Body Smart is learning through hands on, physical experience. These workshops provide participants with a way to roll up their sleeves and really experience all their smart parts.

Body Smart
As a hands on learner, you want hands on experience, not just pictures or words.

Trainings available:
Ongoing consultation is available to help you implement these strategies in your own setting.

Maximize the Brain's Performance
In order to be a better teacher, you may need to better understand the process of learning. This workshop integrates current brain research from the 'inside out.' You will start with your own brain, how it thinks, how it process, how it remembers best. Your own experiences will be validated as you are taken through a series of activities designed to illustrate how and why the brain does certain things when learning is happening. Experience first hand how to improve learning and memory. You will be able to apply this workshop immediately. 

Participants will:
• Understand the difference between learning style and multiple intelligences
• See how sensory preferences, environment and learning climate effect thinking
• Reframe personal beliefs about intelligence
• Create a personal brain profile
• Develop the skill to identify a learner's break point
• Experience lessons that maximize brain performance
• Experiment with developing brain friendly lessons.

Strategy Banks based on Strength Based Assessment
Do you want to decrease the number of referrals to your CSE? Would you like to see more students progress faster? Current testing for students with disabilities focuses on the "problem", but in order to teach students to compensate so they can function in the world outside of school, they must discover and build on their strengths. Participants learn how to conduct a strength based interview and match intervention strategies to the student's strengths. This model increases student motivation and skill development. If you are a school psychologist, special educator, remediation specialist, tutor or teaching assistant or serve on a child study team, this training will be a valuable tool for you. Specific case studies will be used to model this powerful technique. Materials for this workshop include the resource book MI Strategy Banks available from the author or from Zephyr Press (@ $19 each).

Participants will:
• Create a personal cognitive profile to map personal learning
• Learn the components of a strength based interview
• Practice completion of a strength based interview
• Practice recognition of a learner's cognitive profile
• Develop the belief in 'learner as expert'
• Build strategy banks based on learner's strengths
• Apply this technique to a real case.

Inclusion: Making it Work through Collaboration
So here they are--what will you do with them? And what about the adults that come with them? If your focus is just on 'fix it' you will all be frustrated and ineffective. Instead, focus should be on the strengths, both yours and the other adults in your room. In this interactive workshop, teaching partners (teacher and aide, general educator and special educator, teacher and speech therapist, etc.) come together to work through a series of highly structured and involving activities that will empower you both to design an effective working partnership.

Participants will:
• Share personal strengths as a teacher/helper
• Identify personal beliefs related to effective classrooms
• Develop a goal for professional growth
• Understand the many different levels of collaboration
• Identify the elements of effective personal collaboration
• Create a working road map for your teammate and yourself.

Empower, Don't Enable- the 5 Keys to Empowerment
Do you have students suffering from learned helplessness. Here are ten tips to incorporate into your daily contacts with students, whether you are teacher, a parent, a tutor or an administrator. You will find immediate use for these specific strategies. Learn the tools so you can build an empowering community of learners. This program forms the basis for I can't to I can, Can I Make It? and the Family Empowerment Day.

The Keys to Empowerment or I can't to I can
You have the forms. You have the mandates and requirements. But do your students have the skills to master the C-DOS standards? Do they have a post secondary goal? Do they know what it will take to make it in the world outside of school? This workshop will get you thinking about the big picture and give you 39 specific strategies you can use in classes immediately so that your students with special needs can become responsible and independent learners and workers.

Participants will:
• learn the difference between enabling and empowering
• identify the skills students need in order to become empowered and 
   self-sufficient
• develop techniques to teach the skills of empowerment
• learn how to build an empowering classroom/work environment
• analyze the steps to systematically removing the 't' in can't.

About Ellen | Music Smart | Number Smart | Picture Smart | Word Smart | Self Smart (Strength Based Assessment) | People Smart | Body Smart (Workshop)

Ellen Arnold, Ed.D
940 Westfall Road Suite 2
Rochester, NY 14618
Phone: 585-256-1730
Email: EllenArnold@Arncraft.com