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Teacher Effectiveness Training (T.E.T.)

What makes the difference between teaching that works and teaching that fails? The factor that contributes the most is the quality of the teacher-student relationship. It's more important than what the teacher is teaching or who the teacher is trying to teach.

Teacher Effectiveness Training (T.E.T.) offers teachers the essential communication and conflict resolution skills they need to have high quality relationships with their students so there will be less conflict and more teaching-learning time. This model has worked for hundreds of thousands of teachers around the world.

What You Will Learn

How you can talk so that students will listen
How to set classroom rules so that far less enforcement is necessary
How to handle discipline problems so that you get relief without damaging the student's self-esteem
How you can avoid the problems of permissiveness and still have creative classrooms that encourage student participation
How to resolve conflicts so that both you and the students are satisfied with the solutions

How You Will Benefit

You'll experience less stress
Students will have more respect and consideration for you
Fewer classroom disruptions and conflicts
Fewer discipline problems

How Students Will Benefit

Increased academic achievement
Increased responsibility and self-control
More desire to cooperate and learn
Increased ability to work in group situations

Workshop Description
T.E.T. is a 30-hour program designed to involve participants very actively in their own learning. We use the following four-step instructional process in each session:

Structure: Instructor presentations, in-class reading, audio-visual aids.
Involvement: Role-plays, workbook exercises, one-on-one skill practice.
Process: Group discussions, one-on-one sharing and reflection to explore new learnings and insights.
Application: Individual and group activities to consolidate learning and make specific action plans. Involves workbook and text reading and out-of-class skill practice assignments.

What Educators Say About T.E.T.

"Having once taught physics and math at the high school level, I thought my greatest achievement as a teacher would be to have graduated students knowledgeable of such material as Newton's laws and quadratic equations. In hindsight, although subject-specific information is certainly important, if I had to choose with what knowledge and skills students left school, I would choose communication skills. Such skills promote the most effective discipline--self-discipline--in school as well as in society. Until something better comes along, the communication model I would use would be Gordon's."
-- Robert T. Tauber, as quoted in his book Classroom Management.

"I have always thought that what a teacher needs most is passion and knowledge of the subject he teaches. But after taking T.E.T. I now realize that not only the teaching method but also the communication between teacher and pupil is the most important thing in teaching."
-- N.T., Teacher, Tokyo, Japan.

About Our Instructors

Teacher Effectiveness Training is taught only by highly-trained persons with classroom experience and have been authorized by Gordon Training International.

For information on bringing Teacher Effectiveness Training to your school, please contact us at schools@gordontraining.com or by phone at (800) 628-1197, ext. 300.