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Teacher In-Service Programs
Quick And Easy Strategies For Making Schools Safer
Teachers have never been busier. And there seems to be no end to asking teachers to do more. As many parents become increasingly less able to meet the needs of their children, teachers are asked to fill in with everything from feeding kids breakfast to providing character development. Dr. Ken Condrell recognizes how teachers today are on overload and offers only strategies that require a minimal amount of time and effort. His presentation offers practical help to teachers. Teachers will learn how to:
- Communicate more effectively with difficult parents
- Rely on Life Space Interviewing in the classroom
- Shape up school discipline
- Identify troubled kids with the Checklist of Teacher Concerns
Why Do Ordinarily Good Kids Do Such Extraordinarily Bad Things?
With every school shooting, we ask ourselves, how is this possible? Dr. Ken Condrell in his presentation, makes sense out of the senseless violence in our schools. From murder to peer cruelty Dr. Ken Condrell shows teachers and administrators how schools can become safer. His presentation answers seven critical questions:
- What makes kids kill?
- What are three groups of children schools need to watch out for?
- Why parents of violent children do not warn schools when their children will strike?
- What triggers school violence?
- How schools can identify troubled kids before they explode?
- What are four easy strategies for making schools safer?
- How to show kids a better way to live together?
Student Assembly Programs
How Kids Can Prevent School Violence, Peer Cruelty And Bullying
Every day, over 160,000 kids skip school out of fear they will be abused by their peers. For many, many years, teachers and school administrators thought peer cruelty and bullying to be harmless. Today we know that kids being mean to kids is not only damaging to the personalities of young people but it is out of control in our schools. Dr. Ken Condrell offers a dynamic, fast paced presentation to assemblies of children and teens designed to inspire sensitivity and thoughtfulness among peers. His presentation shows kids through group discussion and videos how:
- Peer cruelty damages kids
- To develop compassion for kids who are victimized
- Kids can stop the bullies in their school
- Schools become safer and more fun when kids stop being mean
- Kids can change their school environment by taking a special pledge
Evening Presentations to Parents
How To Survive And Enjoy The Teenage Years
Most parents dread the adolescent years. Dr. Ken Condrell however is a firm believer that the teen years can be a great time for a family. His presentation teaches parents 12 lessons that are essential for making the most of the teen years. Parents will learn:
- The secret to enjoying the teen years
- Why adolescence scares parents
- How parenting has to change during adolescence
- Safe and unsafe ways teens rebel
- How parents can discipline teens & still stay in charge of their teen
- Common mistakes that alienates teens from parents
- How to strengthen your relationship with your adolescent
- How to talk to teens so they listen
- How to be a powerful influence in your teen's life
The presentation closes with a group discussion on allowances, curfews body piercing, tattoos, driving, sex, make up, clothes, telephones, dating, sleeping in, working and the internet.
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