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Originally Aired: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Do you struggle with ways to motivate your students? Do you find it difficult to manage behavior in your classroom? Learn how to help your students motivate themselves and improve your classroom management skills!
In this live webinar, Larry Ferlazzo will share his strategies for cultivating independent learners through engaging lessons that respect your students’ interests. Participants will learn specific student motivation strategies and classroom management techniques including how to:
- Build relationships with students
- Learn students’ interests, and connect relevant interests to lessons
- Emphasize what students can do, not what they can’t do
- (Avoid) calling parents
- Encourage intrinsic motivation that can lead to increased higher order thinking skills
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In addition, participants will leave with student motivation lession plans on topics such as the value of sleep and goal-setting.
Who Should Attend
Teachers (grades 6-12), administrators, and instructional leaders seeking to help students become more independent learners by capitalizing on their personal, intrinsic motivators
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About Larry Ferlazzo
Larry Ferlazzo teaches English and Social Studies at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California. He writes a popular education blog and has won numerous awards, including the Leadership For A Changing World Award from the Ford Foundation. He also was the Grand Prize Winner of the International Reading Association Award for Technology and Reading and was given The Education Partnership Award by the College of Education at California State University, Sacramento.
Larry’s articles on education issues appear regularly in the Washington Post, Teacher Magazine and The Huffington Post. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Educational Leadership, Social Policy, and Language Magazine. In addition, Larry writes a teacher advice column for Education Week Teacher.
As a teacher and the author of Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers to Classroom Challenges, he seeks to develop the critical attributes of self motivation, personal responsibility, and perseverance in his students while challenging their thinking through rigorous instruction.