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Welcome to
Teaching Our Youth
Mark and I truely enjoy being with you and your teams in workshops and conferences throughout the mid-west. We appreciate and welcome your questions, challenges, and insights. As we have shared with you, please share with us as often as you would like. You can contact us throught our web site and our direct email listed below.
Although you may not hear it as often as you should, you are appreciated and we admire what you do for the children. We are always learning, leading, and influencing others and you are there on the front lines every day.
Karen Wagnon
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Lesson Learned!
Last month I shared a story about my son Erik and the difficulty the "S" student may have in asking for help when they are struggling with their school work. My suggestion for educators was to reach out and offer help to the student. In most cases they will accept your help. My suggestion to my "S" student is, although it feels uncomfortable to ask for help, you still need to ask for help!
As a follow up to that situation, Erik did begin getting help. His teacher offered extra help on Tuesday and Thursday. After about a week I asked, "Are you still meeting with Mr. Stern on Tuesday and Thursday?" He replied, "Yes." I asked, "How is that working out for you?" Erik answered, "OK." I said, "See it's not so bad, your teachers really do want to help you". He agreed but told me, "I still wait outside the door until the other kids show up." Even after all that our shy "S" style students may still feel awkward asking for help.
The semester had ended. Erik and I were out grocery shopping when he informed me, "I failed Pre-Calc." To which I replied, "Really, what a bummer." (A great Love and LogicŪ response.) Good thing we were in a public place, huh? Anyhow, I asked, "What are you going to do?" He responded with a typical teen response, "I don't know." This was the first time he had EVER failed a class. I could tell he was bummed out about it. I asked, "Did you learn anything through all this?" He answered, "Yeh, get help sooner."
Lesson Learned!
With all we want to teach or preach to our kids, sometimes the best lessons learned are by allowing them to experience and get through their own personal challenges. Helping students understand their personality strengths as well as their weaknesses will help them become aware of how they can overcome their "blind spots" and achieve.
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Contact Teaching Our Youth for more information on Staff Meeting and Professional Development Workshops. Our sessions address understanding the predictable patterns of human behavior to better meet the motivational needs of staff and students. Reduce stress and increase productivity and academic achievement with these fun, informative and interactive sessions. We will provide skills that are easy to understand and simple to apply.
Re-energize and increase your staff moral today!
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For more ways and words to encourage those around us, whether students, co-workers, family, or friends, consider "A+ Ideas For Every Student's Success". A wonderful book with tips and strategies for working with students so you can be an encouragement and a blessing to all.
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May 13 -14, 2009
Register Today!
Click on link above for more information and registration.
Join us for a funfilled, informative, two days as we prepare and provide you with materials and insights to facilitate up to six Professional Development Workshops.
1.4 CEU's Available!
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