The Teacher of Children with Special Needs Survival Guide: Techniques that will enable you to motivate and empower your students to succeed!

Many teachers find it difficult to motivate and work with children with special needs.  Children with special needs can be a challenge both in the mainstream classroom, the resource room, and in one-on-one tutorials.  This challenge is magnified when in addition to learning disabilities the child also has emotional and/or behavioral issues.  The situation becomes even more problematic when the child needs drill-type practice of basic skills that can be tedious and uninteresting.

This workshop will show you how to infuse an atmosphere of enthusiasm into your instruction to children with special needs.  Participants will leave the workshop with the skills to motivate even the most challenging students.  The workshop will address the following major points:

• Creating and maintaining a proper attitude from the teacher's perspective.
• Helping children who have attention issues to keep their focus.
• The workshop will present a wide range of tools and instructional techniques that can be implemented in various settings.  These tools will enable the teacher to empower the student to cooperate and succeed in an enjoyable and motivating way.
• Among the various techniques that will be presented, several out-of-the-box techniques will also be demonstrated, such as miming a lesson and learning in the dark by flashlight.