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Quantum Learning: Creating More Effective Teachers
and Engaged, Motivated and Confident Students
"It's not just what we're teaching, but HOW we're teaching."
~ Bobbi DePorter
The issues of effective teaching and student achievement are at the forefront of the rapidly escalating debate on education reform. While many educators, politicians, filmmakers (Waiting for Superman and Race to Nowhere) and parents can identify the problems, few people are offering solutions.
Quantum Learning is a proven solution. Since 1991, over 50,000 teachers have received Quantum Learning training and more than 5 million students worldwide have been positively impacted.
Among school districts nationwide that have benefited from Quantum Learning programs is the McPherson Unified School District. The US Department of Education in February 2011 granted the Central Kansas school system the first ever waiver from No Child Left Beind standards and tests, freeing educators there to use an innovative new program, the C³ – Citizenship, College and Career Readiness initiative. Quantum Learning has worked almost 10 years with the McPherson district. Its 8 Keys of Excellence provide the basis for the district to teach and assess students' in their readiness as citizens.
"Quantum Learning is thrilled to be part of this breakthrough initiative in McPherson," said Bobbi DePorter, president of Quantum Learning Network.
DePorter developed Quantum Learning teacher and student programs as an outgrowth of her highly successful SuperCamp academic summer camps, which she co-founded and launched in 1982.
Through its teacher training programs, Quantum Learning creates engaged, meaningful and joyful learning that challenges students to do their best. Teachers know that this is the kind of learning environment they want to create; they've just never been shown how to do it in their classrooms – until Quantum Learning.
Specifically, Quantum Learning, through a comprehensive set of brain-based strategies and techniques, shows teachers how to do:
- Create engaged students who are excited about learning from bell to bell – Teachers learn how to instill curiosity in their students, how to enroll students in the learning and how to orchestrate positive interactions.
- Make content meaningful and relevant – Quantum Learning teachers discover how to teach to all types of learners (visual, auditory and kinesthetic) and create experiences that connect students to the content.
- Establish a joyful classroom with a "home court advantage" – Teachers are shown how to build a classroom environment of respect and high expectations, stimulate positive student behavior, connect with students by getting into their world, create a positive culture and climate, and focus on acknowledging effort and celebrating learning.
- Challenge students to do their best – Teachers learn how to inspire students through a success model in which students achieve one small success after another. They learn how to help students succeed through a "chunk and review" method that improves retention. Teachers also learn to motivate and teach students character values such as commitment, making the most of every moment and taking responsibility for their actions and their future.
When teachers are empowered and know how to make these things happen in the classroom – when they have practical, transferable skills and techniques to create a learning environment that works – the desired outcomes follow: improved behavior, attendance, grades, test scores and graduation rates. Quantum Learning delivers these outcomes.
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