The Center of Influence: The Active Classroom with Ron Nash

February 5, 2009, Blue Ridge Community College’s Plecker Center, Weyer’s Cave Campus

An extension of Ron Nash’s popular concurrent session at VASCD’s 2007 Annual Conference, this highly interactive workshop shows teachers how to manage process and build relationships in order to maximize learning. At the heart of this seminar is the belief that on the way to understanding, students must see it, hear it, grapple with it, talk about it, question it, and experience it if learning is to have any permanence.

The agenda for the day includes five segments:

• The Center of Influence (shifting the work to the students)
• Putting Lecture in Its Place (movement and interaction)
• Hitting the Right Notes (music in the classroom)
• Influencing the Flow (managing process)
• Influencing the Climate (building rapport and relationships)

Lace up your sneakers and open your mind; get ready to take home tools and strategies you can use on Monday.

About Ron: Since receiving his B.S in Ed. and M.A. from Clarion University (Pennsylvania), Ron Nash’s professional career has encompassed teaching at the middle and high school levels, as well as coordinating curriculum and facilitating professional development for instructional and classified employees of the Virginia Beach City Public Schools. Over the past decade, Ron has trained thousands of teachers, teacher assistants, substitute teachers and administrators in such varied topics as presentation techniques, classroom management, relationship building, instructional strategies and process management and has presented at many regional, state, and national conferences. His book, The Active Classroom: Practical Strategies for Involving Students in the Learning Process” is in bookstores now.

Target Audience: K-12 classroom teachers, specialists, and administrators.

Ron’s web site: http://www.ronnashandassociates.com