Teach Well

TeachWell for teachers in Santa Barbara County…

• DATE/TIME: 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS • 3:30PM • 2x/month • drop-in group
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• LOCATION: Hybrid • VIRTUAL via Zoom
  **zoom link will be emailed to you after you register for the group**
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• DESCRIPTION: Peer support group for teachers of tweens & teens to connect, share challenges, and learn strategies for building trusting relationships with students and get support. Teachers will explore strategies for motivating students, handling difficult conversations, reducing stress, and maintaining positive relationships without engaging in power struggles.
  We know that students learn best in relationship with others, and we also know that as they hit the teen years, they begin to pull away from family in favor of peers. They still need adult role models in their lives, so how can we as educators build trust with them and create connections that will enhance their learning environment? Join us to explore how to capitalize on the attributes of the adolescent brain to create trusting relationships.
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• PARTICIPANTS: teachers in Santa Barbara County are invited to attend
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• LANGUAGE: this is an English speaking group
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• FACILITATOR: Kari

If you have questions or comments, please email GROUPS@youthwell.org or call 805.770.1930 ext 103

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2024-2025 CALENDAR • Thursdays

• OCT 3, 17
• NOV 7, 21
• DEC 5 [no group Dec 19]
• JAN 9, 23 [skipping 1st week of Jan] — Managing Stress: Educator edition
• FEB 6, 20 — The difference between punishment and consequences
• MAR 6, 20 — Having difficult conversations with tweens and teens
• APR 3, 17 — Teens, Tweens, and Technology
• MAY 1, 15 — Developing Self-Awareness and Critical Thinking in Students

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TOPIC BREAKDOWN…

1. Adolescent Brain & Social Development Basics
   Understand how to assess different learning styles and help students use that knowledge to be more effective in their school experience, share ideas about how to motivate students to stay engaged in the classroom with the material you’re teaching, and brainstorm how to prioritize process (learning) over outcomes.
2. Learning Styles: Differences and how to support them
3. Mindfulness: Ideas and Activities for Students
4. Managing Stress: Student edition
5. Managing Stress: Educator edition
6. The difference between punishment and consequences
7. Having difficult conversations with tweens and teens
   Identify the most common barriers to communicating with adolescents and learn ways to really listen to kids when they come to you with concerns or frustrations, brainstorm ways to help calm students’ nervous systems so that you can have exchanges about challenges they’re facing in the classroom.
   Understand the difference between conflict and disagreement and how to maintain a connection with students when there are challenges without getting locked in a power struggle, help students examine the stories they tell themselves about what they’re capable of and dismantle them.
8. Teens, Tweens, and Technology
9. Developing Self-Awareness and Critical Thinking in Students
   Learn how to help students assess their own stories and triggers so that they can begin to challenge some of the habits and behaviors they have that are making things more challenging for them.