Keynote Address (and supporting workshops):

Creating the Cognitive Context for Learning and Other Brain-Based Teaching Strategies (90 to 120 Minutes) $5,000 plus 10 copies of the book Instructional Practices That Maximize Student Achievement ($54.95 each plus s/h).

The program is designed to insure the implementation of these important strategies in every classroom in the district or school. The address provides teachers with the skills to raise student achievement by effectively creating a cognitive context for their students. Teachers learn the brain based research supporting the posting and stating of agendas, posting and stating of mastery objectives and essential questions, use of activators, summarizers, connecting the curriculum to previous learning, students’ own lives, the real world, and other brain based strategies. The address is based on Dr. Ribas’ book Instructional Practices That Maximize Student Achievement: For Teachers, By Teachers. After the address all the teachers in the district work with the administrators and coaches on implementing these strategies.

 Prior to the address, Dr. Ribas holds a four hour workshop with the administrative staff and coaches. At this meeting he previews the keynote address and provides the administrators and coaches with a menu of work options for use during the group work periods after the address. A decision is made as to which menu option will be addressed by each teacher work group. The administrators and coaches are each assigned to lead a work group.

 A second four hour workshop is held in the weeks after the keynote address day. In that workshop Dr. Ribas teaches the administrators how to create building and department action plans for implementing the cognitive context strategies in every classroom in the district.

 Dr. Ribas will provide the district with a copy of the power point slides and other handouts. The district will copy these for the participants.

Keynote address (and supporting workshops)

Motivating the Low Motivation Student and the Nature of Intelligence (90 to 120 Minutes) $5,000 plus 10 copies of the book Instructional Practices That Maximize Student Achievement ($54.95 each plus s/h).

 David Perkins, Carol Dweck, Ruby Payne, and Howard Gardner have studied those student groups with a higher incidence of low school motivation. They identified the connection between the beliefs about intelligence held by these students and their level of motivation. They have created strategies designed to reduce the cycle of low motivation. This address is designed to help educators understand the reasons for the cycle of low motivation that inhibits the success of these students. It provides concrete strategies for teachers. The program is designed to insure the implementation of these important strategies in every classroom in the district or school.

 Prior to the address, Dr. Ribas holds a four hour workshop with the administrative staff and coaches. At this meeting he previews the keynote address and provides the administrators and coaches with a menu of work options for use during the group work periods after the address. A decision is made as to which menu option will be addressed by each teacher work group. The administrators and coaches are each assigned to lead a work group.

 A second four hour workshop is held in the weeks after the keynote address day. In that workshop Dr. Ribas teaches the administrators how to create building and department action plans for implementing the cognitive context strategies in every classroom in the district.

 Dr. Ribas will provide the district with a copy of the power point slides and other handouts. The district will copy these for the participants.

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