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LIFE LAUGHTER AND LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOM

Add more laughter, life and learning to every single lesson you teach. Come, discover and experience games and activities you can apply in your classroom immediately. Increase your influence and authority and watch discipline hassles and student conflictmelt away as you use these exercises to motivate learning and to improve both student-teacher and student-student relationships. Proactively teaching cooperation and communication exercises builds community in the classroom and makes everyone's job a whole lot more fun. Students will be more motivated to learn as they take part in activities that build confidence in their interpersonal skills and increase their ability to work independently, freeing up valuable time you can use to teach more effectively and efficiently. Have fun with the activities, then share and discuss practical ways you can easily adapt and implement these activities to a wide variety of subjects and grade levels.

BUILDING SELF DISCIPLINE, SELF MOTIVATION
AND SELF ESTEEM

Ever wish your students were more motivated, could work more independently and act more responsibly? In this up beat and entertaining session, Maggie will share time-proven ideas and techniques to encourage and motivate even the most discouraged students. Improve your teaching effectiveness dramatically as you employ practical tips on increasing self-esteem and generating a positive learning environment where students can assume responsibility for their own behavior.

BUILDING EMPATHY, SELF DISCIPLINE AND RESILIENCE

Explore a fun and proactive approach to building a healthy classroom community encouraging students to develop self-reliance, empathy, resilience and compassion. Participate in activities you can take back to the classroom to help students develop cooperation, communication and assertiveness skills. This workshop is packed with sound, practical ideas of how you can reduce the incidence of conflict in your classroom, discipline more effectively, and teach students personal responsibility.

ONCE UPON A CLASSROOM; STORIES TO LEARN AND LAUGH BY

Come prepared for action and fun in this workshop. Discover what story telling can do for your classroom:

• Set the stage for fun, suspense and laughter;
• Improve student achievement by expanding creative, imaginative and lateral thinking
• Teach social responsibility, cooperation and communication skills
• Reduce classroom stress and conflict
• “Edutain”, energize and enthuse students

The story we’ll be working with is adaptable to many age levels. We’ll explore ideas to integrate storytelling and follow-up activities into many art, drama, physical education, social studies, CAPP, psychology, and language arts curriculum. Primary and secondary students as well as adults have enjoyed this story.

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CALM AND CENTERED IN THE EYE OF THE STORM

In this highly stressful world of teaching, there are times when chaos threatens to reign in every classroom. With humor and insight, Maggie will share techniques to keep you calm and defuse charged situations with highly emotional students. You’ll receive practical ideas and hands on experience in sidestepping power struggles and employing effective discipline techniques. Enjoy learning quick and easy methods to relieve stress, rejuvenate and renew your sense of well-being. With the power to remain calm, you calm the world around you.

EMBRACING YOUR CREATIVE AND AUTHENTIC SELF

Ignite your students’ creativity by igniting your own! Through laughter, creative movement, freestyle writing, storytelling and art, we’ll enter the optimum learning state – the play zone! Activities are easily adapted to your classroom and you get the added benefit of playing your stress away! Explore how to teach social skills and build cooperation through movement and art, and return to your class with writing and storytelling activities you can use right away. We’ll explore how to quiet the chatterboxes inside our minds, relax and free ourselves to flow from the inside out. Watch your relationships and your influence with your students improve as more of the real you emerges to connect with your students this year. Breathe new vitality and passion into your life, and discover how the Power of Now can keep you centered, productive and happy. You’ll leave this workshop invigorated and rejuvenated with ready to go activities you can use in your classroom Monday morning.

MORE LIFE LAUGHTER AND LEARNING!

Start your year off right with ready to go communication and cooperation activities for your classroom. Experience the community building benefits these activities generate all year round! Activities are designed to integrate all learning styles and build confidence in students’ abilities to relate to others, understand themselves, and make independent and assertive decisions. You’ll have time to share and discuss practical ways you can easily adapt and implement these activities to a wide variety of subjects and grade levels. Come prepared to interact and ha e fun, and add more life laughter and learning to your year ahead!

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DANCING ON THE INSIDE ~
CREATIVE MOVEMENT FOR THE CLASSROOM

Tired of trying to figure out what to do for the dance curriculum? Are you looking for a way to release stress for your self and your students? Dancing on the Inside is movement from the inside out – exploring a range of rhythm and movement that you can use any time to reduce tension and stress in your classroom life, and to help your students integrate body, mind and emotions, refreshing and preparing them for learning.

This dance will invite the child in YOU to come and play – and it’s for everyone: reserved toe tappers, passionate dancers, accomplished athletes and refined couch potatoes. Come prepared to move and have fun!

(Maggie Reigh is an experienced teacher and a passionate dancer.)

 

9 WAYS TO BRING OUT THE BEST IN YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS

Do you find yourself struggling for control over your students when what you really want to do is empower them and yourself? Are you looking for new ways to inspire and motivate your students to achieve their full potential? Do you want to add more humor, sparkle and shine to your classroom life? This workshop will show you how to encourage responsibility and cooperation in your students, build solid and influential relationships with them, and make your classroom a more inviting and fun place to be - for everyone!

Based on Maggie’s new book, 9 Ways to Bring out the Best in You And Your Child

Seminars & presentations for teachers & professionals working with children
Storytelling & presentations for students

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