Professional+Development

Below are training's and professional development workshops that I have completed.


 * During a KDP professional workshop, I attended three seminars: Classroom Management, Motivating the Unmotivated, and First Year Teacher (Elementary Education). During these workshops I learned a few things. **


 * Classroom Management**
 * Physical design, rules and routines, relationships and community, and engaging instruction are all aspects of a classroom that should prevent misbehavior and having to discipline students.
 * How to teach students the difference between harmful and minor situations to avoid tattling.
 * Tattle Box: students write their complaints and put it in the tattle box to be read in private by the teacher at the end of each day. This avoids chronic tattling and classroom interruptions.
 * Various behavior modification methods including charts and collection jars.


 * Motivating the unmotivated**
 * This seminar focussed mainly on external reward systems, rather than focusing on how to motivate a student intrinsically with positive affirmations.


 * First Year Teacher (Elementary Education)**
 * I was given very helpful interest inventories for new students
 * I learned new tips for regaining students attention, including phrase and response such as "a hush came over the room", response: "hussshhhh"
 * A list of classroom routines pointed out some things I was not aware of, like: ways to take attendance while accomplishing another goal, such as taking lunch orders or status of the class; and where to put things like the pencil sharpener, homework chart, and paper bins.

**In my current employment, I am required to complete professional developments, be it online training or a day of in-person faculty training. As of today, I have accumulated more than 30 hours of development training. Here are just some of the things I have learned about:**


 * Embracing nature in the classroom
 * Taking advantage of one-on-one time with every student
 * Incorporating every subject and all of the senses in lesson planning
 * Classroom management
 * Parent partnerships and how to approach parents about their child
 * How to avoid/ correct behavioral issues
 * Making every second count; for example, not wasting time waiting for every one to put their jackets on and line up when you can play a quick mental game with them (math, for example)
 * Caring for infants, toddlers, pre-K, and school age kids
 * Food safety

In addition to all of the above trainings, I am certified to perform CPR on infants, children, and adults.