PowerPoint Presentations For Staff Development For Students From Poverty:
Featured Powerpoint:
Teaching with Poverty in Mind
Get the presentation from the newest version of the blockbuster ASCD book! Learn the newest research on what poverty does to kids brains. Find out what are the four biggest factors that impact the brains of poverty.
Discover the real potential for change in every student’s brain. This updated presentation that helps teachers connect the research with the classroom-practical strategies. You get the brain scans, the key principles and most importantly, the teacher-tested ideas you can use immediately.
This 143-slide session has color, passion, science and still answers the question, “What do I do on Monday?” This shows links to differentiation, enrichment, learning and memory strategies. It is long enough for either a 2 hour, half-day or full day session. Staff will be talking about this presentation for weeks! The support book recommended for this presentation is Teaching with Poverty in Mind by Eric Jensen.
AD/HD Insight and Solutions
We all know that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a frustrating condition. This 114-slide presentation explores the most accurate definitions, symptoms, history and causes.
This detailed session has WAY MORE than you’ll need, but feel free to trim it to fit your staff. It’s chock-a-block with specifics that you can use. You’ll get dozens of the best-researched, most practical solutions. Includes brain scans.
You’ll get page after page of accommodations and interventions that work. Perfect for all parents and educators. Expect staff to gain background and strategies to implement immediately.
The support book recommended for this presentation is Different Brains, Different Learners by Eric Jensen.
Arts with the Brain in Mind
Learn why visual, tactile and musical arts are so essential to our students. You’ll get a colorful and engaging presentation, with 85 fresh new slides that explore the research behind the arts.
Many studies suggest that arts can have a significant and lasting positive effect on student learning. But what exactly does the research tell us and how much arts are needed to change the brain?
Discover what the research says and find out if arts should be assessed or not. Great this great persuasion tool for parents, administrators and school board. Expect staff to gain background and strategies to implement immediately.
The support book recommended for this presentation is Arts with the Brain in Mind by Eric Jensen.
Oppositional & Conduct Disorders
Surprisingly 10-12% of all children in America have a behavioral disorder. The most common one is oppositional disorder and the most violent is conduct disorder.
This compelling presentation gives you the brain-based understanding for these common issues. But more importantly, you get pages of real world solutions. Most of them are free and require minimal skills. Doing the right thing is more important than doing it perfectly.
This dynamic 97-slide presentation gives you the issues, causes and solutions with amazing up-to-date clarity. Expect staff to gain background and strategies to implement immediately. The support book recommended for this presentation is Different Brains, Different Learners by Eric Jensen.
Secrets of the Teenage Brain
You get an engaging and colorful 99-slide presentation is packed with both research and practical strategies.
New brain research tells us how the brain changes and what you can do to be ahead of the game. Expect to learn how to discipline better, motivate better and improve student achievement. Learn about how the teenage brain is very different from that of a child or an adult. Discover the 5 areas of vulnerability, learn how teens are influenced by stress, rewards or risky behavior.
Find out their sensitivity to rewards and their inability to read or manage emotions. Expect staff to gain background and strategies to implement immediately. Perfect for parents or teachers. The support book recommended for this presentation is Secrets of the Teenage Brain by Sheryl Feinstein
Teaching with the Brain in Mind
This is the newly updated presentation that helps teachers connect the research with the classroom-practical strategies. You get the brain scans, the key principles and most importantly, the teacher-tested ideas you can use immediately.
This is the fresh, cutting-edge 143-slide session with color, easy-to-understand science and yet still answers the question, “What do I do on Monday?” This shows links to differentiation, enrichment, learning and memory strategies.
Get beautiful brain scans! It is long enough for either a 2 hour, half-day or full day session. Staff will be talking about this presentation for weeks! The support book recommended for this presentation is (of course) Teaching with the Brain in Mind by Eric Jensen.
Tools for Engagement
This is a “Tell-all” slide show and “The secret’s out of the bag” presentation perfect for staff developers and adult educators. The strategies can be used with students from grades 1-12 and adult.
You get a 148-color slide presentation that gives you the art and science behind engaging teaching. There’s no room for excuses or failures anymore. This gives you the all-time 10 best strategies for student engagement.
Expect staff to gain background and strategies to implement immediately. If you’re not using these brain-smart tools, you’re either working too hard or missing students. It is best used with the book Tools for Engagement by Eric Jensen
Upgrading the Student Brain
Do you have any students who are under performing? If so, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and rebuild their brain.
The human brain has enormous plasticity and your students can learn go from Ds and Fs to Bs and As. How? You’ll learn how to improve attention, memory, processing, sequencing, hopefulness and how to develop the growth mindset.
You get clear science and beautiful brain scans. This innovative 82-slide presentation gives you ideas, science and practical strategies you can use immediately. It is best used with the book Enriching the Brain by Eric Jensen.