MOTIVATING THE UNMOTIVATED: Teaching the Hard-to Reach Student (Grades 3-12) Presented by Anissa Moore Outstanding Presenter and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades 3-12: Classroom Teachers, Reading Specialists, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Behavior Intervention Specialists, Counselors, Instructional Assistants and Administrators

• Classroom-proven methods to build student motivation and success
• Innovative teaching techniques that lead to enhanced learning opportunities for distracted, reluctant, hard-to-reach students
• Practical instructional strategies to increase your students' focus and participation at school
• Creative approaches empowering teachers to establish improved relationships with struggling students

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Each of us has students who simply go through the motions, without any serious engagement in academics or learning. If you are searching for ways to engage these struggling and unmotivated students, this seminar is for you! In this exciting seminar, you will discover new, proven strategies to empower teachers with tools that translate into student motivation, engagement, and academic success. This will be a highly interactive seminar, introducing you to the most current, innovative instructional practices that will inspire intrinsic motivation in your reluctant students.

Anissa Moore will share powerful techniques applicable to all disciplines and any curriculum. You will leave this seminar equipped with an expanded "toolbox" of proven strategies that will increase student engagement, maximize motivation, and develop confidence, ultimately leading to more rewarding and meaningful learning outcomes in your classroom. Prepare to engage and motivate your students in ways you never imagined!

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Re-Engage the Student Who Has Given Up
   Gain high impact strategies for empowering students … Reframe their thinking and help them see they CAN succeed in school
2. Decrease Your Students' Negative Mindsets
   Turn around your students who see themselves as the "slow-learner" or "incapable" with practical strategies for helping students minimize the negative thoughts that get in the way of motivation and learning
3. Maximize Interest and Engagement in Your Lessons
   Identify key components of more engaging lessons and learn how to immediately incorporate those essential attributes into your existing lessons
4. Improve Student Commitments to Learning
   Adopt optimal conditions that develop and strengthen academic confidence, self-determination, and improve learning outcomes for your most reluctant learners
5. Inspire and Motivate Students Who Feel Overwhelmed by Struggles and Challenges
   Effectively guide students through struggles in ways that encourage and foster grit and persistence, leading to more successful academic habits
6. Meet Students Where They Are
   Learn specific ways of increasing personal determination and passion for learning as well as changing attitudes toward setbacks or defeat … Leave with differentiation strategies that work
7. Learn Innovative New Techniques to Captivate Students' Attention
   Utilize leading-edge instructional strategies, grounded in the most current research on the brain and learning, to captivate the attention of your unmotivated students and help them generate more intrinsic motivation
8. Discover Proven Strategies to Cultivate and Strengthen Your Students' Participation
   Identify tools to encourage and sustain student motivation … Explore the connection between optimism, growth mindset and student engagement
9. Maximize Engagement for Your Unmotivated Learners
   Discover strategies that capitalize on different learning styles and levels of learners to direct attention, sharpen focus and lead to more successful academic involvement
10. Receive an Extensive Digital Resource Handbook on Motivating the Unmotivated
    Participants will receive a digital resource handbook filled with the techniques, strategies, and activities you can immediately apply in your classroom

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• Proven techniques to build student confidence, engagement, and motivation
• Easy-to-implement practices that enhance staff and student motivation, leading to stronger teacher/student relationships
• Strategies to redirect and focus students who complete assignments early
• Tools designed to foster student confidence
• Approaches to motivate students who feel overwhelmed by their challenges
• Instructional approaches that maximize collaboration
• The most effective methods that lead to self-motivation and self-direction
• Classroom essentials to cultivate and strengthen participation
• Innovative techniques to captivate attention in more meaningful ways
• Powerful strategies to maximize interest and intrinsic motivation, grounded in research
• Practical methods to maximize motivation through the lens of differentiation

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

I get it. I see you, and the students you're trying to help. Each and every day you put in hours of effort to help all students grow and achieve, while faced with the challenge of meeting the needs of reluctant and unmotivated learners. Unmotivated students may refuse to follow directions, argue, withdraw from classroom discussions, or shut down completely. As educators, we strive to encourage students to perform but sometimes we need new tools in our toolbox to meet them where they are.

Motivation can be cultivated, practiced, and achieved. During our day together, I will give you practical ideas and proven methods to reach unmotivated and underachieving students. We will take a closer look at your existing strategies and take your current classroom to the next level – Motivation and Inspiration 2.0! Through tools that enhance your academic presentations, student accommodations that support a variety of response options, extrinsic-to-intrinsic strategies, and a positive climate, you can support students with "I can't" and "I won't" behaviors to become "I CAN" students!

Whether you have students with special and diverse needs, students who are underachieving, or students that don't seem to care about being at school, I have created this seminar for all students needing encouragement. And in turn, I hope to encourage YOU and strengthen your motivational abilities and techniques as an educator. You and I will spend the day with one focus in mind: to increase student motivation for school success. Students will feel empowered by the strategies you will teach and model for them, and YOU will feel empowered when you see your newly-acquired tools working.

I invite you to learn the best-practice approaches to help your struggling students, and I look forward to meeting you and inspiring you to expand the limitless potential that you and your students both have.

Sincerely,
Anissa Moore

P.S. Prepare for an interactive and collaborative day! The emphasis will be on proven and practical strategies you can use immediately in your work with your unmotivated students. You'll leave with a wealth of valuable tools, resources, and strategies you will be able to implement immediately in your classrooms.

Who Should Attend

Educators Serving Grades 3-12: Classroom Teachers, Reading Specialists, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Behavior Intervention Specialists, Counselors, Instructional Assistants and Administrators

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

• Outstanding Instructors
  All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
• Extensive Resource Handbooks
  You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
• Highly Interactive
  You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
• Program Guarantee
  As we have for 48 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

• Key attributes of learning that lead to motivation and self-direction to immediately implement in your curriculum
• Effective tools for immediate use in your classroom to cultivate improved and more active participation
• Innovative instructional strategies to increase attention, engagement, and motivation in your students
• Proven methods to guide and drive collaboration that can lead to meaningful learning opportunities
• Practical approaches to foster and build greater academic confidence in your students

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing their students' motivation.

Consultation Available
Anissa Moore will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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