Designs For Progress provides teaching life skills curriculum for teaching at-risk, corrections and adult basic education students. We offer innovative methods for Teacher professional development, character education and reentry programs. Life skills and character education lesson plans are incorporated the student workbooks and the Instructor Resources Guides. We also provide a series of teacher professional development programs to help teachers reach at-risk students.

If you work with at-risk juveniles, adults in basic education or GED classes, inmates, or parolees, you know that at-risk students need more than mathematics and reading. They need teaching life skills curriculum or Teacher professional development. Click on the headings in the maroon band at the top of the page to see a listing of the materials we provide for students and professionals.

Student materials are designed to improve self-esteem, encourage positive changes, help students take responsibility for their actions and develop a plan for their lives. All student materials are completely REPRODUCIBLE. Staff development programs give teachers tools for teaching life skills curriculum and Teacher professional development.

PowerPoint Presentations on CD

Categories | Staff Development | PowerPoint Presentations on CD

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Foundations for Character Education   Product Code: SDCD 3001  Attitudes, character, and social skills are not set at birth. As the first in a series of thirteen staff development modules, Foundations for Character Education explores reasons for teaching character education. It also discusses current brain research to explain why emotions - the affective domain - is the cornerstone of all education. This training also offers: Six steps to teaching in the affective domain. Help overcoming barriers to character education programs. Ideas to help educators integrate character education into their classrooms. Explanations of methods and modalities that can be used to effectively reach at-risk students. Presentation content: 25 slides   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	Where Do We Start?: Curriculum Planning for Character Education   Product Code: SDCD 3002  Curriculm selection and design can be a frustrating task for educators, yet it is an important task in the overall program. Without good curriculum design, valuable effort, time and money can be wasted. This staff development module will assist you in laying a strong foundation for a successful character education program.   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
Pygmalion Is Alive and Well: Positive Expectation in the Classroom   Product Code: SDCD 3003  "One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think." Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism This staff development module helps educators understand how to use positive expectation for themselves, the process of education, and most of all for their students.   Presentation content: 21 slides   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	The Educational Environment: Managing the Classroom   Product Code: SDCD 3004  This staff development module focuses on the physical, social/emotional, and intellectual aspects of the classroom environment. It helps teachers establish a caring community and a rich learning setting and gives them suggestions for maximizing physical, social, and emotional factors to influence the attitudes of their students.   Presentation content: 17 slides   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
From the Outside In: Reinforcement and Character Education   Product Code: SDCD 3005  Students can't display responsible, caring actions until they are self-motivated. This staff development module will help teachers identify the keys to moving reinforcements from extrinsic to intrinsic. The presentation discusses the implications of using positive and negative reinforcement and offers suggestions for implimenting a program climate of positive reinforcement in classrooms.   Presentation content: 25 slides   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	Walking the Walk: Modeling for Change   Product Code: SDCD 3006  How many times when you were growing up have you heard someone say, "Do as I say, not as I do"? Those people know that students, children, and subordinates tend to copy behaviors modeled by teachers, parents, or bosses. Like it or not, you are in your students' spot light. This staff development module discusses what we tell our students to do, and what we model. Planning what educators model increases the effectiveness and positive outcomes demonstrated by teachers.   Presentation content: 26 slides   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
Finding the Target: Goal Setting and Character Education   Product Code: SDCD 3007  This staff development session will help educators motivate students to set their own realistic goals and to reach them. Personal goals become a driving force when students are taught to direct their own learning.   Presentation content: 29 slides   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	I Do Better When I Move: Activity-Based Character Education   Product Code: SDCS3008  Activity-based learning gives students a chance to be involved and to apply what they have learned. Peer tutoring, service learning, games, and other activity-based teaching are just a few of the methods discussed in this staff development session. As well as learning how to use these methods successfully, you will also learn the relationship between teamwork, respect, and self-worth.   Presentation content: 22 slides   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
The Pen Is Mightier...: Writing and Character Education   Product Code: SDCD3009  Writing is an important academic skill. It is also an effective tool for developing character. This module explores the use of portfolios, newsletters, journals, poetry, and scrapbooks.   Presentation content: 37 slides   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	A Different Perspective: Visual Arts and Character Education   Product Code: SDCD3010  Educators often teach with verbal commnication, but the brain largely thinks in images. In this staff development module educators can review methods of non-verbal communication that will reach their students more effectively.   Presentation content: 21 slides   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
The Spoken Word: Participation, Discussion, and Debate   Product Code: SDCD 3011  Students spend the majority of their time in class learning to read and write, but in real life those skills are only used to communicate 23% of the time. Real life communication is based on speaking, listening, and interpreting body language. This staff development module helps teachers look at ways to integrate spoken language into the curriculum. The presentation explores ways to control discussion in the classroom and to use it as tool to foster self-confidence, teamwork, and respect for others.   Presentation content: 33 slides   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	Lights, Camera, ACTION: Drama and Character Education   Product Code: SDCD 3012  The last several generations have been reared first with television, then videos and computer generated images. They are used to drama and being entertained. Using drama in the classroom can engage emotions and help keep students focused. This staff development session looks at six different ways drama can be used in the classroom to engage at-risk students and to teach social and emotional intelligence.   Presentation content: 20 slides   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
Figuring Things Out: Problem Solving and Character Education   Product Code: SDCD 3013  At-risk students need practical ways and tools to help them solve problems and make good decisions. This staff development module looks at how to use the case study method to help students solve problems. It discusses the six steps in the case study method and gives examples of activities that will help students make logical decisions.   Presentation content: 16 slides   Price: $95.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty

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