Education is Fortunate to be High on the List of Priorities in Gates/Buffet Mega Fund, but are Teachers Ready?

Sandy LaBelle has created classroom management techniques based on successful business management techniques - thus creatively reducing teachers' stress and fatigue. This reduction is critical before we ask teachers to embrace significant reform.

Covington, WA (PRWEB) July 1, 2006 -- Sandy LaBelle has created classroom management techniques based on successful business management techniques - thus creatively reducing teachers' stress and fatigue. This reduction is critical before we ask teachers to embrace significant reform.

“Fundamental educational changes can be a very stressful journey for teachers. Before we take on the arduous task of systemic change, we need to make sure teachers are ready or the transition can be overwhelming,” cautions nationally recognized expert on classroom management, Sandy LaBelle. “If we expect our teachers to embrace significant educational changes, we need to provide specific techniques to reduce their current stress and fatigue. Systemic change requires a lot of work up-front, and a lot of creativity. A stressed-out person is neither energetic nor at their creative best. Before we do the spectacular, let’s make sure we have streamlined the everyday realities of teaching, so we have laid the foundation for the hard work to come.”

LaBelle has developed a profoundly successful classroom management model based on proven-successful business techniques. “By approaching the classroom in a more business-like manner, run by a classroom manager students are prepared for the future work world - and they really like it!”, says LaBelle. To develop these revolutionary classroom management techniques, Sandy LaBelle took classes from the business world and modified the management ideas to fit classrooms. Then she continually adjusted these management approaches until she had the classroom purring like a happy kitten. By using LaBelle’s techniques, students are cooperatively on task within one minute of the class-start bell, they take more responsibility for their learning, and feel more empowered. There are more smiles in the classroom. Behavior problems are virtually eliminated! Logically, as a result, teacher stress and fatigue is reduced dramatically.

Clearly, education is a winner with Warren Buffet’s enormous contribution to the Gates foundation. These business juggernauts can focus attention and financial resources on educational needs in a unique way. Once we reduce the current teacher stress and fatigue through new classroom management approaches, then we will have teachers ready to embrace the ambitious Gates/ Buffet reforms.

Sandy LaBelle has spoken to teacher and administrator groups across the country at state and national conferences. She has rescued countless numbers of teachers at risk of leaving teaching due to stress and fatigue. Her books are already in the hands of thousands of teachers, many of whom were at the end of their rope and hanging on to the knot before reading Sandy’s books and deciding to stay in teaching.

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Please see www.teachingsmarter.net.

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