Programs for Educators

We are pleased to offer a variety of keynotes, seminars, and consulting specifically targeted to the needs of your teaching staff. We customize every presentation & consult based on our conversations with the client.

We offer a variety of solutions to fit your budget and meet your needs. Please contact us today and let us put the right program together for you!

Implementing Co-teaching Models: The HOW of Co-teaching

Best Practices in Co-teaching and Collaboration: the HOW of Implementing the Models

Intended audiences: Principals, Paraprofessionals, General Education Teachers, Co-teaching Teams, Special Education Teachers, English Language Teachers, Special Education Needs (SEN)

Format: Workshop – 45 to 360 minutes (Shorter programs will focus on YOUR specific needs)

This strategy-packed seminar will provide general education teachers, special educators, ELL and other specialists collaborating in the general classroom with two dozen+ specific co-teaching implementations that are practical, easy-to-integrate, and proven successful. The focus is on providing clear examples for collaboration that minimize obstacles such as lack of planning time, content knowledge, or varied teaching styles.

Participants will discover realistic options for taking their co-teaching implementations up a level through data-driven grouping strategies, station teaching and efficient time management. Strategies are specifically designed to maximize the talents and skills of teachers, specialists, and all students in the classroom.

The HOW of Co-teaching and Collaboration for Pre-service Teachers

Intended audiences: Pre-service and Student Teachers, Teacher Trainers, Administrators

Format: Workshop – 45 to 360 minutes (Shorter programs will focus on YOUR specific needs)

This customized, strategy-packed seminar will provide pre-service teachers with co-teaching strategies that are practical, easy-to-integrate, and proven successful. A multitude of ideas will be presented to help educators and students be more productive and successful in the content areas.

Participants will discover realistic options for taking their co-teaching implementations up a level through data-driven grouping strategies, station teaching, and efficient time management. Strategies are specifically targeted to pre-service teachers and their collaborating partners.

Teachers often say, “Show me what it looks like!” This program includes multiple, concrete examples of co-teaching in action and includes unrehearsed video examples of co-teaching in a variety of classroom scenarios.

Graduates of this course are certified to provide specific training on The HOW of Co-teaching on behalf of their school or organization.

Call or email Susan (603-625-6087) today for more information!

Teaching Strategies for Differentiated Learning

Differentiated Instruction: Why Bother?
This keynote is designed to address the objections, concerns, and mind-sets that often challenge successful differentiated instruction or inclusive practices. Focus will be on how inclusive classrooms increase student motivation, grit, and success. The keynote motto is “Good for all, critical for the students with special needs.”

How Can School & Home Develop Motivation and Success for Youth?
Give your students the priceless gifts of empowerment, accountability, and motivation to tackle any learning challenge. Learn practical strategies and implement them in your curriculum tomorrow.

Differentiated Instruction Strategy Blast!

Intended audiences: Principals, Paraprofessionals, General Education Teachers, Co-teaching Teams, Special Education Teachers, English Language Teachers, Special Education Needs (SEN)

Format: Workshop – 45 to 360 minutes (Shorter programs will focus on YOUR specific needs)

This workshop has also been titled “Special Needs in the General Classroom: How Do We Make It Work?” and “Successful Inclusion Strategies and Techniques for Differentiating Curricula to Meet I.E.P. Requirements,” among other things. This program explores the ways that the brain learns and discusses a variety of brain-based, research supported, “implement tomorrow” strategies that will help teachers reach ALL the learners in their classrooms including gifted, English language learners and students with special needs. The strategies and techniques in this program can be used to support your school or district’s differentiation initiatives, common-core implementation, or Response to Intervention requirements. If you want your teachers to realize increased achievement for their students, this program is the first step!

Susan presents a smorgasbord of strategies that are simple, common sense, and effective. Discover how to keep learners engaged, to help students with organization and memorization, increase critical thinking skills, and make learning fun and meaningful. All strategies are based on solid educational theory and current research. Leave with successful strategies that differentiate instruction, and motivate ALL students, especially students with special needs in the general classroom. Gain proven, easy to implement research-based techniques that make teaching more efficient by reducing the need to re-teach, motivating the hard to reach learner and promoting responsiveness to instruction.

Intended audiences: Principals, Paraprofessionals, General Education Teachers, Co-teaching Teams, Special Education Teachers, English Language Teachers, Special Education Needs Special Education Needs (SEN)

Format: Workshop – 360 Minutes

Participants will leave this workshop with realistic strategies to foster memory in the classroom for all learners and to bypass memory difficulties for students with special needs and learning difficulties. We will discuss concrete instructional strategies that assist students with special needs, at-risk learners as well as average test performers in the general classroom while improving short and long term memory. From reading recall and retention to the effects of anxiety on working memory, this session provides teachers with tools that address memory-related issues, allowing them more time to provide rich instruction that reaches all learners, especially students with special education needs.

Strategies are immediately useful and practical. Learn hands-on methods that realistically target student memory deficits and learning challenges. Multiple approaches allow teachers to address a wide range of abilities while maximizing instruction time.

How Can School & Home Develop Motivation and Success for Youth?

Preferred Program Length: 1 1/2 hrs to 2 hours
Target Audience: General classroom teachers, special educators, and parents, or anyone who wants to learn how to motivate youth
Grade-Level Appropriateness: All grade levels

Give your students the priceless gifts of empowerment, accountability, and motivation to tackle any learning challenge. Learn practical strategies today and implement them in your curriculum tomorrow. Gain answers to your questions:

  • How do you motivate the unmotivated?
  • How to empower students to reach their goals?
  • Strategies to promote motivation?
  • How to make homework fun?

Programs for Paraprofessionals

Paraprofessionals And Teachers Working Together in the General Classroom

Intended audiences: Paraprofessionals, General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, and Special Education Needs (SEN)
Format: Workshop – 360 Minutes

This workshop develops an understanding of the potential benefits of collaboration and defines approaches to achieving those benefits. Additionally practical, proven strategies for overcoming common roadblocks to effective collaboration are presented.

Paraprofessionals assigned to support students with disabilities in the general education classroom have one of the most important jobs in schools today. Whether they serve as one-to-one support for specific students or as overall classroom assistants, they have a critical role in making inclusion effective for their students. This strategy-packed seminar will provide paraprofessionals as well as general and special education teachers with practical, easy-to-integrate, proven techniques for making inclusion successful. A wealth of ideas will be presented that will help all of your students be more productive in the content area. The seminar’s focus will be on introducing practical strategies that have been proven successful when working with students with special needs in inclusive or general education classrooms.

  • Gain practical strategies, tools, forms, and tips for defining paraprofessional roles, collecting data, as well as cueing strategies for tests and quizzes, and more!
  • Identify meaningful and effective resources to recognize personality types and determine how to collaborate with opposite & varied personality types
  • Implement proactive ways for paraprofessionals to prevent discipline problems and positive ways to deal with challenging behavior when it occurs
  • Leave with a multitude of proven practical strategies to effectively and efficiently adapt coursework, homework and study assignments to meet IEP, RTI and 504 requirements and increase student academic achievement for all students including students with special education needs.

Exclusively for Administrators

Program Description:
“What Should I See When I Walk-through an Inclusive, Differentiated Classroom?” is a question often asked as schools move toward differentiated and inclusive classrooms. Administrators have a key role in ensuring that students’ learning needs are met. In this dynamic, practical session, you will learn what best-practice, researched based strategies and methods might be used to engage all learners so that students improve test scores and reach their potential.
Session Outline:
Upon successful completion of the program, participants will be able to:

  • Determine what should be observed during a walk-through or observation of an inclusive and/or differentiated classroom.
  • Understand how teachers might implement successful strategies and techniques for differentiating curricula to meet IEP requirements for students with special needs. Minimal theory and maximum practical, easily implemented strategies and techniques will be covered in this program.
  • Learn best-practice, researched based strategies that maximize ALL student performance. Identify key steps that teachers might implement to help students with special needs, students at-risk, gifted students, and the average learner to be successful.
  • Apply practical strategies that make instruction work. Identify and learn how to implement strategies and approaches in the regular classroom that encourage the success of students with special needs without watering down the curriculum.
  • Understand which activities increase retention and success on tests and Quizzes. These activities are quickly and easily prepared, encourage student cooperation and peer support. They are simple and effective strategies to increase student success.
  • Promote success for ALL students. Through concrete examples, learn to identify teaching methods and techniques that increase learning for ALL students.

Instructional strategies I will employ:
Dynamic lecture (never boring), think/pair/share, movement strategies, and interactive discussion techniques are utilized during the presentation. Administrators walk away with modelled strategies that they can actually use.

Program Description:
“How do I implement a viable co-teaching program in my school?” is a question often asked as schools move inclusive classrooms to increase student success in the special education, at-risk, Limited English Proficiency, etc. subgroups. While our schools are excelling in some areas, we aren’t meeting AYP in others. Co-teaching is an option for inclusive schools that can yield positive results IF implemented with fidelity. The role of administration is critical in ensuring that co-teaching works to benefit teachers and students. What does an administrator need to know about co-teaching? How should co-teaching be scheduled? What supports are needed? In this dynamic, practical session, you will learn what works best, what works next, and what doesn’t work in a co-teaching setting.
Session Outline:
Upon successful completion of the program, participants will be able to:

  • Determine the role of administration in successful co-teaching efforts.
  • Understand how teachers might implement co-teaching models when differentiating curricula to meet IEP requirements for students with special needs. Minimal theory and maximum practical and easily implemented strategies and techniques will be covered in this program.
  • Consider scheduling options.
  • Apply practical strategies to balance classroom rosters so they are truly inclusive. Identify which students need a co-taught class and which do not.
  • Understand which scheduling models increase the chances for a successful co-teaching program.

Instructional strategies I will employ:
Dynamic lecture (never boring), think/pair/share, movement strategies, and interactive discussion techniques are utilized during the presentation. Administrators walk away with information that they can use to plan and implement their co-teaching programs.

Program Description:
Susan Fitzell coaching a teacherHow does an administrator lead teachers to implement exemplary teaching and learning practices? What approach motivates and inspires rather than instills fear, resentment and resistance? In this session, you will discover powerful cognitive coaching strategies to enhance your ability to deepen relationships with teachers and inspire growth. Options will be presented for how to meet teachers where they are while providing nurturing support.
Session Outline:
Upon successful completion of the program, participants will be able to:

  • Use data combined with meaningful encouragement to inspire resistant teachers to reinvent themselves in response to your coaching.
  • Identify and learn how to document observations and provide constructive feedback that gets results.
  • Gain an understanding of how to navigate conversations with your staff to enhance communication and willingness to accept change.
  • Focus on effort and willingness to take steps towards progress rather than comparison to others.

Instructional strategies I will employ:
Dynamic lecture (never boring), think/pair/share, movement strategies, and interactive discussion techniques are utilized during the presentation. Administrators walk away with a tool box of effective coaching strategies to nurture and support their teachers.

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    Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP

    Trainer, Speaker, Author, Coach

    603-625-6087

    Aim Hi Educational Programs, LLC.

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    Manchester,
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