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Real Deal Teacher Training
Behavior Management & Instruction that actually works!
Welcome to Michael Abraham's "Real Deal Teaching" program! With over 15 years of teaching experience and expertise in managing classrooms of students with cultures of high social and verbal interaction, Michael has designed a comprehensive training program to equip schools with the skills they need to become exceptional teachers at keeping students on task and staying in the classroom learning. Whether you're looking to enhance the skills of your existing staff or prepare new staff for success, this program is the perfect solution. Learn more about this program and Michael's background below!
Michael Abraham is an accomplished public school teacher and educational consultant with a proven track record of success in improving educational outcomes for students. With over 15 years of teaching experience, Michael has worked with students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, both in the United States and internationally. Michael has led professional development and school-turnaround initiatives in inner-city schools with Minneapolis Public Schools in Minnesota, where he helped reform a high school on the brink of collapse and improve its climate scores to become the best in the district by implementing the same professional development plan for teachers that he is now offering to you at your school! It is our goal to develop in your staff the skills they need to become exceptional educators.
Michael is best known in the field of education for creating a professional development program entitled Engaging Muslim Students in Public Schools, which he has also authored into a book by the same name. This program has helped over 4,000 educators across 17 states and 200 school districts and organizations in the United States, and has been presented at prestigious universities such as Hamline University, Washington University, and Ohio State University. You can see how educators rave about Michael and his training at this link. He has a proven track record of leaving trainees fully satisfied and feeling that what they got was the real deal. He holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, a Masters degree in Education from Hamline University, as well as teaching licenses in Teaching English as a Second Language and Communication Arts. His passion for education, combined with his extensive experience and knowledge, make him an ideal choice schools seeking to enhance the skills of their staff.
You can also learn more about Michael Abraham and his work in public education by watching his appearance on the YouTube channel Blogging Theology:
Real Deal Teaching Program:
This training program is designed to equip staff at schools with classrooms of students with cultures of high social and verbal interaction with effective behavior management and instructional strategies to create a more productive and rigorous learning environment for their students. The program will consist of a 6-hour day of training in August 2023, followed by six subsequent follow-up sessions spaced throughout the school year.
The Real Deal Teaching program is a comprehensive learning continuum in which each part inculcates teacher skills that build upon one another. The program covers a wide range of topics on effective behavior management with an emphasis one effective non-verbal communication, and instructional strategies based on the science of learning . These topics are designed to equip staff with the skills they need to build relationships with students where both respect is mutual and appreciation of the teacher's authority is maintained, thus positioning staff to be effective mentors for students that can impart values of self-discipline and keep them on task. Schools that have their staff trained in these techniques find that students stay in the classroom more and on-task behavior increases, disciplinary referrals and negative phone calls home reduce as well as staff stress and burnout. This program is key to having staff that are auxilary to the classroom to start working pro-actively and positively with students instead of having to run around the building all day managing behavior problems.
Topics covered include...
Objectives and Deliverables:
The Real Deal Teaching program is a comprehensive learning continuum in which each part inculcates teacher skills that build upon one another. The program covers a wide range of topics on effective behavior management with an emphasis one effective non-verbal communication, and instructional strategies based on the science of learning . These topics are designed to equip staff with the skills they need to build relationships with students where both respect is mutual and appreciation of the teacher's authority is maintained, thus positioning staff to be effective mentors for students that can impart values of self-discipline and keep them on task. Schools that have their staff trained in these techniques find that students stay in the classroom more and on-task behavior increases, disciplinary referrals and negative phone calls home reduce as well as staff stress and burnout. This program is key to having staff that are auxilary to the classroom to start working pro-actively and positively with students instead of having to run around the building all day managing behavior problems.
Topics covered include...
- The importance of breathing and facial expression for effective behavior management
- Effective body language for maintaining authority and respect
- Strategies for responding to back talk and challenging behavior
- Effective communication techniques for encouraging positive behavior
- Non-verbal Elements of Getting the Class to Listen & Managing Interruption
- Setting up the Classroom to Maximize Proximity
- Moralizing Muslim students by Muslim teachers in the Modern Context with consideration for the harms of cyberbullying and screen additions.
- Inculcating Expectations with Interactive Modeling
- Visualization techniques for effective instruction
- Repetition strategies to enhance learning
- Sequencing concepts for effective instruction
- Scaffolding and building writing stamina
- Encouraging student-to-student interaction for deeper learning
- Avoiding common pitfalls in reading activities that lead to disengagement: what to do instead
- Avoiding common pitfalls in math instruction hat lead to disengagement:: what to do instead
Objectives and Deliverables:
- Equip educators with techniques to preemptively manage potential disruptions resulting in a decrease of major behavior infractions.
- Introduce the importance of breathing, facial expression, and effective body language in classroom management to maximize student engagement and on-task behavior.
- Address strategies for handling back talk and challenging behavior resulting in a decrease of major behavior infractions.
- Garner effective communication techniques to cultivate positive behavior that is intrinsically motivated in Muslims students over the long term.
- Understand the role of classroom setting in enhancing proximity and accessibility to maximize student engagement and on-task behavior.
- Integrate teachings of values for a harmonious classroom environment and cultivation of self-discipline over the long-term.
- Dive deep into cognitive architecture to foster long-term memory, ensuring a higher retention rate among students.
- Master visualization techniques to bolster instruction efficacy, leading to enhanced student comprehension and participation.
- Develop strategies for effective concept sequencing and scaffolding in learning, resulting in smoother transitions between topics and better grasping of complex subjects.
- Enhance reading and math instruction while avoiding common pitfalls, leading to improved reading fluency and mathematical problem-solving abilities.
- Encourage student-to-student interaction for deeper learning, promoting collaborative classroom atmospheres and enriched discussions.
- Utilize corrective feedback mechanisms to wean learned helplessness, ensuring students build resilience and persistence in academic tasks.
- Adopt direct instruction methodologies for engaged reading across content areas, leading to broader, interdisciplinary student understanding.
How is the Training Done?
This training can be done live and can be done online but is best done in-person. Training teachs about the psychological tendencies of young people that that cause common habits of off-task behavior that exist in all classrooms (interruption, side-talking during instruction, being off-task during independent work, resisting following directions, talking back at teachers etc.).
For all these common instances teachers are taught general dispositions and specific non-verbal strategies that re-direct petty misbehaviors at first instance so as to keep students on task with re-direction that is "cheap" in terms of time and energy so that teachers have tools to manage behavior before escalation occurs. When the training is extended, teachers also learn the common instructional mistakes that disconnect students from following the trail of learning, creating students who become insecure about their concept of a learner and who suffer the frustration of cognitive overload in the classroom (the most common root cause of student misbehavior). Teacher's learn what hiccups cause this to take place, how to remediate it and, more importantly, how to prevent it in the first place.
Strategies are not only modeled and practiced in role-playing by participants, but their use and application (as well as what happens when they are not applied) is demonstrated through real authentic video from actual classrooms. This is makes Real Deal Teaching a uniquely powerful program because teachers see its efficacy with their own eyes, and they practice out its application with their limbs, making them ready for immediate success afterwards.
All in all, the Real Deal Teaching program puts into a tangible praxis how teachers can exhibit themselves as adults in front of young people who earn authentic respect and whose authority is bought into as opposed to being coerced. Teachers who put into practice what is taught in this program are equipped to be leaders of students who young people experience as emotionally safe and genuinely worthy of being listened to.
For all these common instances teachers are taught general dispositions and specific non-verbal strategies that re-direct petty misbehaviors at first instance so as to keep students on task with re-direction that is "cheap" in terms of time and energy so that teachers have tools to manage behavior before escalation occurs. When the training is extended, teachers also learn the common instructional mistakes that disconnect students from following the trail of learning, creating students who become insecure about their concept of a learner and who suffer the frustration of cognitive overload in the classroom (the most common root cause of student misbehavior). Teacher's learn what hiccups cause this to take place, how to remediate it and, more importantly, how to prevent it in the first place.
Strategies are not only modeled and practiced in role-playing by participants, but their use and application (as well as what happens when they are not applied) is demonstrated through real authentic video from actual classrooms. This is makes Real Deal Teaching a uniquely powerful program because teachers see its efficacy with their own eyes, and they practice out its application with their limbs, making them ready for immediate success afterwards.
All in all, the Real Deal Teaching program puts into a tangible praxis how teachers can exhibit themselves as adults in front of young people who earn authentic respect and whose authority is bought into as opposed to being coerced. Teachers who put into practice what is taught in this program are equipped to be leaders of students who young people experience as emotionally safe and genuinely worthy of being listened to.
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