Training

Awareness Presentations

Awareness workshops are effective for introducing your staff to the concept of 4MAT and encouraging them to become involved in the complete 4MAT Training Process. Available in timeframes from 1-2 hours to 2 days.

Instructional Best Practices

About Learning is proud to introduce the new, streamlined 4MAT Program. This new program integrates our latest ideas and advancements on 4MAT Training into a comprehensive and complete training delivery program. The complete practitioner training comprises the following training modules, with each module comprising seven hours of instruction.

Learner Differences and their impact on instruction
The Brain: Optimizing the Learning Environment
The 4MAT Process of Instruction
Conceptualizing Instruction: The Foundation for Learning
The Natural Cycle of Learning
Assessment

The complete program can be delivered in a wide variety of formats, including online, blended (online and on-site combined), or site based. In addition, you can also attend About Learning public training sessions to qualify to become certified to teach this program in your own organization.

Differentiating Instruction with 4MAT

This new 1-day workshop has Inclusion strategies built into the Differentiated Instruction work around the cycle. This workshop combines the best practices for differentiating instruction on the 4MAT cycle with the best practices of inclusion classrooms. The match with the 4MAT model is more proof that if you are designing and using 4MAT in your classrooms, you are ensuring best practices are being used. Please call your client consultant for more details.

Administrator Training: The Power of Connections

The purpose of this seminar is to acquaint administrators with learning theory including the research on style. This six-hour module is powerful tool for raising understanding of the diverse ways in which people learn, how best to teach to all these differences, and how traditional schooling has failed to assure success for all. Administrators who attend this workshop will:

Enhance awareness of and appreciation for diversity
Understand the legitimacy of style preferences
See the possibilities for use at multiple communication levels
Understand the implications for organizational learning and the leveraging of diversity in organizations

The Principal as Instructional Leader

This 12-hour workshop was created for The Chicago Public Schools Office of Principal Professional Development. It is designed to help new and current principals develop dynamic buildings with instruction at the core. Principals will:

Understand the importance of learning, teaching and leadership styles
Develop concrete strategies for working with teachers to raise instruction to another level
Learn to work with diverse teachers using case studies and active problem solving
Develop strategies for creating and maintaining a vision centered around learners.

At the conclusion of this session, principals will leave with an "Instructional School Improvement Plan" containing concrete strategies and steps for transforming their buildings.

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