Educator Programs
by Chick Moorman

Celebrate the Spirit Whisperers : Keynote Address

This session will leave your teachers feeling proud to be a professional educator. It will celebrate the Spirit Whisperer energy that exists within every person working with young people today.

This keynote will rejuvenate your staff. It will show them a vision of an educational system that doesn’t perceive failure, that grant dignity without it needing to be earned, that holds the student in a state of grace even as appropriate consequences are implemented.

Chick will help your teachers lift their eyes, their hearts, and their own spirits to see and remember again what is possible when the main purpose of education becomes the creation of who we are and what we choose to be.

Achievement Motivation and Behavior Management: The Teacher Talk System

Teachers will learn how to decrease discipline problems and increase motivation for learning. This seminar offers a skill-based approach to using effective Teacher talk that will encourage self-responsible behaviors, self-motivation, and increased effort on the part of students.

Teachers will learn the verbal skills necessary to:

• Get reinforcement theory working in their classrooms…..to encourage positive behaviors.
• Eliminate negative behaviors….giving them more time for teaching.
• Communicate anger an irritation skillfully…..so as not to wound the spirit.
• Give descriptive corrective feedback….to move students forward.
• Praise in constructive ways….so that students develop an internal standard.
• Use attribute awareness….to increase student responsibility for academic achievement.

Teaching Respect and Responsibility

Do you notice disrespectful, unself-responsible behaviors in students at your school? Are you hearing an increase in put-downs, sarcastic remarks, and rude suggestions? Have you seen students acting, talking, and thinking like victims, without taking responsibility for their own behavior?

If so, then this seminar is for you!

Respect and Responsibility don’t just happen. Not by luck, magic, or because you put a few character education posters in the hall and held an assembly to pass out awards to students of the month. Respect and Responsibility only occur in schools where the entire staff sets out to create them with intentionality, skills and a unified attitude.

At this seminar, your staff will learn to create a classroom atmosphere that models and invites Respect and Responsibility. Included are techniques for defining, teaching and debriefing respect issues so that students internalize the concepts. Skills to encourage self-responsibility and respond effectively to counter-productive behaviors are also included to help teachers react confidently.

This workshop is skill-based, practical, and can be put to use immediately to get your students choosing responsible, respectful behaviors.

Enhancing Student Self-Esteem

This seminar is specifically designed to help educators diagnose and prescribe interventions for students who demonstrate evidence of low self-esteem in any of the four areas: Connectiveness, Uniqueness, Personal Power, and Mental Models. Participants will be given quick and accurate tools to help in their diagnosis, helpful techniques to relates to students with specific weaknesses, and proven strategies to combat those weaknesses.

Participants will learn:

• to recognize students who suffer form one of the conditions of low self-esteem…so that through accurate diagnosis they can prescribe appropriate interventions.
• strategies for relating to students who are low in each area…so that the student/teacher bond remains strong while self-esteem issues are addressed.
• activities to help students develop high self-esteem in all four areas…to remove the blocks to learning and effective living.

Motivating the Unmotivated

Underachieving students often fail to turn in assignments. The fail to attend class regularly, fail to build positive relationships, and fail to steer clear of self-defeating behaviors. Underachievers fail to find meaning in school work, fail to ask for help, and fail to see the connection between effort, success, and failure.

Failure hurts. Failure encourages impulses to escape, attack, cheat, withdraw, distract, and give up.

• Learn to break the cycle of failure in you underachieving students...so they can improve their performance and maximize their potential.
• Learn to put attribute theory into practice in your classroom…so that underachievers understand the relationship between their behavior and their performance.
• Help underachievers give up the victim stance and assume more responsibility over their school lives…so you can spend less time motivating and more time teaching.
• Help underachievers develop an “I can” stance towards life so that can think, act, and be more successful.
• Dramatically decrease the number of students who choose to underachieve by learning how to manage your classroom and your own mind to positively impact your “at risk” students.