Patrick Schwartz: Just Give Him the WhaleMarch 13th, 2018 at 9:00am

FREE Event

Intended Audience: Administrators, ECSE Educators, General Educators, Teacher Assistants, Family Members, Family Educators, Psychologists, Social Workers, SLP’s, OT/PT’s

Considering the fascinations, passions and interest areas of learners, powerful new ways of viewing these areas as positive teaching tools that calm, motivate, and improve learning will be illustrated. Using authentic student examples, participants will discover how to make the most of fascinations, passions, and interest areas to help learners they support. Areas included will be learning standards-based academic content; developing social connections; minimizing anxiety; boosting literacy learning and mathematics skills; expanding communication skills; and much more!

Register at:  https://starnet.org/home/events/just-give-him-the-whale/

Heartland community College
1500 W Raab Road
Room 1406/1407
Normal, IL 61761