This series is based on Michael’s best-selling books for educators. Widely used in the U.S., Europe, Australia, Asia and Latin America. ENVoY: Your Personal Guide to Classroom Success and A Healthy Classroom are available from our bookstore.

What is Non-verbal Classroom Management?
The non-verbal communication skills offered in this training will positively influence the single most powerful leverage point in education: the teacher-student relationship.

Teachers who systematically utilize the full range of non-verbal management skills are able to reinforce consistent and fair parameters while preserving their relationships with each student, regardless of unique learning styles or cultural backgrounds.

One teacher who has been through the training recently summarized this point:
"Before the students care what you know, they need to know that you care."

Expected outcomes include fewer disciplinary incidents, improved student attendance,
higher student grades, higher staff morale, and a lower level of staff burn-out.

Topics of Study are:

1. Why non-verbal messages are more effective in classroom management than verbal messages
2. Recognizing and responding to the various learning styles of students
3. Disciplining for student needs rather than for teacher needs
4. Establishing and preserving relationships of influence
   

   Summary of Classes

ENVoY: Preserving relationships while gaining compliance in the classroom

ENVoY, the name given to the system of non-verbal techniques presented in this training, will improve classroom climate, enhance student productivity, and decrease the level of staff burnout.

The non-verbal communication skills offered in this training will positively influence the single most powerful leverage point in education: the teacher-student relationship. Teachers who systematically utilize the full range of non-verbal management skills are able to reinforce consistent and fair parameters while preserving their relationships with each student, regardless of unique learning styles or cultural backgrounds.

ENVoY is a vehicle to shift educators from seeing themselves as bastions of Power to instruments of Influence.

Days of Training: 2-5

Units of Credit: 1-2

Chapman University Practicum credit available.

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A Cat in the Doghouse: Charisma—Establishing and understanding classroom relationships

Charge up your charisma and leadership. Learn to use your power of influence in your classroom!

Course Objectives—This course will give you a basic understanding of behavioral styles from high accommodators (i.e., dogs) to low accommodators (i.e., cats). Anyone who has ever owned a cat and a dog instinctively knows the differences between their personalities. This animal analogy is applied to people so we understand why cats are so difficult to work with. And yet their loyalty, once gained, is often greater than a dog is. This program centers on how a leader has to form relationships in order to operate with influence instead of power.

This program provides specific strategies for:
• Reflecting on your own "cat" and "dog" tendencies
• Recognizing "cat and dog-ness" in others
• Increasing one’s flexibility to be genuine with "dogs" and intrigue the "cats."
• Running meetings more effectively
• Increasing one’s tolerance of the competitive nature of the "cat" and utilizing the team spirit of the "dog."

Prerequisite and audience—No previous experience is necessary. While the program is open to anyone, it is intended for teachers who work with adolescents, kinesthetic-oriented students, at-risk pupils and talented/gifted learners.

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A Healthy Classroom—Group dynamics in the classroom

By using ENVoY, leading-edge teachers like you have changed the way we educate children today. A Healthy Classroom, is the next step. This new program takes the science of ENVoY to the art of total classroom management.

Course objectives — This course will give you concrete ways to use group dynamics to benefit everybody in your classroom — especially you! It provides specific strategies for

• accelerating the formation of the class as a group
• recognizing and utilizing the leaders in the classroom
• coping with the seasons of the school year
• managing disruptive students

A Healthy Classroom is an intensive classroom management program, with easy-to-use templates for understanding the intricacies of group dynamics in the classroom.

Days of Training: TBD

Units of Credit: TBD

Chapman University Practicum credit available

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Michael Grinder and Associates is committed to bringing the most current, cutting-edge information to the educational community. We also offer specific educational classes and products  for Trainers and Administrators.

1. Train The Trainer For ENVoY
2. Not To Get Shot—Program for Administrators

Plus we offer Green Chair Coaching.

It is a powerful process developed by Michael Grinder to give direct and concentrated feedback for individual teachers and schools to increase their effectiveness in classroom management using influence, not power. During the process the coach observes processes and interactions within the classroom and provides with non-judgmental sensory specific feedback. Call 360-687-3238 to learn more about Green Chair Coaching.