Empower Your Students...and Yourself!

Name: Empower Your Students...and Yourself!
Rating: 4.7 (24 reviews)

How Sharing Power in the Classroom Can Increase Your Joy, Improve Engagement and Lighten Your Load

Last updated 4/2024

English

What you'll learn

Identify ways to empower student voice in the classroom, including communication, connection, mindset and curriculum strategies
Develop a mindset of shared power that helps increase joy in the classroom and improves behaviour and academic outcomes
Avoid traps and time-wasting activities in sharing power with young people
Feel empowered, joyful, productive and envigorated in the classroom

10 sections • 34 lectures • 2h 23m total length

Introduction to the Course2:37
Understand the course and meet me - your fabulously positive teaching instructor!
Who is this course for?2:16
Identify who will benefit from this course - and what it can offer for you
Course Map2:45
Take a look at the course structure and see where we are going
What is Democratic Education?8:36
Homework1:04
Practical 5 minute tasks to help cement understanding of the week's content

Topic 2.1 Why? How Sharing Power Benefits Students5:05
Understand the academic, social and emotional benefits that sharing power brings to students
Topic 2.2 Why? How Sharing Power Benefits YOU5:31
Understand how sharing power will benefit you, making your life as a teacher in the space easier and more joyful
Topic 2.3 Sharing Power Leads to Better Decisions3:10
Understand how sharing power leads to better decisions, and how those decisions will stick in the long-term
Topic 2.4 Homework for Week 22:13
Practical 5 minute tasks to help cement understanding of the week's content

Topic 3.1 How to Share Power in the Space: Practical Strategies1:24
Identify practical, easily actionable strategies to share power in the classroom
Topic 3.2 Choices in the Curriculum: The Tools7:00
Use various tools to increase choices in the curriculum
Topic 3.3 Sharing Power Through Collaborative Rules and Agreements8:08
Topic 3.4 Conflict Transformation: Sharing Power Whilst Solving Disputes5:47
Topic 3.5 Week Three Homework1:18
Practical 5 minute tasks to help cement understanding of the week's content

Topic 4.1 Connection1:40
Understand that connection is the heart of all teaching, and learn how to prioritise it to empower your students and yourself
Topic 4.2 Valuing Their Time, Asking Their Opinions2:08
Utilise practical strategies to value time and make the best use of it in the classroom
Topic 4.3 Recognising Students as Experts1:51
Identify ways you can recognise students as experts and use this to enhance connection and relationships
Topic 4.4 Building Relationships and Balancing Challenge4:20
Learn how to delicately balance when to encourage challenge and when to support comfort
Topic 4.5 Homework2:02
Practical 5 minute tasks to help cement understanding of the week's content

Topic 5.1 Communication: Patterns and Tools4:12
Explore patterns and tools of communication that will help you in the classroom
Topic 5.2 Communication: Key Phrases2:33
Use helpful phrases that will cut to the heart of matters and efficiently improve student empowerment and communication
Topic 5.3 Communication and Dialogue: Not Just One-Way5:16
Ensure that communication goes two ways and increase opportunities for students to be heard
Topic 5.4 Homework0:43
Practical 5 minute tasks to help cement understanding of the week's content

You found this page because you are, or know, a teacher. Congratulations!

You are one of the hardest-working people on the planet.

Teachers are AMAZING. If the world was run by teachers, it would be a better place.

BUT

Teachers are tired, often overwhelmed and stretched. We need to take control of our joy.

We need to innovate and expand our strategies so we can improve education, not just for the children but for OURSELVES.

My course helps teachers empower students so both teachers and students lead lives of purpose and joy in the classroom.

What's in the course?

10 weeks of fun, accessible video content that includes:

Foundations: What is democratic education?
The Benefits of Sharing Power - the Why PLUS the HOW (super practical areas and ways to do it)
Connection
Communication
Mindset
How to include YOUR ideas and work within whatever system or school you are in
Traps to Avoid (that will make your life easier and smoother)
Practical, five-minute weekly tasks that will improve your day-to-day experiences
A whole lot of joy, intentionality and FUN. This course will make your life as a teacher easier, as well as expose you to new ideas and possibilities that will envigorate your classroom and your life.

Classroom teachers, parents, youth workers and counsellors who wish to learn more about sharing power with young people