This workshop gives you in-depth information to help you understand class differences and 10 actions you can implement the next day in the classroom to achieve impact. It gives you strategies and understandings to reduce your own frustration and better serve your students and parents.
Length: Six hours, deliverable in one, three, or six sessions.
Training Prerequisites: none
Contact: (800) 424-9484 | workshops@ahaprocess.com
Are you ready to make a real impact in your profession? Discover the keys to understanding poverty and empowering those affected by it with our on-site workshop!
A Framework for Understanding Poverty will help you understand how to negotiate and understand the world of survival.
Middle class understandings of poverty are often ill-suited for connecting with people in poverty. By adding this professional development to your skillset, you will gain in-depth information to help you understand how to better serve your students and their parents.
Explore class differences and 10 actions you can implement in the classroom to improve the success of low-SES students. This workshop is based on Ruby Payne’s book A Framework for Understanding Poverty, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies.
Teachers who participate in this training will:
- Use concrete instructional strategies to help students from poverty
- Understand hidden rules of economic class and effects on behaviors and mindsets
- Develop stronger relationships with students to impact behavior
- Reduce discipline referrals
Topics include resources, mental models, family structure, language patterns, and more. Give new and veteran teachers tools to help students from poverty today.
