GRIT, PERSEVERANCE and MINDSET: Practical, Proven Strategies for Increasing Learning (Grades 1-5)

Presented by Lynn Stenroos
Award-winning Teacher and National Trainer

Specifically Designed for Grades 1-5 Educators: Classroom Teachers, Reading Specialists, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Behavior Intervention Specialists, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, and Administrators

Highly-effective techniques to help you develop a positive growth mindset in your grades 1-5 students
Proven strategies to improve your students’ engagement, attitude, grit, and perseverance
The best, most current strategies for building students’ motivation, responsibility, self-control, and cooperation
Receive an extensive grit, perseverance and mindset resource handbook, filled with strategies designed to increase your students’ intrinsic motivation, emotional intelligence and determination to succeed

Practical Ideas and Strategies

This practical seminar is designed to help you significantly increase your students’ motivation, grit, determination, and perseverance. You will learn powerful ways to help your students develop a positive growth mindset and develop a stronger capacity to actively engage in the learning process, give their best efforts in school, and to persevere when they meet obstacles to their achievement.

Lynn Stenroos, an award-winning educator and outstanding national trainer, will provide a compelling research-based rationale and dozens of specific, practical structures and strategies that have the power to help all students in grades 1-5 become successful. By applying these strategies you can improve students’ attitudes toward themselves as learners, decrease off-task or disruptive behavior, increase your teaching time, strengthen student engagement, and increase learning.

The focus of the day will be on specific classroom practices that increase motivation and perseverance in all students, including “unmotivated” or oppositional students. The goal is to help you increase responsible behavior, motivate greater student effort and produce strong gains in student learning.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Help Your Students Develop a Positive Growth Mindset
A positive growth mindset is essential for developing a positive attitude toward academic achievement … Learn specific ways to help your students develop a positive attitude toward assignments and classwork, and explore the latest research in what growth mindset is and ISN’T
Help Your Students Develop Grit, Perseverance and Determination
Learn specific ways of increasing students’ grit, determination and passion for learning as well as changing students’ attitude toward setbacks or failure … Build the key skill of perseverance
Use Failure as a Powerful Pathway to Achievement
Looking at FAILure as a First Attempt In Learning can change the landscape of your learning environment … Specific ways to help your students accept failure as part of the process in real learning
Increase Student Learning and Achievement
Learn specific structures, activities and practices that increase socially responsible behavior, high quality learning and that maximize academic performance
Help Students See Their Primary Role as Learners
Gain specific strategies for empowering students to become self-motivated learners who understand their roles and responsibilities in the teaching/learning process … Increase self-regulation skills
Inspire Maximum Student Effort and Student Agency
Specific ways to create the conditions for students to surpass expectations … How to best inspire your students to give their maximum efforts and strive for excellence in their work and behavior
Integrate Mindset and Visible Learning
Develop new, unique learning strategies to meet varied and appropriate-level challenging goals for all your students
Reduce Negative Behaviors and Increase Positive, Productive Attitudes and Behaviors
Prevent discipline problems before they occur and gain specific ideas for how to handle them when they do occur … Encourage positive, productive work behaviors
Discover the Keys to Effective Feedback
Learn how the manner in which we provide praise can either hinder or help academic and social growth … Provide process praise rather than outcome praise
Receive a Valuable Resource Handbook
Each seminar participant will receive a resource handbook filled with ideas, strategies and activities designed to increase students’ grit, motivation and growth mindset

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Specific strategies to improve students’ attitudes toward learning and their self-concept as learners
Practical approaches to increase students’ “grit” — their engagement in the learning process and their ability to persevere
How to help students choose a positive growth mindset
What research says about how you can help motivate students to give their best efforts
Practical strategies for preventing discipline problems from occurring and how to handle them if they do occur
How to create a culture of accountability where students take responsibility for their efforts and achievements
Practical approaches to building positive, trusting relationships with students and creating a learning community where students will put forth their maximum efforts
How to create a physically and emotionally safe, orderly classroom climate where grit, motivation and mindset can thrive
Engaging and relevant instructional strategies that increase student interest and students’ time?on?task
Highly effective ways to inspire students to persevere and strive for excellence in their work and behaviors
Learn how our perception of behavioral intent affects our capacity to deal with it and what to do about it
Communication strategies that lead to positive behavioral and attitudinal changes
Practical strategies for increasing student responsibility for their learning and behaviors
Specific ideas for creating a joyful learning climate and culture for the teacher as well as students
Help students develop strong, positive mental models to improve learning, integrity and purpose
How to respond effectively to the “I can’t” language or the self?defeating attitude of some students
Ways to motivate the unmotivated, disengaged students to reengage and give their best efforts during class time and in their school work

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Over the course of my teaching career, I have worked with dozens of students, many of whom would be categorized as “unmotivated learners.” They perceived themselves as “dumb,” “not good at learning, writing, math, etc.” and gave up when faced with the rigor of the classroom. Many others just didn’t see the value in engaging in the learning process and gave up before they even began.

When I gained an understanding of the keys to internal motivation and intentionally addressed them through my management and instructional practices, my classroom was transformed into a place where all students were actively engaged, disruptive behaviors disappeared, and everyone put forth greater efforts to increase their learning and academic success.

This seminar is based on fifty years of motivation research, my personal experience as a classroom teacher in grades 1-5 and upon ideas I’ve learned from the outstanding educators I have had the privilege to work with in my career.

Over the years, I have presented these ideas and practical strategies to educators throughout North America. The enthusiastic feedback I receive from these trainings encourages me to continue sharing practical ideas and strategies that bring out the best in students.

If you are looking for specific, practical ways to motivate students to improve their attitude toward learning and school, give their maximum efforts, increase their engagement, improve their ability to persevere, and strive to achieve, I encourage you to join me for this highly interactive one-day seminar. I have packed the day with strategies you can use to create a culture of academic excellence and personal (and social) responsibility in your grades 1-5 classroom.

I look forward to meeting you!

Sincerely,
Lynn Stenroos

P.S. Although the ideas I present are research-based, my focus will be on sharing the practical ways any educator can increase students’ motivation and willingness to give their best efforts.

Who Should Attend

Grades 1-5 Educators: Classroom Teachers, Reading Specialists, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Behavior Intervention Specialists, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

Strategies for increasing students’ motivation and engagement
Practical approaches to increasing students’ grit, their determination, ability to learn from failure, and their perseverance
Proven approaches to helping students achieve a growth mindset
Ideas for building responsibility and cooperative behaviors in all your students
Powerful ways to increase the engagement and participation of students
Specific ways to motivate the unmotivated learners in grades 1-5
How to build positive, respectful relationships with and among students

Meet and Share
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in helping students increase their grit, perseverance and mindset.

Consultation Available
Lynn Stenroos will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

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