MOTIVATING THE UNMOTIVATED

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1 MOTIVATING THE UNMOTIVATED Reaching the Hard to Reach Student Presented by Chick Moorman Practical Strategies Internationally Recognized Trainer and author of Spirit Whisperers: Teachers Who Nourish a Child s Spirit Specifically Designed for Classroom Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Administrators, Behavior Intervention Specialists, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, Program Spe4cialists, School Psychologists, and Responsibility Room Coordinators. Classroom proven strategies for increasing respectful, responsible, and cooperative behaviors. Practical methods for reducing and preventing power struggles, learned helplessness, apathy, and disruptive behaviors. Teacher-friendly ideas to help students give up the victim stance and assume increased personal responsibility over their school lives. Learn innovative teaching techniques that help students develop an internal authority that provides a sense of purpose and direction in their lives. Receive dozens of ideas on how to help students assume an I Can stance in your classroom and in their lives. Are you tired of disrespectful, unselfresponsible behaviors in students? Are you seeing an increase of apathetic, non-responsive acts? Are you noticing too many bored expressions and noticing a lack of initiative and follow-through? Are you fed up with students acting, talking, and thinking like victims without taking responsibility for their own behaviors? Then this seminar is for you! You ll learn strategies to help your students increase their respectful, responsible behaviors. You ll come away with an action plan to successfully deal with the negative behavior you wish to eliminate. In this fast-paced seminar, Chick Moorman, will help you help your students take increasing amounts of control over their school lives and behave in respectful, responsible ways. At his seminar you will learn a wide variety of proven strategies to prevent power struggles, increase self-motivation, and help students build positive and productive relationships. Armed with an extensive resource handbook and a positive attitude, you will leave this seminar with a renewed desire to make a difference in the lives of your most challenging students.

2 Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately. 1. Proven teaching strategies to reduce power struggles. 2. Techniques for stamping out learned helplessness. 3. Effective ways to promote students ability to make decisions and follow through. 4. Dozens of verbal skills designed to enhance achievement motivation and behavior management. 5. Teacher-tested ideas for eliminating negative behaviors. 6. Improve your classroom climate by it safe for students to challenge themselves and take appropriate risks. 7. Create a culture of accountability with effective ways to hold students accountable without wounding their spirit. 8. Twenty unself-responsible language choices to avoid using with students. 9. Techniques for getting attribute theory working in your classroom. 10. Mind skills to help you and your students become more response-able. 11. How to use the permission giving alternative while getting students to think critically. 12. Respond effectively to I can t language and actions. 13. Twenty ways to talk that get students in touch with their own power. 14. Strategies for building connectedness and feelings of belonging in your classroom. 15. How to handle anger and aggression effectively. 16. Help students develop mental models to create integrity, mission and purpose in their lives. 17. Dislodge the victim stance often assumed by low achieving students. 18. Work successfully to help students improve their response-ability quotient. 19. Help students own their behaviors rather than disown them with excuses and blaming. Extensive Resource Handbook You will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are: Strategies for increasing respectful, responsible, and cooperative behaviors in hard to reach students. Effective verbal skills that increase achievement motivation and behavior management with unsuccessful students. Techniques for reducing and preventing power struggles, learned helplessness, apathy, and other disruptive behaviors. Clear steps on how to help students give up the victim stance and take personal responsibility for their choices and actions.

3 WHAT YOUR COLLEAGUES SAY ABOUT CHICK MOORMAN The time went by so fast and I learned so much! I can t wait to get back to my classroom. Thank you for this skill-oriented workshop. All of the teachers from my building that are here are raving about it. Your seminar was informative and entertaining. I didn t think both were possible from the same person. Thank you. Every training minute was useful and enjoyable, thus making the possibility of implementation a reality. Your ability to direct learning in a motivational, in-depth manner was exemplary. I liked the down to earth techniques that I can apply directly in my classroom. I gained insights and skills that will help me in my interactions with underachievers. I now know how to build more positive relationships with these students. You gave us many things to ponder and even more ideas I can use in my classroom immediately. I wish all of my teachers could have heard Mr. Moorman. I would like them all felling the way I do, I can make a difference! You caused me to rethink, reevaluate, and soon redesign much of what I do with problem students. Thank you. The handbook was worth the price of admission. And your presentation blew me away. I will tell you this. I am not the same person who came in here this morning. I feel like I have been transformed. What an eye- and heart-opening session. I didn t even want to come. And now I am sad that it is ending. Such an impact you have had on me! Thanks for keeping the day interesting and fastmoving. You had my complete attention. Your dedication to empowering students and teachers was first-rate. Mr. Moorman s presentation from start to finish was informative, practical, and fun. It s now time for me to put these ideas into action. My favorite parts of the day were the examples given and the enthusiasm displayed by Mr. Moorman.

4 Ten Key Benefits of Attendance 1. Learn to diagnose your unmotivated students and prescribe the most appropriate and effective interventions from dozens of classroom-tested strategies. 2. Add tools to your professional tool box giving you new and effective techniques for managing disruptive, isolated, apathetic, defiant behaviors. 3. Eliminate power struggles and power failure by learning how to help students gain an appropriate and balanced sense of personal power. 4. Learn to put attribute theory into practice in your classroom so that underachievers understand the relationship between their behavior and performance. 5. Help underachievers give up the victim stance and assume more responsibility over their school lives so you spend less time motivating and more time teaching. 6. Dramatically decrease the number of students who choose to underachieve by learning how to manage your classroom and your own mind to positively impact your at risk students. 7. Learn how to move UP in consciousness before you move IN with action to insure your intervention is appropriate and successful. 8. Create a specific plan for each challenging student based on your observations and professional diagnosis. 9. Learn to use effective verbal skills that increase achievement motivation and behavior management. 10. Learn strategies to eliminate negative behaviors giving you more time for teaching. 11. Develop a classroom atmosphere that builds positive relationships and fosters mutual respect. 12. Become the teacher you always wanted to by learning how to hold students accountable for their choices without wounding their spirit. 13. Help your students understand the relationship between cause and effect with debriefing questions that help them think critically as they process the important learning opportunities often referred to as mistakes.

5 A MESSAGE FROM THE SEMINAR LEADER, CHICK MOORMAN Dear Colleague, Institute for Personal Power P.O. Box 547, Merrill, MI (toll-free) Underachieving students often fail to turn in assignments. They fail to attend class regularly, fail to build positive relationships, and fail to steer clear of self-defeating behaviors. Underachievers fail to find meaning in schoolwork, fail to ask for help, and fail to see the connection between effort, success, and failure. Failure hurts! Failure encourages impulses to escape, attack, cheat, distract, shutdown, and give up. Learning to break the cycle of failure in your underachieving students is not easy. It does not happen by magic, luck, or simply because you placed a few character education posters on the wall and added daily inspirational quotes on the chalk board. It happens only where teachers set out to make it happen with a specific plan based on the diagnosed needs of the student. It happens where teachers implement that plan with regularity and consistency. It happens when a committed teacher intentionally and thoughtfully uses skill, determination, and a positive attitude to produce a desired result. Yes, it is possible for you to help underachieving students to improve their performance and maximize their potential. I have designed this seminar to help you do just that. You will come away with many strategies that you can put to use immediately in your classroom. You will also leave with the desire to begin transforming the lives of those students others seem to have given up on. Within two weeks you will be telling others emphatically, This stuff works. There are teachers in the profession who have given up on students who have given up on themselves. If you are one of them, this is an opportunity to change your mind about that decision. If you are simply looking for a new spark, a collection of helpful strategies, or a pat on the back, you will find that at this seminar also. I guarantee you will not leave this session without new ways of thinking about and new strategies for dealing with underachieving students. I look forward to meeting you and sharing this material with you. Warmly, Chick Moorman P.S. If you could transform the life of just one student this semester your time will have been well spent. Invest a day with me and let s transform the world together.

6 Successful Educator and International Presenter A Distinguished Educator... A Captivating Speaker... Chick Moorman is a veteran educator who has invested more than 40 years working with students and teachers. More than 300,000 participants have attended his seminars. He is one of the world's foremost authorities on raising responsible, caring, confident children. Chick Moorman is the director of the Institute for Personal Power, which provides high-quality workshops and seminars to educators and parents. Mr. Moorman has conducted seminars or has led school improvement processes for over 600 schools. Using motivational stories, humor, and practical ideas that can be put to use immediately, Chick helps participants personalize the seminar content and adapt it for their own use. When Chick Moorman speaks, people do more than listen. They put the ideas to use in their lives. Mr. Moorman is on a mission to empower professional educators so they can in turn empower the students they love and serve. He is the author of Spirit Whisperers: Teachers Who Nourish A Child s Spirit, and Teacher Talk: What it Really Means. Chick publishes a FREE e-zine for educators. Sign up for it on his web site at