Mike Muir
Motivating Our Most Disengaged Students
One of the biggest challenges facing teachers is their disengaged and unmotivated students. Not only are they not learning to their potential, but disengaged students can become classroom discipline problems. What are educators to do? What actions can teachers take to re-engage these learners? How can we motivate students (create the conditions for self-motivation)? This session will focus on six high-impact motivation strategies.
Sustaining Positive Relationships With Students
The middle-level philosophy has tremendous power. When understood, embraced, and utilized, we can reach and teach young adolescents in profoundly responsive ways. Since nothing is as practical as a good theory, the middle-level theory may just be the answer we need.
Personalized Professional Learning With Microcredentials
What’s all the fuss about micro-credentials and digital badging? What are they and how do I earn them? What do they have to do with professional development and personalizing learning for educators? What are some educator micro-credential programs currently available? How can you tell a real micro-credential program from one just using the term “badges”? Attend this session to discover the answers to these and other questions about micro-credentials!
