Your professional development is important to us. That’s why we offer conferences and workshops throughout each year. Below is our current workshop offerings offered state-wide, if you wish to inquire about having a particular training in your area, contact the person offering the training you desire. Visit our conferences link to find up-to-date information about current and upcoming conferences.

Workshops presented by: , NEA-NH Coordinator of Public Education and School Support and NEA-NH Trained Cadre

Teacher/Paraeducator Connection
This session will focus on strategies to help make the classroom a more effective place to learn. Specifically, this will be accomplished by the partnership of the classroom teacher and educational assistant, a partnership with clear guidelines and expectations. The distinctions and commonality of the purpose for the work of the teacher and assistant will be explored. That purpose is to provide an appropriate atmosphere and model for students that supports their work. Assistant and teacher partners are encouraged to attend together.

Parent/Teacher Connection
This workshop explores how to communicate with parents to assist their students’ learning. National statistics show it is not just economics, race, or ability that influence our students. It is also their parents’ attitudes toward school. Come and discuss strategies to help you encourage parents to become part of their children's learning team.

How Tos for Creating Portfolios
This “hands on/minds on” workshop will help you to create a portfolio that will enable you to market your skills and knowledge. Learn how to create a portfolio for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Classroom Management for Experienced Educators
This workshop has been created to support the experienced educator in the ever-changing classroom environment. Although we may be comfortable with teaching, many times we are faced with challenges from students that may require adjustments not only in our own individual teaching style but also in those that affect the classroom in its entirety.

Mentor Training Program
Learn how you can share your knowledge of the teaching profession and make a beginning educator’s first year a more successful one. This is a district-wide program.

“I Can Do It” — Classroom Management for New Teachers
This program is designed to assist new teachers in dealing with classroom behaviors. Learn about transitions, smoothly flowing classrooms, parent communication, rules and routines and communication styles. This workshop is geared for new teachers in their first 5 years of teaching. The cost is $15.00 per participant.

Workshops presented by: NEA-NH Human and Civil Rights Committee - Cost is $50 per hour plus material fees, for information please contact at 224-7751

Our Diverse Community:
Living, Working and Learning Together
When we effectively address the diversity that exists among educators and students, we create a better work environment and, most importantly, a better learning environment for students. This training is especially tailored to be relevant to the everyday experience of a broad range of educators. 4 hours

Dealing with Difficult People
Are there people you work with, or must deal with regularly, who are perpetually negative or argumentative unless they get their own way? Have you ever given up on something that was important because it was not worth fighting with someone who disagreed with you? This workshop will help you empower yourself, keep your cool and achieve your goals in spite of that person who seems determined to torpedo your ideas. 2 hours

Grabbing the Gold Ring
Participants will be guided through a process to set personal and professional goals and explore a variety of short- and long- term strategies to help achieve them. 2 hours

Pulled in too Many Directions?
The current demands on teachers both in and out of the classroom can often become overwhelming. Our efforts to get it all done cause excessive stress and threaten to take the joy out of the job. Put things into perspective as you explore user-friendly strategies for time management, organizational skills and stress relief. 2 hours

You are What you Say
Who you are and how you see yourself affects the way you relate to others and communicate with them. Learn to assess your self-image and learn how to use your strengths to facilitate communications and interpersonal relations. You will also explore what gets in your way and creates barriers to communication. 2 hours

Shortchanged in the Classroom?
If you woke up tomorrow as a member of the opposite sex, how would your life be different? Participants will learn to recognize unintentional bias in their own interactions with students. Strategies will be presented to help you teach with real equity. 2 hours

Skills for Making Groups Work
This workshop will focus on adult groups/committees. It will include skills to help understand group dynamics, methods to effectively communicate within a group, and processes to move forward toward goals that the group has set. 2 hours

Prevent the Epidemic . . . A recent NEA–NH survey on violence in schools has shown bullying to be a pervasive problem, but there is still time to make a difference. Every school has both bullies and children who are teased and picked on. The programs listed below suggest useful tools to use either in the classroom or as part of a whole school program. They offer proactive strategies for prevention and intervention in bullying situations. 2 hours

Quit-It!
Inappropriate behaviors such as teasing, bullying, verbal or physical harassment are learned early. Helping children and youth develop healthy behaviors, relationships and responses is imperative to a civil and equitable society. The focus of this session is children in grades K-3. 2 hours

Bullyproof
This session is like Quit-It!, with a focus on grades 4, 5 and 6. 2 hours

Flirting or Hurting
Child development is impacted by culture. Psychological problems or maladaptive behaviors such as verbal or physical abuse between boys and girls, men and women, often flow from gender relationships that are learned early. Helping children and youth develop healthy gender relationships is imperative to a civil and equitable society. Bullying at this level often takes a direction toward sexual harassment. The focus of this session is children in grades 6 through 12. 2 hours

The above workshops are also available to be presented from an ESP point-of-view.

The new training program below consists of two workshops, each 90-120 minutes in length, which can be delivered separately or together. The workshops are especially designed for people who are not gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender, and who are interested in addressing bias regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.

TAKING A STAND: Creating Safe Schools for All Students
This introductory workshop, designed for all school personnel, uses video clips and hands-on activities to examine the obvious and
subtle ways that bias plays out in schools, and offers resources for creating schools that are safe for all students, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity.

WALKING THE TALK: Classroom Resources for Addressing Bias
This advanced workshop, designed for K-12 classroom instructors, examines various approaches to designing and integrating activities into the classroom that raise awareness of bias and empower students to advocate for change, especially around anti-GLBT bias.

Workshop presented by: and , NEA-NH Staff Attorney's

Message Development
Learn how to tailor your message to the audience that you need to address. The result will be clearer communication, more common ground with parents and community leaders, and support for your initiatives. NEA message development manual available to participants.

Workshop Coordinated and Presented by:
Penny Culliton, GLSEN S.W. N.H. President, 878-4361

Setting the Record a Little Less Straight — Although many textbooks have become more miniroty-inclusive in recent years, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender voices and lives are still being excluded. Learn some strategies for adding in what’s been left out, especially in the high school literature classroom.