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As an educator, you know there is never an end to learning. You teach this to your students, but how do you incorporate this into your career? Workshops are a great way to continue your education, learn new skills, and stay up-to-date on latest research and strategies. In this post, we’re looking at the top 5 benefits of workshops for teachers.
After reading this post, you’ll have a solid understanding of why workshops are important for educators and how these benefits of workshops for teachers can help your students achieve success both inside and outside of the classroom.
One of the main (and most obvious) benefits of workshops for teachers is the chance to learn new skills and adopt better teaching practices. Some of these skills are obvious, like learning new strategies or ways to improve classroom management. However, there are other skills that you can learn from workshops that aren’t so well known.
Let’s take a look at a few:
When you make learning fun, you not only improve student engagement, but you also improve retention rates.
Why?
When a student is fully absorbed in their learning, they’re more motivated to continue their hands-on practice. In addition, they’re challenged with the material before them, but they aren’t frustrated.
By using classroom games (like these award-winning math or literacy games), you can make learning fun, engaging, and productive. Also, our math games give your students the opportunity to reinforce skills in:
Educational workshops can teach you new ways to make learning these concepts fun, engaging, and collaborative in your classroom!
Online and in-person workshops can also provide different ways to diversify your curriculum. In our online workshops, we empower teachers to incorporate math and literacy games into the classroom. We also give valuable advice on how to seamlessly add new games and activities into your curriculum.
In fact, we wrote a whole blog post on this topic here!
Collaboration is an important skill all students need to learn and practice. By attending workshops and listening to other teachers, administrators, and education experts, you can learn new ways to create collaborative activities in your classroom.
Our math and literacy games offer a fantastic opportunity to encourage collaboration amongst your students. Because our games create a sense of collaborative competition, your students must interact with one another. In addition, they are also prompted to talk through their problems and strategies, further increasing their social interactions.
Learn other benefits of using fun learning games in your classroom by checking out this past blog post!
One of the less obvious benefits of workshops for teachers is the opportunity to network with other teachers inside or outside of your district. By networking with others, you can open doors to new and exciting opportunities for career growth and/or collaborations.
In addition, workshops are a great place to present your knowledge and experience. This could serve two purposes:
Networking not only helps propel your career further, but it also gives you the opportunity to make like-minded connections and friendships.
Any seasoned teacher will know how important learning tools are for the classroom. During workshops, you can learn about new tools and techniques you can acquire that’ll help your students better engage with their work.
In our workshops, we provide helpful insights into simple (but incredibly effective) tools you can integrate into your lessons, including cards, regular dice, dominoes, and engaging multi-sided dice. Paired with fun game concepts focused on helping your students excel in core concepts, these tools are designed to make your teaching more fun, engaging, and effective.
Education is a demanding career. Teachers are constantly faced with struggles and challenges, especially within the last couple of years. And nobody will understand the pressure teachers face more than other teachers.
Workshops are a great place to meet other teachers and find support and encouragement. When you listen to other stories of challenges, it can help you feel less alone or isolated.
At Box Cars, our consultants and workshop leaders are also teachers. We understand what tools, resources, and support you need to truly make a difference with your students.
Learn more about our team by clicking here!
Teachers are busy, and they don’t always have the time to stay up-to-date on current research. But that’s one of the benefits of workshops for teachers—you can gain insight into incredible research and findings in a single session or day.
So you don’t have to spend the time looking for the latest news and research. Workshops will deliver the important elements of the information to you.
Our math and literacy games, as well as our teaching strategies and tips are all backed by research and experience. In the IL ASCD Winter 2018 journal, we published an article, where we studied the correlation between student engagement and game-based learning. You can read more about it here!
There are many benefits of workshops for teachers. And each of them are important to propelling your career and helping your students achieve academic success.
We provide educational workshops for teachers across North America. Recently, we’ve even had a session all the way to Qatar, followed by an afternoon in Chicago! Zoom has had its benefits!
If you have any questions about our games and learning resources or if you’d like to request a custom order, please contact us!
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