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How do you love the child who constantly pushes the boundaries and does not mesh into your ideal for a smoothly-functioning classroom? The goal of this breakout is to inspire and renew our love for, commitment to, and understanding of the challenging student. Led from the perspective of a 3rd grade teacher with 20 students, this breakout will focus on the needs of elementary teachers.

High school history class can offer the student a deeper understanding of the human condition across the ages. Engage with my reflections on teaching high school history as it relates to content scope and instruction. I have taught high school history at Terre Hill Mennonite High School for five years.

Every successful teacher has personal and private habits and practices. These may vary but they stand behind and before success in the classroom. Important questions to be explored are: What are these habits and practices? How can one adopt, internalize, and make such habits and practices a part of daily life?

In elementary grades, it is easy to overlook the fictional elements of story. We tend to focus only on the important skills of comprehension and word building. This breakout is designed to aid your reading class by expanding your teaching strategies in emphasizing the fictional elements of a story. You will participate with some hands-on activities that will give you ideas to implement in the reading class with any reading curriculum.

Because of current parenting trends, fresh attention is needed to encourage parents to ensure their children are getting the solid social, emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual foundation they need in preparation for first grade. Lacking that foundation, students are ill-equipped to learn, and teachers cannot do in a few weeks in the classroom what should have been done over the last six years. This breakout provides lower grade teachers and principals with information and recommendat

As teachers, we can either accentuate our students� learning and behavior needs or we can support and empower them to rise above their challenges. This breakout will explore a rationale for classroom accommodations, including when and how to appropriately implement them. Specific accommodations for common student challenges will be discussed from the perspective of an elementary teacher of 20 students.

The metonymic adage �the pen is mightier than the sword� is rarely true without some purposeful effort. How can we make our writing and the writing of our students more effective? This session will be geared toward middle school and high school teachers, and presented from the perspective of 34 years in a high school English classroom. Ideas from the participants are welcome.

What do parents expect of their children's teacher? What does the board want? How does the church see your role? Anthony encourages us to place the vocation of teaching in its context within the community.

In the third session of Texts for Teachers, Steven focuses on two more central ideas teachers should nurture in the classroom. The Lord is one, and all the world is His.

What should our goals be as Anabaptist churches? How should we live? How does the school fit in?

Teachers are professionals. You have a job to do. But when you've successfully made it through the English book, your job is not done. Relationships with those around you are vital to your success and to theirs. Anthony encourages us to consider the way we relate to students, co-teachers, patrons, and the church community.

Love the Lord with your all. Love your neighbor as yourself. These commands capture the essence of godly living. How do we nurture love for God and neighbor in the classroom?

Why can’t Johnny focus on his lessons? Why does he blow up in anger over minor provocations? In Part 1, we will explore how trauma alters brain development and chemistry. This topic is especially helpful for those relating to foster and adopted children. Becky Sue enjoyed eleven years of teaching, four of which were in Honduras teaching at the school next to the Good Shepherd Children’s Home

A broad overview of geological deposits and processes forming the landscapes of Pennsylvania and surrounding areas, explained in context of the Genesis flood. For middle-to upper-grade teachers who wish to connect earth sciences to the students’ local landforms from a biblical framework. Presented by an avocational geologist with 20+ years pursuing geological interests.

What are the foundational texts that carry us into the classroom and the world? Steven reflects on the power of God's promises to His people.

Does your school develop students who love their local church? In the classroom, your students can polish their ideas for perfecting congregational practice, but they won't thrive until they embrace the congregation, says Matthew.

If the gospel is our chief concern, why worry about academics? Matthew calls for schools that seek excellence in everything they do as a part of obeying the gospel.

Since we care so much about doing everything well… we shouldn't try to do everything. Lest we burn out in our efforts to serve students, parents, and the church, Anthony urges us to consider our limitations and find ways to manage the demands on our time and emotional energy.

In the final sessino of Texts for Teachers, Steven examines the importance of fear in teaching children.