You don’t have to teach very long before you are faced with the challenge of helping a slow student get his work finished or desperately trying to find more work for a fast student. But what do you do when you have both in the same class?

This workshop is for board members who actually have been outdistance by the ones they are to manage, the teacher (or at least perceive this to be the case). If you are feeling intimidated and insignificant, this discussion will offer some perspective for maintaining mutual appreciation and respect throughout the team.

Is English your favorite subject or your greatest obstacle? Jonathan offers general tips for teaching language, including some aspects of language teaching that are different from teaching other subjects. Jonathan then teaches a sample English class, followed by discussion of his technique.

Perhaps your manners and procedures are excellent..... and then again, maybe not. Do you lead or follow your teachers? Are school board's children the first to know plans and board decisions? How can the chairman relate meaningfully with sister teachers? What principles guide the harmonizing of Teacher, Parent, and Board perspectives? Strive for etiquette that builds relationship strength and harmony.

What provides perfect, sure, right, and pure guidance for the teacher and her class? The speakers reflect on the power and life in God's word.

Can you control your bite, the bitterness that rises up when students act out? Mervin urges us to cultivate the rule of temperance: to stop shooting with words.

History class should be the most exciting time of the day, right? Whose problem is it if your students dread it? This workshop will take a look at how to capture your students hearts and attention in History class and what the power of telling a good story can accomplish. We will also spend some time with a sample lesson from the Living History Threads curriculum. Touching our students hearts with stories is key to unlocking their memory.

Awareness of the common pitfalls is the first step to staying out of them. What might trip up your teaching? Derek reviews the possibilities: faulty self-concepts, ignorance of technique, poor planning, inneffective discipline, and moral failure. How can you avoid these pitfalls?

Does competitive debate have a place in conservative Christian schools? Perhaps it’s debatable! Let’s take a look at what it could do for our students and how it could be guided. What character could it build? What skills could it develop?

How and when should I punish? Does the punishment fit the crime? Is punishment the same as discipline? What is discipline? Am I being consistent? Am I being effective?

What does it mean to be an American? A Christian? An American Christian? A Christian American? The goal of this class is to explore what it has meant and means to be “salt and light” within the fascinating combinations of opportunity, tragedy, and resilience that is the American story.

Is your talking communicating? Do you need a brush-up on your communication skills? What about when someone else in the relationship wants to talk and I don’t really feel like talking?

This workshop will focus on three principles that help us educate dyslexics and other challenged learners.

You have a lot to manage, and you're tired. Will you fade into the night, or climb toward the dying light? Mervin urges us to give everything we have to be effective in the kingdom.