MAKING CONNECTIONS COURSE CATALOG FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF COUNSELING

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Making Connections

Course Catalog

From the Department of Counseling & Behavioral Services



The following courses are available for professional development in Humble ISD.

To schedule a workshop for your campus, contact Matt Smith at 281-641-8408 or

[email protected]



Making Connections 101 (New Teacher Training ONLY)


Participants will gain an understanding of classroom management at its foundation level, and develop techniques that are rooted in the best practices of education. Based on a whole child approach to learning, participants will understand the benefits of building healthy relationships while creating structures for success in which optimal learning may occur.


Making Connections with the Whole Child


In this training, participants will understand the 5 tenets of the Whole Child. Participants will learn about the Great 8 skills that are necessary to be successful in school and beyond. Hands on strategies to address these skills will be provided.


Making Connections through DISC Personality Training


This course focuses on understanding ourselves and others based on the four personality types, DISC. With this workshop you will identify your primary style of self and understand how to better work with members of your team. This interactive course includes hands on activities that you can easily bring back to the classroom.


Making Connections through DISC 2.0


This workshop delves deeper into the DISC temperments. Participants reflct on the strengths and challenges of each temperment,understand their relational style, and use the information provided to strengthen teams and resolve conflicts.






Making Connections: Sharpening the Saw with ROPES

Covey habit number 6, Synergize Covey habit number 7, Sharpen the Saw


Participants will participate in team based activities that incorporate problem solving skills and fundamentals of communication in order to accomplish an experiential task. These hands on activity based tasks will foster a team building effort that can easily be brought back to the classroom.


Making Connections to Career Pathways


Using the Bridges program as a starting point, participants will look at personality, interests, and values and how they may relate to various career opportunities. Focusing on strength based assessment, this course opens the pathway to opportunities in the areas of employment, resources, and higher education and helps make learning more relevant by tying instruction to college and careers.


Making Connections: Growth Mindset


This workshop addresses motivation and helping individuals to realize that they can overcome their own challenges by changing how they think about themselves and the world. Fixed mindsets limit students; however, growth midsets enable them to see their own potential.


Making Connections Through Synergy


This training allows participants to experience a simulation activity with the goal of reaching synergy. Participants will then determine whether their group reached their goal. Participants will also discuss how synergy works and its impact on groups and problem solving.


Making Connections: Using Corrective Teaching to Avoid Escalation

Covey habit number 5, Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood


This course will focus on ways to avoid behavioral escalation in and out of the classroom setting. A good builder is always adding to the tool belt. We will show how the use of body language and specific words can help avoid escalation and disruptions in the classroom.


Making Connections to Opportunity, Freedom and Self-Respect


Do your students ever ask you, “Why should I even try?” This course will help you motivate your students using the Why Try program. Participants will learn how 10 simple metaphors can help teach students the life skills they need to succeed. Teachers, counselors and administrators will learn how to use these metaphors in particular settings with individual students as well as with groups.


Making Connections: Creating a Classroom of Choice

Covey habit number 1, Be Proactive Covey habit number 6, Synergize


This course focuses on the daily challenge of engaging students whose knowledge, skills, needs, and temperaments are so very different. Participants will learn skills that help meet the challenge of establishing a learning environment that supports the class as a whole while also meeting the particular needs of individual students. At the heart of this approach are the five basic human needs of William Glasser's Choice Theory: survival and security, love and belonging, power through cooperation and competency, freedom, and fun. By understanding and attending to these needs, teachers can customize and manage a classroom environment where students learn to motivate and monitor themselves.


Making Connections to Strengths through Multiple Intelligences/Learning Styles

Covey habit number 2, Begin with the End in Mind Covey habit number 6, Synergize


In this workshop participants will receive tools to assist students as well as themselves in the identification of their multiple intelligences and their preferred learning modality. Participants will also discover ways to help students use their intelligences to achieve academic and affective success.


Making Connections with Reinforcers and Consequences

Covey habit number 2, Begin with the End in Mind

Covey habit number 5, Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood


This workshop focuses on a deeper understanding of the function of behavior as well as how behaviors satisfy needs. Participants will use this knowledge to develop relevant reinforcers and reasonable and rational consequences to increase desired behavior and decrease undesired behaviors.


Making Connections in Early Childhood


Participants will examine the diversity of Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms. This program will focus on experience levels with age appropriate behaviors, classroom arrangements including transitions, class-wide incentive systems, and understanding the circle of control. *This workshop is geared for Pre-K and Kindergarten staff


Making Connections: Managing the Room through Music and Movement

Covey habit number 1, Be Proactive Covey habit number 2, Begin with the End in Mind

Covey habit number 4, Think Win-Win


This workshop focuses on nonverbal classroom management techniques, including the use of deliberate physical movement and the enhanced incorporation of music.


Making Connections: Building Community in the Classroom

Covey habit number 5, Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood

Covey habit number 6, Synergize


Connecting to students where they are and providing a safe place to share feelings and practice social skills through the use of class meetings.


Making Connections: Gearing Up for the Second Semester


In this training participants will review the seven habits of highly effective teachers, redefine their classroom expectations, and review their policies and procedures. Participants will come up with a game plan for implementation for the second semester.


Making Connections: ROPES for 5th Grade Teachers


This workshop provides fifth grade teachers with the skills and hands on experience necessary to conduct ground level ROPES activities with their students on their campus. Campuses with this training also gain access to the district ROPES course for additional low element ROPES experiences.


Making Connections: ADHD and Tier 1 Interventions


This workshop explores specific characteristics of students with ADHD. Looking below the surface of the iceberg participants explore interventions that can be used with ADHD students as well as all students to increase academic and social success.


Making Connections: The Nuts and Bolts of Behavioral RTI


Participants discuss and review the RTI process. Supports available for each level are explored and parallels to the academic RTI process are examined. Participants also learn a step by step process for writing en effective behavior contract.


Making Connections with Action Based Learning


Participants will better understand the link between movement and brain retention through the incorporation of student action. We all know that students need to move, this workshop will demonstrate how to create an ABL environment for students of all ages.

 




Making Connections through Motivation and Engagement


Participants will gain an understanding of the challenges their students face by learning tips and tools to motivate and engage the entire class, as well as individuals.



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