals, priorities and tasks.
- Scheduling and allocating time.
- Managing time wasters.
- Project management.
- Delegation and follow-up.
- Evaluating personal productivity.
Good Teaching & Good Learning
- Priorities in terms of teaching and learning.
- Defining the learning environment.
- Change strategies.
- Managing the academic day.
- Academic performance indicators.
- Monitoring academic performance.
- Reporting on academic performance.
Involvement of Parents/Guardians at School
- People management principles.
- Formal and informal parent / guardian support structures.
- Communicating with parents / guardians.
- Parents and disciplinary issues.
Is It Time To Make A Change?
- Positive thoughts for when life presents you with a new direction.
- How to accept the change.
- How to deal with the change.
Golden Rules For Living In This Crazy, Mixed-Up World
- Know who you are and what you are doing in this world.
- Know what you want from life.
- Know what you want to contribute to life.
- View your life as a beautiful gift.
- The need for a code of ethics.
- Get involved and make our world a better place.
The Power of Self-Esteem
- Recognise the problem.
- Discover the secret ingredient to your self-esteem and to fulfil your life’s dreams.
- Create and realise your dreams.
- Positive attitude.
- The gift of giving.
- Become the best you can be.
The Basics of Success
- Keys to achieving your greatest potential.
- Achieving success is not all that complicated.
- Success attitudes, Success actions, Success beliefs and Success philosophies.
- Characteristics of successful people.
- What is success not.
- Journey of success.
When Adults Change, The Behaviour of Children Can Change
- Visible Consistency, Visible Kindness
- The Counter-Intuitive Classroom
- Deliberate botheredness
- Certainty in adult behaviour
- Classroom routines
- Flipping the script
- Restore, Redraw, Repair
- Some children follow rules; Some children follow people
- The 30 day magic!
How To Keep Motivated In Th Teaching Profession
- Feeling burned out
- Re-visiting the reasons for becoming a teacher
- Tips to become a motivated teacher again
- Tips to stay motivated as a teacher
- How leaders can keep teachers motivated during difficult times
- How to keep motivated right until the end of the term
- Self – motivation
Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do
- Putting problems into perspective
- Principles for managing problems positively
- Take charge and take control
- Possibility thinking
- Have faith to move your mountain
- The power that pulls everything together successfully
- Beginning is half done
- Alphabet for action
Partnering With Parents For Student Success
- Best practices for effectively communicating with parents
- Techniques for involving parents in their children’s education
- Ways to promote meaningful parent partnerships
Teacher Well Being
- Why are we talking about teacher wellbeing now?
- What is wellbeing?
- Teacher workload and stress
- Time to be mindful
- Spiritual wellbeing
- Physical wellbeing
- Sustainable solutions for improved teacher wellbeing
- Leaders can support teacher’s wellbeing
Classroom Management
- What is classroom management
- Why is classroom management important
- Types of classroom management
- Principles of outstanding classroom management
- Proactive classroom management tips
- Classroom management strategies and techniques
Importance Of School Structure
- Structure required in schools to function effectively and efficiently
- Providing structure – Preventing problems
- Strategies for Providing Structure in the Classroom
- The Structure of Effective One-to-One Support Systems for Teachers
- Structure in curriculum builds lifelong skills
- Structure to Promote Student Engagement
Teacher Professionalism In This Decade
- Teacher professionalisation defined.
- Signs of Professionalism in a Teacher
- The critical elements of attitude, behaviour and communication
- Professional Teaching Standards
- Treating the Pursuit of Excellence as a Daily Habit
- The Importance of Maintaining Professionalism in Schools
Supporting School Leaders In Tough Times
- Preparing school leaders for tough times
- How to support school leadership in tough times
- Recommendations for school leadership support
- Sources and Forms of leadership support
Appreciation Communication In the Work Place
- Foundations of appreciation communication
- Understanding the return on investment from appreciation communication
- Languages of appreciation
- Applying the concepts to daily life
- The difference between recognition and appreciation
- Overcoming common obstacles
- Motivating by appreciation
- Authentic appreciation
Purpose and Potential
- Holistic Approach
- Do you know your greatest potential?
- Personal Purpose and Potential
- Choose Wisely
- Live in the Present
- Circle of Influence and Credibility
Make Your Signature Stand For Who You Are
- Is your signature in demand?
- What does your signature mean in the teaching fraternity?
- Teaching personality and Performance
- Own Up
- Show Up
- Sign Up
- Achieving your Potential
The Consequences Of Our Choices, And How It Affects Our Teaching
- Gratitude
- Our environment
- Choose the right baggage… or is it luggage
- Wear bulletproof armour
- Our attitude
- Our thinking
- Our behaviour
Classroom Management
- What is classroom?
- Why is classroom management necessary?
- Who is responsible for classroom management?
- How to create a well ordered, happy school
- School Code of Conduct
- School Discipline
- Classroom Code of Conduct
- Classroom Discipline
Relationships In The Staffroom And The Classroom
- An Attitude of Gratitude
- The Impact of the Heart in Relationships
- The Impact of Spirituality in Relationships
- The Impact of Physical Wellbeing and Social Support in Relationships
- Mental Impact in Relationships
- The Relationship Contradiction
- The Essence of Relationships
- Personal Reflection
Learners and Leadership
- Why should a school have leaders?
- Chosen as a Learner Leader… what now?
- Personality traits of school leaders
- Part of a team
- Personality Style
- Skills of a Learner Leader
- Dealing with Conflict as a Leader
- Being a Champion Leader
Principal Centered Leadership
Personal and Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Characteristics of principle-centred leaders
- Primary Greatness
- A break with the past
- Moral compassing
- Principle-centred power
- Clearing communication lines
- Making champions of your children
Managerial and Organisational Development
- Abundance managers
- Chronic problems
- Shifting your management paradigm
- Conditions of empowerment
- Managing expectations
- Involving people in the problem
- Total quality leadership
- Corporate constitutions
- Universal mission statement
How To Resolve Conflicts In A School
- No school is totally conflict-free.
- Conflict happens within every group and between groups of children, parents
and staff. - Yet quality schools manage to deal with conflict in ways that usually have
peaceful outcomes. - The workshop compares constructive vs destructive behaviour patterns in
responding to conflict. - Practical guidelines on constructive conflict resolution skills are discussed.
Barriers To Learning
- Understanding Inclusion and Inclusive Education
- Goals of Inclusive Education
- Stages of School Inclusivity
- Characteristics of Successful Inclusive Schools
- Lessons from Inclusive Classrooms
- Inclusive Classroom Communities
- Composition and Purpose of the School Based Support Team
- Stressors in children’s lives
- Overcoming Barriers to Teaching, Learning and Assessment
- Behavioural and Emotional Barriers
- Co-operative Learning
Living a Life of Values
- Who are you… in the eyes of the world?
- Meaning of Values
- Reflection on Values
- You and Your Values
- Common Values
- Living Values
- Imagine Great People