InterContinental Hotel, Athens, Greece
Joy Marchese
Educational Consultant and Positive Discipline Trainer.
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Full Bio
JOY MARCHESE, MA, CPDT, has worked as a teacher, trainer, and parent educator in various schools and corporate settings for over 20 years. Her experience teaching in both public and private schools, training managers in large companies and running an educational non-profit organization has helped her understand the unique needs of culturally, ethnically and socially diverse groups.
Most recently Ms Marchese delivers training and workshops internationally through Positive Discipline UK. Concurrently, she also works as a secondary teacher at The American School in London, England, where she successfully implements Positive Discipline in the classroom and delivers teacher training and parent education courses within her school and community.
Ms Marchese was first introduced to Positive Discipline while training teachers to work with students in “at risk” schools throughout the boroughs of New York City. At the time, she was the Program Director for an educational non-profit organization whose aim was to build resiliency in children.
Her own success using the Positive Discipline tools while teaching high school students at Rikers Island Jail is what motivated her to share these tools with others that spend time with children that displayed extreme behavior challenges. What she quickly realized is that every child is “at risk” of not fulfilling his/her true potential, and that all children needed to learn these valuable social and life skills.
Ms Marchese’s Master Degree in Education from Hofstra University is secondary to the education and experience she has achieved from her successes and challenges as a teacher and parent educator to thousands of students and parents. She has a lifelong commitment and passion for child development and education. It is her mission to share her knowledge and experience with both teachers and parents around the globe.
3-Day Positive Discipline Certificate Course
NOTE: In order to complete the required contact hours for their certificate, Positive Discipline participants attend the morning keynotes, but only one session of teacher workshops Saturday and and one session Sunday. After the first session of teacher workshops Saturday and Sunday, participants then spend the rest of the day in their Positive Discipline course. Thank you!
Positive Discipline in the Classroom Certificate Course
March 30-April 1: InterContinental Hotel, Athens
Positive Discipline in the Classroom (developed by Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott) is a research-based classroom management program that empowers teachers with skills to build their students’ sense of community, prepare them for successful living, and increase academic achievement. Experiential learning methods give you skills to help students practice better cooperation, social skills, self-direction, responsibility, and mutual respect in the classroom.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand motivations for misbehavior and how to respectfully encourage change in ways that eliminates most discipline problems.
- Be able to identify the four mistaken beliefs that lead to misbehavior.
- Learn how to encourage students and set limits using kindness and firmness at the same time.
- Learn tools to effectively lead a classroom based on cooperation and mutual respect instead of control.
- Learn how to teach students the Eight Building Blocks for effective class meetings.
- Learn how to teach life skills (self-discipline, responsibility, cooperation, problem solving, etc) so students can cooperate and learn successfully in the classroom.
- Learn a useful set of problem solving steps for really "tough" problems.
- Have a deeper understanding of human behavior and what motivates positive change.
- Have a set of resource materials for future reference.
Target Audience: Teachers, Administrators, Professional Development Personnel, Counselors, community representatives, and anyone who works with young people in a school setting and wants to promote mutual respect and character development in students.
**NOTE: Maximum participants - 20. See "Cost/How to Sign Up" tab above.
Continuum Levels: 3, 4, 5
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Cost / How to Sign Up
NOTE: In order to complete the required contact hours for their certificate, Positive Discipline participants attend the morning keynotes, but only one session of teacher workshops Saturday and and one session Sunday (teacher workshops that immediately follow the morning keynotes). They then spend the rest of the day in their Positive Discipline course. Thank you!
- There is an additional registration fee of $100 to participate in the 3-Day Positive Discipline Certificate Course (March 30-April 1) that includes: PDC Leaders Guide, PDC Teachers Guide, Positive Discipline in the Classroom book, and certification by the Positive Discipline UK organization.
- Sign up on the SEC registration form.
- Maximum participants: 20
SCHEDULE
This 3-day institute will run March 30-April 1, and will follow the same schedule-timings as the rest of the Spring Educators Conference.
Positive Discipline participants attend each morning keynote (starting at 8:30am) plus one session of teacher workshops on Saturday and one session Sunday. After the first session of teacher workshops, participants spend the rest of the day in their Positive Discipline course, for a total of 14 contact hours.
- Friday, March 30:
- 8:30-12:00, Extended Keynote for all delegates (10:00-10:30 coffee break)
- 12:00-1:00, Lunch
- 1:00-5:30, Positive Discipline Course (3:00-3:30 coffee break)
- 6:00-8:00, Welcome Reception for all delegates
- Saturday, March 31:
- 8:30-9:30, Keynote for all delegates
- 9:45-10:45, Attend Teacher Workshops
- 10:45-11:15, Coffee Break
- 11:15-5:30, Positive Discipline Course (12:15-1:15 lunch / 3:15-3:30 short coffee break)
- 6:00-8:00, Saturday Social: "A Taste of Greece" (for all delegates)
- Sunday, April 1:
- 8:30-9:30, Keynote for all delegates
- 9:45-10:45, Attend Teacher Workshops
- 10:45-11:15, Coffee Break
- 11:15-5:30, Positive Discipline Course (12:15-1:15 lunch / 3:15-3:30 short coffee break)
- 6:00-8:00, Saturday Social: "A Taste of Greece" (for all delegates)
View a detailed SEC schedule.