What would you like Alder Grove to offer for parent workshops?
Teacher group Ideas for workshop topics:
Discussions with facilitator....we (home school parents and teachers) are the experts, let's get involved and network
-Homeschooling multi-aged students in one family
-Motivation: How do you motivate a student to want to learn, work , complete learning assignments
- topics for older students ??????
- transitioning out of high school and into college and work....life after high school.....led by AGCS graduates....what did they do at AGCS that helped them after.....what do they wish they had done?
-chapter of the month..... Workshop series with follow up.
-New home-school Family workshop -How to use vendor forms and order materials…... beginning of next year ?????
Possible Presenters:
- Diana Nunes Mizer
-Calleagh Ferrara
-Wendy Schulze
-Jeff and Jen Writing
-Julie : Poetry
Possible Workshop topics found online just to inspire new ideas
Today's Hot Parent Workshop Topics
Here are the top 10 topics for workshops that parents want and need:
1. Self-care and balancing work and home
2. Developing self-esteem and confidence in children
3. Choosing an approach to discipline that works
4. Homework and music lesson challenges
5. Chores and developing responsibility
6. How to have a good marriage (or in some cases, a good divorce)
7. Bullying and how to foster compassion in children
8. Sibling rivalry and favoritism
9. Allowances and money
10. Temper tantrums :communication and conflict
Applying Brain Development Research to Your Child's World
Are We “Over” Doing It: How Much is Too Much? New evidence suggests that in our efforts to give children the best, we end up over-doing it and unknowingly create some negative consequences for them. Many of today’s parents are:
Through entertaining demonstrations, this workshop shows parents these common parenting traps. Parents will understand the reasons they are falling into the traps and the cost to kids. Parents will learn what they really need to give their children to be successful in life. These include: time, attention, values, coping skills, acceptance of feelings, limits, responsibility and much more. This workshop offers parents tools and strategies for each of these areas so they can feel confident and prepared for today’s challenges.
Decoding the Language of Your Child’s Behavior One of the greatest challenges of parenting is when children exhibit difficult, demanding or out-of-control behavior. When this happens, parents typically become reactive, and this leads to a negative cycle that leaves the entire family feeling miserable. This workshop will help parents understand, prevent and manage these challenges. We will provide practical, hands-on tips and creative approaches aimed at helping parents navigate some of the toughest challenges of parenting. This workshop will help you:
Cool, Calm and Connected One of the biggest challenges of parenting is staying calm when children push our buttons. When parents are at the end of their rope, they are more likely to react in angry, shaming, belittling or punitive ways. Then, parents are left feeling upset or guilty about the way they reacted. When parents react in unhelpful ways, children may feel shame, inadequacy, fear, revenge, or anger. Reactive parenting creates a lose-lose situation in the home. This workshop will help parents understand their reactive nature and provide ideas for how to transform it. Learn to take responsibility for your stress by becoming intentional and conscious so that you can respond rather than react to your child’s difficult and annoying behavior. Parents will:
Parenting the Gifted Child 101 Parents of gifted children are well aware of the unique challenges, stresses and joys that come with raising a gifted child. Experts know that a high IQ and test scores alone is no guarantee for the well-being, happiness or success of gifted children. This workshop offers parents practical tools to deepen their relationship with their gifted child and help meet their complex social-emotional needs. In this fun and interactive workshop parents will learn:
Parenting the Gifted Child: Building Cooperative and Respectful Sibling and Peer Relationships Parenting a gifted child has unique joys, challenges and stresses. Experts know that a high IQ and test scores is no guarantee for happiness or success. Navigating sibling and peer relationships can be especially difficult for some gifted children. In this workshop, parents will learn strategies for nurturing their gifted child’s EQ so that they are better equipped to form positive relationships with siblings and peers. This workshop will help you:
“Please Don’t Leave”: Helping Children with Separation Starting school, preschool or day care is a major milestone for both children and parents. A child’s first separation often creates feelings of excitement, anxiety, fear and stress. Parents often have mixed feelings as well and this ambivalence can add to a child’s hesitancy or reluctance to separate. This workshop will help parents prepare themselves and their child for the separation. This workshop offers guidelines for parents to help the separation experience go smoothly. Parents will leave knowing that what they do will either help or hinder the separation process. In addition, strategies will be shared for helping parents who may be struggling with separating from their child.
What’s So Big About Self Esteem? Self-esteem is one of the most talked about concepts in parenting and education today. Many parents equate good self-esteem with “happiness” and therefore, spend much time and effort trying to make their children happy. This workshop will define what self-esteem really means while offering specific tips and strategies for nurturing this important quality in your children. Also, the myths of self-esteem will be debunked as they relate to common traps that many parents fall into while trying to produce a “happy” child. Come learn the essential ingredients for fostering true self-esteem.
Bully-Proof Your Child Many children today are teased, intimidated, harassed, excluded, cyber-bullied and hurt by other kids. Bullying is a serious problem and needs adult intervention. When children are bullied, it affects everyone: the target, the bully and the bystanders. This workshop explores the complex issues involved with bullying and arms parents with prevention and intervention strategies. Specific topics include:
Conscious Parenting: Become the Parent You Want to BeHandling the Naysayers and Inspiring Confidence in Your Decision to Homeschool
How to Use Blogs to Improve Your HomeschoolLearning styles
The Advantages of Becoming a Homeschool Blogger
Are Boys Aggressive, Are Girls Mean?
More and more research indicates that understanding the differences between boys and girls is an important component of good parenting. Rather than adopting the "boys will be boys" attitude, however, parents must become gender sensitive -- what are the real differences between boy behavior and girl behavior? What behavior is acceptable, what is not? And when boys are aggressive, and girls are mean, it's helpful for parents to be fluent in the language of children and capable of translating behavior into words.
Battling The Bedtime Blues
If battling your child at bedtime has you blue, we'll put you in the pink. We'll discuss children who don't want to stay in bed, who get out of the bed during the night, and who express fear in conjunction with bedtime. We have an extremely high success rate in getting kids to sleep (at a reasonable hour, and through the night!) from 8 months old on so you won't want to miss this one!
Best Buddies: Helping your Children Form Positive Friendships
Many parents express intense concern over the way their children treat and are treated by friends. From "my child's so bossy, I'm worried that she'll never have any friends," to "my child doesnt stand up for himself, he always does what his friends want," and including "my child came home crying because his friends wouldn't let him join the soccer game," children's social lives, the form that they take, and the way in which they develop often worry parents.
Beyond Sugar: Getting Kids to Eat Healthy Foods without Power Struggles
Eating disorders, obesity and diabetes are on the rise in this country. It's no wonder then that many parents despair when they see their child choosing junk foods loaded with sugar. Yet when parents intervene, they often find themselves engaged in a power struggle with their child that makes the problem worse rather than better. This workshop helps parents feed their children in healthy ways.
PLANNING YOUR HOMESCHOOL MENU (Mini Workshop)
*The four main brain food groups
*Selecting your main courses
*Healthy snacks & comfort food
MATH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
*Parts of math speech & sentence structure
*Early math concepts
*Higher math & problem solving
BUILDING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
*What is critical thinking?
*Ladder of thinking
*Thinking in the subjects
ASSESSING YOUR CHILD- MAKING THE GRADE
*State requirements
*3 methods
*Choosing & using a method
HOMESCHOOLING THE STRONG WILLED CHILD
*Characteristics of a strong-willed child
*Suggestions for teaching
CREATING YOUR OWN UNIT / THEME STUDIES
*Writing & implementing a successful unit study
*Ideas
HOMESCHOOL 101- HOW TO GET STARTED
*Options & freedoms
*Resources
*Legalities
*Support
*Organization
TEACHING HISTORY IN HOMESCHOOL
*3 things to remember
*Methods & approaches
*Use the internet
EXPLORING SCIENCE IN THE HOMESCHOOL
*Areas of science
*Things to remember
STUDY SKILLS
*Learning styles
*Ideas
L.A.P.(Learning Activity Project) BOOKS
*What are they?
*How to do them
*Samples & Practice
Teacher group Ideas for workshop topics:
Discussions with facilitator....we (home school parents and teachers) are the experts, let's get involved and network
-Homeschooling multi-aged students in one family
-Motivation: How do you motivate a student to want to learn, work , complete learning assignments
- topics for older students ??????
- transitioning out of high school and into college and work....life after high school.....led by AGCS graduates....what did they do at AGCS that helped them after.....what do they wish they had done?
-chapter of the month..... Workshop series with follow up.
-New home-school Family workshop -How to use vendor forms and order materials…... beginning of next year ?????
Possible Presenters:
- Diana Nunes Mizer
-Calleagh Ferrara
-Wendy Schulze
-Jeff and Jen Writing
-Julie : Poetry
Possible Workshop topics found online just to inspire new ideas
Today's Hot Parent Workshop Topics
Here are the top 10 topics for workshops that parents want and need:
1. Self-care and balancing work and home
2. Developing self-esteem and confidence in children
3. Choosing an approach to discipline that works
4. Homework and music lesson challenges
5. Chores and developing responsibility
6. How to have a good marriage (or in some cases, a good divorce)
7. Bullying and how to foster compassion in children
8. Sibling rivalry and favoritism
9. Allowances and money
10. Temper tantrums :communication and conflict
Applying Brain Development Research to Your Child's World
- Growing Creative Thinkers: We Do Have an Effect"
- What is My Child Learning?" The Value of Play
- Building Physical Confidence in Children
- Transform negative “I can’t” thinking into positive “Let me try that again” thinking
- Create a loving and connected relationship with their child
- Accept and acknowledge their child’s feelings
- Be honest with their children rather than protect them from people or situations that may be uncomfortable
Are We “Over” Doing It: How Much is Too Much? New evidence suggests that in our efforts to give children the best, we end up over-doing it and unknowingly create some negative consequences for them. Many of today’s parents are:
- Over-involved in their children’s lives
- Over-indulging by buying too much
- Over-scheduling with too many activities
- Over-pressuring kids by wanting them to succeed and be superstars
- Over-praising in an effort to help them have good self-esteem
- Over-stimulating by allowing excessive time on computers, videos, electronic games, and cell phones
- Over-focusing on children’s happiness
Through entertaining demonstrations, this workshop shows parents these common parenting traps. Parents will understand the reasons they are falling into the traps and the cost to kids. Parents will learn what they really need to give their children to be successful in life. These include: time, attention, values, coping skills, acceptance of feelings, limits, responsibility and much more. This workshop offers parents tools and strategies for each of these areas so they can feel confident and prepared for today’s challenges.
Decoding the Language of Your Child’s Behavior One of the greatest challenges of parenting is when children exhibit difficult, demanding or out-of-control behavior. When this happens, parents typically become reactive, and this leads to a negative cycle that leaves the entire family feeling miserable. This workshop will help parents understand, prevent and manage these challenges. We will provide practical, hands-on tips and creative approaches aimed at helping parents navigate some of the toughest challenges of parenting. This workshop will help you:
- Understand what causes children to misbehave
- Eliminate power struggles
- Encourage responsibility
- Discipline without yelling
- Take responsibility for your reactive behavior
- Minimize hassles, tantrums and tears
- Increase connection and cooperation
- Effectively set limits and utilize logical consequences
- Feel calmer, more confident and enjoy being a parent
Cool, Calm and Connected One of the biggest challenges of parenting is staying calm when children push our buttons. When parents are at the end of their rope, they are more likely to react in angry, shaming, belittling or punitive ways. Then, parents are left feeling upset or guilty about the way they reacted. When parents react in unhelpful ways, children may feel shame, inadequacy, fear, revenge, or anger. Reactive parenting creates a lose-lose situation in the home. This workshop will help parents understand their reactive nature and provide ideas for how to transform it. Learn to take responsibility for your stress by becoming intentional and conscious so that you can respond rather than react to your child’s difficult and annoying behavior. Parents will:
- Examine their beliefs about discipline
- Discover tips to become calm and stay calm when stressed
- Learn to respond vs. react
- Learn specific strategies for teaching children to self-calm
- Set limits effectively
- Explore discipline strategies that teach rather than punish
Parenting the Gifted Child 101 Parents of gifted children are well aware of the unique challenges, stresses and joys that come with raising a gifted child. Experts know that a high IQ and test scores alone is no guarantee for the well-being, happiness or success of gifted children. This workshop offers parents practical tools to deepen their relationship with their gifted child and help meet their complex social-emotional needs. In this fun and interactive workshop parents will learn:
- Strategies for dealing with challenging temperament traits typically found in gifted children such as emotional intensity and sensitivity
- How to handle and embrace an introverted child
- Strategies for handling the challenges of perfectionism
- Effective limit setting
- Ways to minimize power struggles, tantrums, and meltdowns
- Tips for nurturing your gifted child’s passions
- How to foster emotional intelligence
- Strategies for intervening when gifted children struggle in social situations
- How to help their gifted child develop problem-solving skills with peers
Parenting the Gifted Child: Building Cooperative and Respectful Sibling and Peer Relationships Parenting a gifted child has unique joys, challenges and stresses. Experts know that a high IQ and test scores is no guarantee for happiness or success. Navigating sibling and peer relationships can be especially difficult for some gifted children. In this workshop, parents will learn strategies for nurturing their gifted child’s EQ so that they are better equipped to form positive relationships with siblings and peers. This workshop will help you:
- Avoid common parenting traps in raising gifted children
- Strengthen the relationships among the siblings in your family
- Gain insight into your family dynamics that will help you lessen sibling rivalry
- Teach your gifted child to form positive peer relationships and to understand the qualities of a good friend
- Effectively support your child through social struggles
- Teach your child to manage and solve social problems
“Please Don’t Leave”: Helping Children with Separation Starting school, preschool or day care is a major milestone for both children and parents. A child’s first separation often creates feelings of excitement, anxiety, fear and stress. Parents often have mixed feelings as well and this ambivalence can add to a child’s hesitancy or reluctance to separate. This workshop will help parents prepare themselves and their child for the separation. This workshop offers guidelines for parents to help the separation experience go smoothly. Parents will leave knowing that what they do will either help or hinder the separation process. In addition, strategies will be shared for helping parents who may be struggling with separating from their child.
What’s So Big About Self Esteem? Self-esteem is one of the most talked about concepts in parenting and education today. Many parents equate good self-esteem with “happiness” and therefore, spend much time and effort trying to make their children happy. This workshop will define what self-esteem really means while offering specific tips and strategies for nurturing this important quality in your children. Also, the myths of self-esteem will be debunked as they relate to common traps that many parents fall into while trying to produce a “happy” child. Come learn the essential ingredients for fostering true self-esteem.
Bully-Proof Your Child Many children today are teased, intimidated, harassed, excluded, cyber-bullied and hurt by other kids. Bullying is a serious problem and needs adult intervention. When children are bullied, it affects everyone: the target, the bully and the bystanders. This workshop explores the complex issues involved with bullying and arms parents with prevention and intervention strategies. Specific topics include:
- Talking with your child about bullying
- Talking with your child about friendship struggles
- Helping your child develop positive, safe and healthy relationships.
- Warning signs that your child may be a target of bullying or be engaging in bully behavior
- Steps to take if your child is bullying
- Helping the bullied child heal
- Empowering the child who witnesses bullying behavior
Conscious Parenting: Become the Parent You Want to BeHandling the Naysayers and Inspiring Confidence in Your Decision to Homeschool
How to Use Blogs to Improve Your HomeschoolLearning styles
The Advantages of Becoming a Homeschool Blogger
Are Boys Aggressive, Are Girls Mean?
More and more research indicates that understanding the differences between boys and girls is an important component of good parenting. Rather than adopting the "boys will be boys" attitude, however, parents must become gender sensitive -- what are the real differences between boy behavior and girl behavior? What behavior is acceptable, what is not? And when boys are aggressive, and girls are mean, it's helpful for parents to be fluent in the language of children and capable of translating behavior into words.
Battling The Bedtime Blues
If battling your child at bedtime has you blue, we'll put you in the pink. We'll discuss children who don't want to stay in bed, who get out of the bed during the night, and who express fear in conjunction with bedtime. We have an extremely high success rate in getting kids to sleep (at a reasonable hour, and through the night!) from 8 months old on so you won't want to miss this one!
Best Buddies: Helping your Children Form Positive Friendships
Many parents express intense concern over the way their children treat and are treated by friends. From "my child's so bossy, I'm worried that she'll never have any friends," to "my child doesnt stand up for himself, he always does what his friends want," and including "my child came home crying because his friends wouldn't let him join the soccer game," children's social lives, the form that they take, and the way in which they develop often worry parents.
Beyond Sugar: Getting Kids to Eat Healthy Foods without Power Struggles
Eating disorders, obesity and diabetes are on the rise in this country. It's no wonder then that many parents despair when they see their child choosing junk foods loaded with sugar. Yet when parents intervene, they often find themselves engaged in a power struggle with their child that makes the problem worse rather than better. This workshop helps parents feed their children in healthy ways.
PLANNING YOUR HOMESCHOOL MENU (Mini Workshop)
*The four main brain food groups
*Selecting your main courses
*Healthy snacks & comfort food
MATH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
*Parts of math speech & sentence structure
*Early math concepts
*Higher math & problem solving
BUILDING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
*What is critical thinking?
*Ladder of thinking
*Thinking in the subjects
ASSESSING YOUR CHILD- MAKING THE GRADE
*State requirements
*3 methods
*Choosing & using a method
HOMESCHOOLING THE STRONG WILLED CHILD
*Characteristics of a strong-willed child
*Suggestions for teaching
CREATING YOUR OWN UNIT / THEME STUDIES
*Writing & implementing a successful unit study
*Ideas
HOMESCHOOL 101- HOW TO GET STARTED
*Options & freedoms
*Resources
*Legalities
*Support
*Organization
TEACHING HISTORY IN HOMESCHOOL
*3 things to remember
*Methods & approaches
*Use the internet
EXPLORING SCIENCE IN THE HOMESCHOOL
*Areas of science
*Things to remember
STUDY SKILLS
*Learning styles
*Ideas
L.A.P.(Learning Activity Project) BOOKS
*What are they?
*How to do them
*Samples & Practice