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Jeff Karon is available to lead workshops that strengthen teachers. |
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· Avoiding overload when assigning writing.
· Grading writing when you are not a writing teacher.
· Encouraging analysis, critique, and critical thinking.
· Building student focus and excellence.
· Creating cross-disciplinary assignments. |
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· Teaching the conventions of writing.
· Building effective research strategies.
· Teaching oral presentations.
· Ensuring that students avoid plagiarism in the age of the Internet.
· Employing peer editing effectively. |
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Sample Workshop Topics: |
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Teach students how to act with honor and strength, thus encouraging excellence in speaking, writing, and behavior. |
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Develop a consistent teaching persona that helps protect against exhaustion and burn-out. |
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Jeff Karon, Ph.D., has presented to colleagues at the high school , county, college, state, and nation levels on topics such as writing, poetry, literature (particularly the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald), avoiding student plagiarism, building honorable behavior, ethics and war, strategic thinking, connections between psychology and literature, and improving professional and technical writing.
He has led workshops for students on topics such as writing, literature, poetry, avoiding plagiarism, general honorable behavior, and ballroom dance. He has designed special workshops to help graduating seniors make the transition to college. In addition, he as given high school and college workshops on historical sword fighting, especially Elizabethan sword fighting in the works of Shakespeare. |
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