Time to Teach

“Finally! A Program that is Truly a Philosophy with Application Rooted in Reality.”

The most unchallenged assumption in school settings today is that kids come to school ready and willing to learn.  Generations of kids are coming to school un-socialized and without direction.

We offer a strategy packed course that is presented to groups of as few as 10, and up to 2,000 educators.  More than one decade ago our founder, Rick Dahlgren, established the Center for Teacher Effectiveness which produces, promotes, and shares highly effective and practical classroom management strategies and school discipline ideas.

This research-based approach to classroom management is truly phenomenal!
Schools, districts, and teachers that undergo the Center's nationally acclaimed training routinely report a surge in: teacher job satisfaction; student on-task time; test scores; parent and community involvement and support and on and on. . .

For example, one of the Center's trainings was so successful for an inner-city school in Denver, that Denver Public Schools had us train for all of their schools! One of the original pilot schools won an award from the Governor for the state of Colorado.

Who Should Attend

General education teachers K through 12, special education teachers, principals, counselors, psychologists, at-risk coordinators, title 1 coordinators, special education directors, staff development directors, para-professionals, educational assistants, administrators, curriculum directors, school board members, parents.

All educators who want a program that significantly reduces classroom / school discipline problems by:

• Teaching self-discipline, responsibility,
• Cooperation, and problem-solving skills
• Believe that good behavior is as important as academics in helping students be successful in work, in the community, and in relationships
• Know that non-punitive methods work best for long-range positive results with students-and who want a large toolbox of non-punitive methods
• Want classrooms where students demonstrate mutual respect.
• Especially those educators who want to:
• Increase student achievement
• Create positive classroom behavior
• Intervene effectively when students misbehave
• Develop a classroom climate and school culture based on
• Caring, clear limits, consistency, and respect
• Motivate apathetic, reluctant learners, and potential dropouts
• Build a foundation for the prevention of violence
• Improve home, school, and community collaboration
• Promote character education and the development of good citizenship

Why Attend?

• You are guaranteed to learn how to:
• Eliminate repeated warnings & multiple requests in a positive fashion
• Teach the disrespectful to be respectful
• Teach the unmotivated to be motivated
• Teach the irresponsible to be responsible
• Be proactive rather than reactive
• Arrange any classroom for maximum achievement
• Avoid power struggles
• Capture student attention
• Refocus™ the reluctant learner
• Use a myriad of powerful prompting techniques
• Spend quality time with ALL students in your classroom

College Credit

This course is offered for college credit through Chapman University.
Chapman University partners with a number of national professional development organizations that offer seminars and workshops nationwide. Participants that attend specified workshops may earn credit by completing a follow-up practicum, based on the content of the workshop.

Details for direct enrollment and Registration Forms for Chapman University will be available at the seminar.  Detailed information can by found at the Chapman University Web Site.

CEU's

Participants attending Center For Teacher Effectiveness seminars may also have the opportunity to earn state-approved continuing education units.

Visit the Seminar Schedules Page and choose your state for additional information about continuing education units (if any).

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Center For Teacher Effectiveness

“Finally!  A Program that is Truly a Philosophy with Application Rooted in Reality.”

One-Day Course Outline

Presented by:
Deborah Faithrose, Certified Trainer

8:00 - 8:30 - Registration
8:35 - 10:00 - Time to Teach!  - Implementing & Maintaining A Positive School Climate
Five Core Beliefs and How They Effect Classroom Management

• Caring is Key
• Conflict Is An Essential Part of Growing Up
• Good Behavior Must Be Systematically Taught
• Behavior Can Be Changed
• Good Discipline Is Only A Matter of Good Timing

Self Control

• Remaining Calm & Responding Right!
• "Push Asides" vs. "Walk-aways"
• Personal Space
• Avoiding Power Struggles (a normal part of development)
• Diffusers

Classroom Arrangement

• A Brief Look at Options (Traditional & Non-traditional)
• Classroom Ecological Analysis

10:00 - 10:15 - Break
10:15 - 11:45 - Time to Teach!
Effective Classroom Management - Essential Elements

• Teaching Expectations
• Looking for Performance
• Consequential Behavior
• Unconditional Positive Regard

REFOCUS™ - A lesson in how to reactivate troublesome students

• Using Prompts
• Startup Requests
• Begin Again Requests
• Shut Down Requests

11:45 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 - Time to Teach!
What If's

• How to handle unexpected behaviors

2:00 - 2:10 - Break
2:10 - 3:45 - Time to Teach!
Unconditional Positive Regard

• Contingent Interaction
• Non-contingent Interaction
• Communication
• Interest
• Involvement

3:45 - Wrap Up & Adjourn

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Center For Teacher Effectiveness

“Finally!  A Program that is Truly a Philosophy with Application Rooted in Reality.”

Day-Two Course Outline

Optional Day-Two to Enhance Your One-Day Seminar for Your School or District

Presented by:
Deborah Faithrose, Certified Trainer

8:00 - 8:30 - Registration
8:35 - 10:00 - Time to Teach!
An In-depth Look at Teaching Expected Behaviors

• Teach To's - What Are They
• The Rationale for Teach To's
• Rules & Routines
• Identifying Areas of Need

Suggested Framework for Teach To's

• Goals
• Rationale
• Procedure
• Demonstration of Range of Behaviors

10:00 - 10:15 - Break
10:15 - 11:45 - Time to Teach!
A Guide for Developing Classroom Teach To's

• Three questions that must guide the development of classroom routines
• A review of 100 sample Teach To's
• Teach To Template & How to use it

Teach To's Rubric: Why Use It?

• The Teach To's Rubric
• Guiding Improvement
• Teacher & Student Improvement Questions

11:45 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 - Time to Teach!
Absolutes? -- Absolutely!!!

• Absolutes are critical behaviors
• When are absolutes worth fighting?
• How many absolutes do we need?
• Who should set the absolutes for a building?
• The power of absolutes

2:00 - 2:10 - Break
2:10 - 3:45 - Time to Teach!
Identifying Absolutes for Your Building

• Rationale supporting Absolutes
• Developing your team
• Bringing everyone on board

3:45 - Wrap Up & Adjourn

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Course Materials

Resource Handbook (Training Manual)

This CTE produced comprehensive handbook for teachers K-12 shares ideas, strategies, tips, and techniques. They will forever increase your teaching time, student on-task time, and reduce stress for you and your students. We put forth innovative strategies that establish optimal learning environments. You will go way beyond discipline to create a program that will change your students' behavior and they will love it!

250 Teach-To's For Classroom Success

No matter how good your curriculum, pacing guide, scripted program is organized or how prepared you are...all are irrelevant until your students are ready and willing to learn. Nearly three decades ago, Dr. Madeline Hunter and Coach John Wooden, both of UCLA, helped in the initial design of what the Center today calls the Time To Teach program. At the foundation of Time To Teach, is the notion of "teach-to's" - those behaviors and routines teachers must teach every child in order for his or her classroom to run smoothly. Over the past decade, the CTE has put together over 250 pages of classroom- and school-wide "teach to's" that highly effective teachers are using in diverse classroom settings across America, Canada, and abroad.

Time To Teach: Empowerment & Excellence in Every Classroom

Having trained tens of thousands of teachers who teach hundreds of thousands of students, we know that children and adolescents can and will be responsible for their own behavior and for their own learning, but these skills must be taught first. That's why we have been tirelessly promoting it for over twenty-seven years! We were initially guided by Dr. Madeline Hunter and Coach John Wooden, both of UCLA (quite a story). This book focuses on proven strategies for teaching these important skills to students, evaluating their successes, and certainly focuses on the art of delivering effective consequences when all else fails. Special techniques are outlined for preventing discipline problems and dealing effectively with those that do occur.

To schedule “Time To Teach” Training, call Deborah at Faithrose Seminars.
“A Little Faith Can Make a Big Difference”

Contact Information
Dallas TX Phone: 972-620-7673
Fax Number: 972-620-2210
Email: deborah@faithroseseminars.com

The Center For Teacher Effectiveness is rapidly becoming the leading provider of teacher training and staff development for educators in the United States, Canada, and abroad. We teach our innovative and highly effective strategies at seminars, education conferences, in schools and districts. We are helping teachers everywhere to find Time to Teach.

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