Educator In-Services

Parenting Perspectives’ teacher in-services are presented in an informative, inspiring and interactive style that empowers educators to create caring classroom communities where the potential of each student is acknowledged and nurtured.

Our team-teaching approach offers demonstrations that bring humor and insight to everyday classroom struggles and show teachers effective teaching tools in action. Our in-services are designed to ease the stress of teaching, increase teacher’s confidence and expand strategies for dealing with difficult students and challenging situations. All strategies promote strengthening teacher-student connections, fostering the love of learning, and nurturing resilience, responsibility and self-esteem in each student. In-services are:

  • Appropriate for teachers who work with students in pre-school and elementary school. We will tailor the presentation for the specific audience.
  • Designed for 90 minutes, half-day or full-day. We can customize the length to meet your needs.

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Nurturing Children’s Potential: Creating a Conscious Classroom

This workshop is designed to help teachers reconnect with their inner vision and mission and allow them to more clearly see the unique temperament and talents within each of their students. This powerful and insightful in-service is presented in a fun and interactive manner that will help teachers:

  • Adopt a teaching style in which all students feel liked, valued and a sense of belonging.
  • Set classroom limits and make them stick.
  • Learn to identify, understand and work with all different temperament traits in children.
  • Learn strategies for building a positive relationship with difficult children and reduce challenging behavior.
  • Create a climate of respect, care and acceptance in the classroom.
  • Avoid and redirect power struggles.
  • Identify the stressors and behaviors that push their buttons so that they can respond to their students instead of react.
  • Acquire a list of effective positive discipline interventions and logical consequences that that teach children to take responsibility for their actions and improve future behavior.

Promoting Parent Teacher Communication: Working Together to Build Skills in Our Children

Research shows that the greatest challenge today’s teachers face is managing parents. The stress of dealing with parents even exceeds the challenges of classroom discipline and the pressures of standardized testing. Research also shows that parental involvement in education is critical to children’s success. This means that forming strong parent–teacher relationships is essential. So, how can teachers balance the seemingly inherent conflicts of working with parents? This engaging and interactive workshop helps teachers develop the skills and strategies they need to partner with and work effectively with parents--even those who are difficult. Teachers will learn:

  • To appreciate the emotional reasons that lie behind parent’s difficult behavior
  • Strategies for proactively building positive relationships with parents
  • Strategies for effectively dealing with difficult parents including:
    • Chronic complaining/demanding/intrusive parents
    • Rescuing / helicopter parents
    • Abusive/ bullying parents
    • Powerful / undermining parents
    • Emotional parents
  • A three-step plan for handling parent complaints
  • Tips for facilitating effective parent–teacher conferences
  • Strategies for delivering bad news to a parent without alienating them
  • Skills for remaining confident with challenging parents

Strategies for Addressing Unwanted Behavior in the Classroom

Unwanted behavior in the classroom interferes with student’s learning, morale and focus. It impacts teachers by demanding their attention and shifting the focus away from students who are eager to learn. This workshop helps teachers understand, prevent and effectively deal with challenging behavior. We will provide practical tips and creative approaches aimed at helping teachers effectively manage the unwanted behavior in their classroom. This fun and interactive workshops shows educators how to:

  • Understand the reasons for misbehavior 
  • Eliminate power struggles
  • Encourage students to take responsibility for their actions
  • Discipline effectively
  • Minimize battles, tantrums and tears
  • Increase connection and cooperation
  • Set limits in 3 easy steps
  • Utilize logical consequences effectively
  • Feel calmer, more confident and joyful being a teacher

Understanding Temperament: A Tool for Connecting With and Teaching Children

Temperament is one of the most misunderstood and underrated influences on children’s behavior. Temperament explains how children behave not why they behave the way they do. A child’s temperament manifests in the classroom in a variety of ways. For instance, the child who constantly needs to move, the child who stresses when the schedule suddenly changes, the child who is highly sensitive to noise or the busyness in the room, the child who has not mastered transition or separation. When children fall outside the norm, it is not only stressful for the child, but it can be stressful for teacher as well. When temperament is not understood or respected, it creates internal conflict for the child that can manifest in low self-esteem and disruptive behavior. Yes! It matters how we nurture nature. Numerous practical tools will be offered. This interactive workshop helps teachers:

  • Identify and assess characteristics of the 10 temperament traits
  • Assess their own temperament to develop awareness for how it interfaces with the temperament of their students
  • Reduce conflict and misbehavior in the classroom by applying strategies that nurture the challenging aspects of students’ temperament.