A step-by-step guide to teaching classes in a way that MINIMIZES apathy & MAXIMIZES active learning
This course is for you if you say "yes" to any of these:
- You are a secondary English teacher
- You are not feeling confident with your classroom management skills - especially these days
- You want to effectively deal with behavior issues even when you don't feel you are getting support from admin & parents
- You’ve been frustrated with low engagement and results from your students
- You want some practical strategies to motivate and inspire them
- You know what you have to teach, but you just aren’t sure how to do so in an engaging way
- You want to have a fun learning environment that challenges your students and keeps the rigor level high
- You want strategies to keep all students engaged and learning, regardless of their skill level
Creating a Climate for Learning will NOT
- Focus on teaching to any standardized test - but it WILL give you strategies to motivate and engage your students, so when you do have to teach to a test, they are ready to learn.
- Align with a particular curriculum; instead, it gives you strategies you can use regardless of which English class or grade level you teach.
- Tell you to stand on tables and spend huge amounts of time, energy, or money to engage students - but you will learn practical ways to get them ready and excited to learn.
If you're ready to teach & inspire instead of dealing with apathy & disruptions, here's how we'll help you get there:
Module One
Planning to Manage
Have you ever walked by another teacher’s classroom and wondered why they always seems to get the best classes? Each and every day, their kids are working quietly or are excitedly involved in a class activity. Sometimes, this is good luck, but most often it’s because of good planning and preparation.
Module One will take you through the steps you should follow when you plan to manage - something that should happen long before the students walk through the door of your classroom.
Highlights:
- Plan classroom routines and procedures that get buy-in from students
- Discover secrets to creating a strong & engaging teacher presence
- Practice your response to behaviors so you can create a climate of mutual respect
- Create a clear plan for managing your classes that maintains and enhances the climate you build
- Learn ways to be proactice rather than reactive when it comes to behavior managment
Module Two
Laying the Foundation
I know you've heard it before, but as far as I’m concerned, relationships are everything in the classroom. That’s why I’ve called this module Laying the Foundation - it’s what everything else you’ll do is built on. When you spend the time building relationships many other things will just fall into place.
Highlights:
- Learn strategies that will help you build strong relationships at the beginning of your course - and all year long
- Make a solid plan for building a classroom climate where all students feel secure and accepted
- Find ways to engage those who put up barriers
- Receive strategies, lessons, and learning stations that will help you engage more of your students
Module Three
The Power of Process
You've got your foundation, now it's time to build on it and get your students engaged in active learning. This module will give you inspiration and strategies for teaching your students how to learn. More importantly you'll do it in a way that will make them want to learn too.
Highlights:
- Identify and teach the processes that your students need for success
- Provide clear learning targets for your students
- Plan to model processes and find mentor texts
- Get inspiration, strategies, and MULTIPLE classroom-tested lesson plans that you can use to focus on the process with your students
Module Four
Planning to Engage
This module is where all of the magic happens. Now that you’ve considered the ways that you will show your studnets how to reach the learning target, we’re going to look at strategies to engage them in the learning process.
Highlights:
- Hook your students and get them ready and excited about learning
- Find inspiration and lesson plans for varied active learning activities that promote collaboration and critical thinking
- Provide a balance of learning activities that meet the varied needs of the students in your classes
- Get your students moving to learn
Module Five
Feed Forward
You put so much time and energy into giving your students feedback - and then they don't use it. Module Five will help you change that, as it focuses on ways that you can use highly effective feedback that feeds your students toward success - and gets them excited about learning.
Highlights:
- Learn strategies to ensure your students use your feedback
- Build student confidence and success with formative feedback
- Find time to do assessments in class - not during evenings and weekends
BONUS MODULE!
Engage with Multimodal Learning
There's no way around it: the brains of our 21st century students have changed. They access and use information differently than most of did, so we need to adapt if we want to keep them engaged. And we can do this without sacrificing rigor. This bonus module will explore how using a multimodal approach can help you to that.
Highlights:
- A look at 21st century students - why they've changed and how to engage them
- Learn ways to use tech wisely
- Get strategies - and assignments - for visual, auditory, and vertical learning
What are other teachers saying about the course? Click through below:
"This has been amazing, one of the best and most practical PD options you can do in the comfort of your own home."
Testimonial
JoAnne, Second Year High School Teacher
"This course has been an answered prayer for me! After a very tough year last year, I was looking for ways out. But now, I'm feeling more confident in ways to tackle classroom management and to create an environment where students actually want to learn. "
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Amy, 9th and 12th grade English teacher
"This course has completely changed my thinking on how I teach this year!"
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Jennifer, 9th & 10th grade English Teacher
"This course provides access to a treasure chest of resources from an expert teacher. It will no doubt save me enormous amounts of prepping time in the future and lead to me being a more effective, conscientious teacher. I'm so glad I signed up for it."
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Lizzie, Grades 9 - 12 English Teacher
"Every single lesson had practical applications for me in my classroom. It also helped me feel more capable and confident in my delivery and management skills, and gave me so many ideas for lesson plans and how to hone that process to be more efficient and fun, as well. I feel like this class over delivered."
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"If you want to get a head start on the road to "master teacher," this course will point you in the right direction. It's all about taking the time to recognize each of your students and how to do that while successfully teaching them. "
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"I teach 7th grade Language Arts and HS Humanities... I learned so much and will be able to use the theory behind the course and many of the products in my classroom... if you are wondering if this course is for middle school teachers too, I say yes! There is a little bit of theory, which is the driving force behind everything that Jackie teaches and produces, but it deepened my understanding of how to connect with students and build the foundation of my classroom. She also teaches you how to implement what you've learned and how to use the products to their maximum effect. I'm so glad I signed up for the course and am so grateful for all of what Jackie has created!"
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Genevieve, 7th Grade ELA & high school Humanities
"This course helped me understand the rationale and strategies behind some of my favorite Room 213 materials, and inspired me with useful and engaging new insights and ideas for my classes this year. "
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Jenn, ELA 9-10, Honors
"This course helped me evaluate my own teaching practices and provided tools to strengthen every aspect of delivery: planning, instruction, collaboration, feedback, & more. The exceptional resources are backed by research about how students learn best. I will be utilizing this information for a long time! "
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Stacie, 8th grade ELA
"This class exceeded my expectations. Jackie provides solid knowledge, true passion, practical tips, and extensive resources. "
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"When I signed up for this course, I was thinking perhaps I could gain a few new techniques as a veteran. The ideas and strategies to get students to engage in their learning allows teachers to examine their own practices, collaborate with peers from all over the U.S., and collect some amazing resources (I can't believe how many extras there were-- blog posts, little ideas she had along the way, etc). This was a great way to spend time off to rejuvenate and refresh some of my own practices and many will include Jackie's resources. "
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Jess, grades 10 and 12 English
ROOM 213's Satisfaction Guarantee
This course has six modules that are meant to work together. Just as I do with own classes, I've scaffolded it in a way that will allow for maximum learning. However, sometimes a course is just not a good fit. If, after two weeks, you can show me that you've done the work for Module One & Two and you are not satisfied, email me at @[email protected] and we will refund your registration.
Here’s what you’re getting when you enroll today:
Creating a Climate for Learning Digital Course PLUS
- Access to coaching with Jackie from ROOM 213. You will be able to ask questions and get advice on the the plans that you make for your classroom.
- Twenty-Five resources from Room 213 that align with the strategies in the course
- Exclusive lesson plans only available with this course.
- A PD certificate for your training
When you add it all up, that’s a LOT of value.
Get it today for only $150 OR get just the course for $75
I'm ready to make a change!
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions other teachers have asked before signing up for Creating a Climate for Learning:
The strategies in Creating a Climate for Learning are ones that can be applied to any class, regardless of your texts and outcomes.
There are 25 resources from Room 213 , each one chosen because it can be used in conjunction with the strategies I teach in the course. There are also lesson plans that are exclusive to this course. And, if you don't need the resources, click here to sign up for the course only.
Jackie taught high school English for over thirty years and now works with pre-service teachers, training them to engage and manage their classes. She spends time in middle and high school classrooms, observing her students and advising them on how to improve their practice.
Jackie will be available to members of this course to answer questions and provide feedback on the plans they are making for their classes. You will be able to do this via the course platform or directly via email.
While the course will touch on some of the ideas and strategies I have already explored on my blog, it will go much deeper, giving you even more specifics and strategies to help you engage and manage your classes.
My Teachers Pay Teachers resources are for specific lessons and activities for secondary English classes. This course is a guide that will help you with your day-to-day delivery of your course - regardless of grade, lesson, or activity. It’s a blueprint for how to engage and motivate your students. The resources available through Teachers Pay Teachers are a great accompaniment to what you will learn in this course, however. And, as you know, I will be including TWENTY-FIVE of them as a bonus when you sign up.
The resources are bonuses designed to work with the strategies you will learn in the course. However, if you have many of the resources already and would prefer to just purchase the course, you can by clicking here.
The products will be available for download with the modules that they align with. Most of them will come in Modules Two - Five. You can access these at any time, but it will work best if you work through the course first, so you'll know how and when to use them.
As long as you'd like! You have lifetime access, so there is absolutely no rush - you can do it on your own time and go back and revisit the lessons and ideas any time in the future.
As soon as you register, you'll get access to the course and all of the modules. However, I suggest you plan to go through them one at a time, because they are scaffolded and build on each other.
I know. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, this time it's not. You will get twenty-four of my TpT products, ones that align closely with the strategies I teach in the course. I want you to be able to see the strategies in action; I also want to save you a little time with some lessons that are already completed.
OK, so remind me again what I get when I enroll today?
The Creating a Climate for Learning Digital Course PLUS:
- Access to coaching with Jackie from ROOM 213
- Twenty-Five resources from Room 213 that align with the strategies in the course
- Exclusive lesson plans only available with this course.
- A PD certificate for your training
Get it today for for $150 OR get just the course for $75
This course is just what I need.
Still not sure if the course is right for you?
It's the right fit if...
- You're not feeling confident with your classroom management skills
- You're tired of facing a sea of apathetic faces every day
- You want easy-to-implement strategies to motivate your students
- You want your students to be working harder than you are
- You want your classroom to be a safe and accepting place full of active learning
- You are excited about all of the ready-to-use resources that come with - and complement - the strategies in the course
- You are ready to take control of your teacher life and make changes that will leave you feeling less drained at the end of the day
Does this sound like something you need?
Then sign up today, and let me help you deliver your course in a way that minimizes disruptions & apathy, and maximizes learning.
YOU WILL GET:
The Creating a Climate for Learning Digital Course PLUS:
- Access to coaching with Jackie from ROOM 213
- Twenty Five resources from Room 213 that align with the strategies in the course
- Exclusive lesson plans only available with this course.
- A PD certificate for your training
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Get the course and the supplemental materials for $150 OR get just the course for $75
