Healing Minds Institute
Personal Power Press
thomas@thomashaller.com
1-877-360-1477
P.O Box 547
Merrill, Michigan 48637

Educator Workshops and Programs
by Thomas Haller

The Pillars of Morale: How to Build a Positive Attitude to Avoid Teacher Burnout: Keynote Address

This keynote will leave your teachers feeling excited about being an educator. It will rejuvenate your staff and embrace an educational system that celebrates uniqueness, connectedness and a sense of personal power.

Thomas masterfully presents the keys to building and maintaining a positive attitude. He re-ignites the passion that all teachers have within and empowers them to be the best teachers they can be.

This popular topic for keynote addresses can also be expanded to become a powerful workshop for administrators and teachers in a three-hour or a six-hour format.

In this workshop participants receive:

• 12 strategies that build morale through connectedness.
• The essential conditions that lead to positive attitudes and high morale.
• Critical mind skills for educators that transforms the way they view teaching.
• The tools necessary to establish meaningful values, goals and ideas that enhance their work environment.

Managing Aggression in Your classroom

Are you tired of having an angry child disrupt your classroom or reading group?  Is the aggressive behavior by one child making the learning difficult for the rest of the children? During this session teachers will learn how to respond to anger and aggression in ways that build self-esteem and responsibility. 

The participants will be introduced to:

• 5 essential tips for dealing with student anger.
• The major reason why you should always go to the victim first.
• An eye-opening lesson on where the motivation to behave really comes from.
• The 3 critical rules to follow when children are in the midst of aggression.
• Ways to recognize what part of the brain the aggressor is in and helpful strategies to move them quickly to an area of the brain that is conducive to problem-solving.
• The key to knowing when to remove a child from the classroom.

Achievement Motivation and Behavior Management: The Teacher Talk System

Teachers will learn how to decrease discipline problems and increase motivation for learning. This seminar offers a skill-based approach to using effective Teacher Talk that will encourage self-responsible behaviors, self-motivation, and increased effort on the part of students.

Teachers will learn the verbal skills necessary to:

• Get reinforcement theory working in their classrooms…..to encourage positive behaviors.
• Eliminate negative behaviors….giving them more time for teaching.
• Communicate anger an irritation skillfully…..so as not to wound the spirit.
• Give descriptive corrective feedback….to move students forward.
• Praise in constructive ways….so that students develop an internal standard.
• Use attribute awareness….to increase student responsibility for academic achievement.