Is your career as an educator happy, fulling and stress free?

Is your school achieving its academic goals?
Are you struggling to climb out of Program Improvement?

An excellent educator is not only an expert in the curriculum and how to effectively teach it but must also be equally competent in classroom management and discipline.

Time To Teach trainings consists of Five Core Components:

1. Self-Control Strategies
2. Classroom Design Techniques
3. Teaching to Appropriate Behaviors
4.  Accurate and Timely Consequences
5.  Student Teacher Relationships
   1.  Self-Control Strategies--For the Teacher

• Learning that calmness is contagious and silence are extremely powerful strategies
• Dealing with challenges on student time
• Personal space awareness
• Avoiding power struggles
• Diffusing challenge

       2.  Classroom Design Techniques

• Desk arrangements
• Ecological revisions
• color
• scent
• lighting
• music

       3. Teaching Appropriate Behaviors

•  Teaching to classroom rules

• Teaching to classroom routines 
• Teaching to common (school wide) or shared area expectations
• Teaching behaviors using the I do-we do-you do method

    4.  Accurate and Timely Consequences

• Refocus™ ~ eliminating 90% of classroom challenges
• Avoiding multiple warnings and repeated requests
• Using prompts: start-up and shut-down.

    5. Student Teacher Relationships

• Connecting with kids
• Unconditional Positive Regard (UPR)
• Turning challenging students into allies

Our outstanding system is designed for any grade level and student profile. The approach is  sensible, respectful, and powerful and will forever improve your classroom and give you more Time To Teach.

    Time To Teach supports PBIS, RTI, & PCL's

Are inappropriate student behaviors keeping you from teaching? 

• Johnny tapping his pencil and humming.
  
• Carrington talking to her neighbors who are trying to pay attention.
  
• Jason walking around while you're teaching.
• Regina shouting out answers.
• Monique putting on make-up.
• Craig speaking rudely and laughing at classmates

Classroom management was rated as the most important variable to building and sustaining a high achieving schools. Classroom management (or lack of) is also the number one reason why educators are leaving the profession.

In a perfect world, students would come to school ready and willing to behave perfectly, listen intently and learn all the knowledge, skills, strategies, and wisdom they will need in order to lead happy, productive, fulfilling lives.

By addressing misbehavior early, consistently and calmly, you can eliminate multiple requests, and repeated warnings.     Research has found  that 5 to 9 hours per week are lost in the classroom when teachers have to deal with low level behavior.  That’s 200 to 360 hours of  time lost each year on correcting inappropriate behavior, with repeated warnings and multiple requests.

Time To Teach training will show you how to eliminate:

1. Threats whether empty or real.  Threats create a negative feeling and cast the teacher in the role of threatener and punisher.
2. The use repeated warnings, and multiple requests,  and unproductive conversations or exchanges that often lead to the student or teacher or both doing or saying something regrettable.
3. Cumbersome bookkeeping systems designed to track misbehaviors and used to issue rewards and or punishments.   Teachers spend countless hours conferring and documenting.
   
4. Frequent office referrals for low level behaviors. The teacher gives his power to the administration when sending students to the office.Administrators become frustrated because of having to spend valuable time dealing with minor infractions instead of matters of school improvement. 
   
5. Punishing yourself  when you punish students by keeping them in at recess, lunch or after school detention.
   
6. Arguments with students when you take the "debate bait.."
   
7. No-win confrontations resulting from power struggles that can get very ugly very fast.  They are frustrating as well as job threatening.
   
8. Wasted time on interactions like repeated warnings, multiple requests, confrontations, arguments, referral writing, conferencing, and documenting.  Our training will minimize the amount of instructional time devoted to discipline.
   

Our Beliefs

Time To Teach is based on 16 core beliefs:
1.  Times have changed
2.  Teachers are doing an incredible job
3.  ”Kids don’t care how much you know until they know how much       you care.”   Dr. Madeline Hunter
4.  Good discipline is a matter of good timing
5.  Conflict is an essential part of growing up
6.  Parenting affects behavior
7.  We cannot use poor parenting as an excuse for not teaching
8.  Problem behavior can entrap us
9.  Curriculum comes first, but discipline does, too!
10. Self-esteem matters
11. Students do not necessarily know how to behave
12. Classroom rules and routines need to be systematically taught
13. Teaching succeeds where punishment fails
14. We need an effective consequence for low-level misbehavior
15. An effective discipline program teaches responsible behavior
16. We can make a difference to every child

History of Time To Teach

Time To Teach was originally influenced over 40 years ago with the help and guidance of Dr. Madeline Hunter and John Wooden, both of UCLA. (yes, that’s right, Coach Wooden!) 

Under the leadership of Rick Dahlgren, CEO, The Center For Teacher Effectiveness, publisher of Time To Teach, continues the work of Wooden and Hunter in collaboration with leading educators, researchers and master teachers all around the United States.

We are rapidly becoming the leading provider of teacher education, training and staff development in the United States, Canada and recently in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.  For the last decade, we have been producing and sponsoring high quality, in-depth training programs especially designed for K-12 education professionals.

Our seminars are highly useful and very entertaining. Participants leave with a comprehensive Resource Manual filled with teacher lesson plans, ideas, and easy-to-implement strategies! Finally, our training is not only effective, it is also a chance to interact, network and have fun with other teaching professionals. It is guaranteed to be the best professional development experience that you will have in your career.