Inject the amazing power of music into your instruction to engage reluctant, challenged and gifted learners—even if you don’t have a musical bone in your body! Learn how to organize, transition, and end lessons with music and to differentiate content, instruction & assessment. Gain practical examples and strategies, from easy to intense, along with a personal action plan.
Too noisy, too wiggly, too disruptive, too angry or too disengaged? Hot off the press is a 30 year longitudinal study that supports what we all know - a young student who lacks self-control is much more likely as an adult to face health, legal, family, and job problems. Yelling and punishments seldom work. This session is full of strategies to help your off-task students engage and learn. Help your students gain skills that improve your chances of a good day, and their chances for a good life!
Wake up! Yes, we've all been to meetings and asked, "Why did we have this meeting?" Frustration levels rise quickly when small or large group meetings become whining sessions, little is accomplished, or the same person makes the same long speech on the same topic! On the contrary, it IS possible to have staff development and meetings that target current educational issues with innovative, collaborative, engaging activities and resources. Yes, a staff meeting CAN energize educators while they learn. Team meetings, curriculum meetings, and other staff gatherings are opportunities to model best practices for classrooms. Join Monte Selby for a musical, fun, involved session and leave with ideas, skills, and a few good laughs!
Monte Selby will use humor, interaction, a bit of research, and critically acclaimed original music to explore the importance of creating a vision for a "Best Day Ever." Selby is an experienced teacher, principal, professor, and father of four who believes that educational staff having a great day can change a student's educational experience forever.