Teacher Workshops

Margot Enterprises provides workshops for teachers. All of the workshops are written and lead by New York State certified teachers that have experience in the classroom. They use their education, experience, and knowledge to help teachers to grow and improve their own skills. We are a New York State approved CTLE sponsor.

All of the workshops can be customized to meet the needs of an individual school or district. We also have educational consultants that can work with the school to evaluate the areas of weakness to help select the appropriate workshops.

Call Margot Enterprises today to see how we can help you and your school improve the learning environment.

Brain-Compatible Learning

The teachers will learn how the brain works and how people learn. They will learn strategies to help their students improve their learning in school. Teachers will also learn what activities and actions can hurt student’s learning.

Introduction to Brain-Compatible Learning (3 CTLE hours)

One of the main goals of teaching is for students to both learn and retain the content. Many teachers teach the material to the students, however, they might miss the connections among teaching, learning, and memory. Students must be able to remember what they are taught, in order to be able to use the information. This workshop will discuss how memories are formed and strategies to use to help students remember information.
Topics include:

The Brain
The Frontal Lobe
Neurons and Learning
Emotions
Rewards
Attention and Focusing
Q&A
Breakout sessions to discuss and share ideas

Memory

Memory and Learning (3 CTLE Hours)

A main goal of teaching is for the students to learn the content. Many teachers teach the material to the students. However, they might miss the connection between, teaching, learning, and memory. The students must remember what they are being taught to be able to remember it. The workshop will discuss how memories are formed and strategies to help the students be able to remember the information. Topics include:

What is memory?
How are memories formed?
How can we improve memory?
Sample Classroom Activities
Q & A
Breakout sessions to discuss and share ideas

Stress and Learning

Stress and Learning (1 CTLE hour)

Everyone knows that stress impacts learning, but stress has positive and negative impacts on learning. The workshop will discuss the positive and negative impacts of stress on learning and memory. The workshop will also include strategies to decrease stress for the students. It will also include a guided meditation and breathing exercise as a way to decrease stress. Topics include:

What is stress?
How does stress impact learning?
What are some strategies to destress?
Q&A
Breakout sessions to discuss and share ideas

Learned Helplessness in Students (1 CTLE hour)

Learned Helplessness can impact students and make it more difficult for them to learn and succeed in school. By learning how to identify learned helplessness, teachers can create a plan to help students to overcome it. Topics include:

What is learned helplessness?
Why is learned helplessness a problem?
How does it impact students?
What does it look like in students?
What can we do to help them?
How to Overcome Learned Helplessness
Reframing
Q&A
Breakout sessions to discuss and share ideas

Reflection

Reflection and How it Improves Learning (3 CTLE Hours)

Reflection is an important part of learning and meta-cognition. As students improve reflection skills, it will help them to be able to monitor their own learning. The workshop will help teachers learn different ways to help students learn to improve their ability to reflect on their own learning. This workshop will be interactive and you can ask questions. Topics include:

What is meta-cognition?
Types of reflection
How to build reflection into a lesson?
The impact on learning
Q&A
Breakout sessions to discuss and share ideas

Mindset

The teachers will learn about the Growth Mindset and the False Growth Mindset. The teachers will learn strategies that they can use to help their students to develop a growth mindset.

Understanding the Growth Mindset (1 CTLE Hour)

The participants will learn about the Growth Mindset and the False Growth Mindset. They will learn strategies that they can use to help develop a growth mindset throughout the school or tutoring center. This will include strategies to help teachers, tutors, students, and parents. Participants will also be provided with different activities that they can use with the students to help them improve their mindset to improve their overall success. This workshop will be interactive and you will be able to ask questions. Topics include:

Fixed Mindset
Growth Mindset
Classroom Culture
False Growth Mindset
Q&A
Breakout sessions to share ideas and suggestions

Grit

The teachers will learn about Grit and how it impacts students. The teachers will learn strategies that they can use to help their students to improve their grit.

Does Grit Make A Difference for Students? (1 CTLE Hour)

Some students can have every opportunity to succeed and still struggle. Other students can succeed when they have everything working against them. Learn about Grit and how it impacts students in school. Can Grit impact a student? How much of an impact can it have? How can you help students to grow their grit? This workshop will be interactive and you can ask questions. Topics include:

What is grit?
How does grit impact students?
How to improve grit?
Q&A
Breakout sessions to share ideas and strategies

Distance Learning

How to Improve Your Online Presentation Skills (1 CTLE Hour)

Are you teaching more lessons online? Do you want to improve your online presenting skills? Learn how to improve your online presentation and your online presenting skills. This workshop will be interactive and will demonstrate a variety of strategies that you can incorporate into your own presentations. Topics include:

Setting up your area.
Developing your presentation.
Student engagement.
Additional tips and tricks.
Zoom etiquette
Q&A
Breakout sessions to share ideas

Improve Your Questioning Strategies (3 CTLE Hours)

Learn how to ask more in depth questions to check for understanding. Learn about different types of assignments that can be given online to students. Make your online classroom more interesting and engaging for the students. This workshop will be interactive and you can ask questions. Topics will include:

Why do we ask students questions?
Types of Questions
Test Taking Strategies
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Webb’s Depth of Knowledge
Creating Questions
Improving Questions
Q&A
Breakout sessions to share ideas

Methods to Improve Interaction for Online Learning (3 CTLE Hours)

Learn about different activities, assignments, and projects that the students can complete online. Learn about ways to keep the students engaged in video lectures, online meetings, and online assignments. This workshop will be interactive and you can ask questions.

Managing Student Behaviors Virtually (3 CTLE Hours)

It can be a struggle to manage the behaviors of students virtually while trying to teach an online or hybrid class. Many of the standard in classroom behavior management techniques need to be changed or cannot be used at all. Topics include:

Virtual strategies to keep the class engaged to minimize behavioral problems
Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, and consequences that can be used in a virtual setting
How to adjust behavior plans to a virtual setting
Behavior plans that can be followed virtually
Classroom management strategies for the virtual classroom
Zoom etiquette information that can be shared with students
Q&A
Breakout sessions to discuss and share ideas

Teacher In-Service

Brain-Compatible Learning (15 CTLE Hours)

This will include the brain-compatible learning workshop, the memory workshop, the reflection workshop, and activities to write lesson plans using a brain-compatible learning process.

Effective Testing Strategies (15 CTLE Hours)

This includes the brain-compatible learning workshop and activities to write different types of assessments using a brain-compatible learning process.

Effective Homework Strategies (15 CTLE Hours)

This includes the brain-compatible learning workshop and activities to write different types of homework assignments using a brain-compatible learning process.

Schedule a workshop for your school today.