Live Events for Business TeachersNBEA has a number of different professional development offerings available to school districts, state associations, and more. We travel to your locations to delivery these relevant and popular presentations. These popular sessions are led by an NBEA facilitator with experience in business education, instructional design and delivery.
Find out more by contacting us. Available programs include but are not limited to (times can be modified as needed): - Helping Students Focus - A Nobel Winning Cognitive Framework (50 minutes) Hot! This is a 5-Star rated event by NBEA members
In today’s fast-paced classroom environment, helping students stay focused is more critical than ever. Based on Daniel Kahneman's groundbreaking work in Thinking, Fast and Slow, this webinar offers high school personal finance, accounting, and business teachers practical strategies to improve student focus and decision-making. By understanding the cognitive processes behind how students think, you can more effectively guide them toward better learning outcomes.
In this one-hour session, you'll learn about: - System 1 vs. System 2 Thinking: Explore Kahneman’s two modes of thinking—System 1 (fast, intuitive, and emotional) and System 2 (slow, deliberate, and logical). Learn how these systems impact student behavior and engagement in the classroom.
- Recognizing and Avoiding Cognitive Biases: Cognitive biases, like overconfidence and anchoring, can affect how students process information. Discover common biases that impact learning and how you can help students avoid these mental traps.
- Improving Decision-Making in the Classroom: Equip your students with the tools to slow down their thinking when necessary, leading to more thoughtful and informed decisions in their academic and personal lives.
- Practical Applications for Teaching: Walk away with classroom strategies to implement Kahneman’s insights. From fostering reflective thinking to creating environments that promote System 2 engagement, these techniques will help your students better focus and retain information.
This session will provide a fresh perspective on how to cultivate focused, thoughtful learning environments, empowering students to develop stronger cognitive and decision-making skills. Join us to gain insights that will transform how you approach teaching complex subjects like finance and business. A complimentary lesson plan teachers can use with students is included. - Five Critical Skills for a Highly Motivating Instructor (50 minutes)
Description: What does research tell us about teachers that have a knack for motivating students? This presentation will examine five research-based attributes of inspiring teachers. The session will fly by as we have fun examining thought-provoking and critical skills for motivating students in the 21st century.
- Motivating Students Who Don’t Care (90 minutes recommended)
Description: Learn helpful classroom strategies for motivating even the most challenging students. Your peers will also be on hand to share their experiences on classroom motivation in business education. After this webinar, attendees will: - Recognize why emphasizing effort is critical and strategies to do so,
- Apply principles to create confidence and hope for students,
- Recognize and apply strategies for building relationships,
- Spark enthusiasm for learning
- Personalities in Life and Business – Soft Skills for the 21st Century Educator and Business Leader (90 minutes recommended)
Description: The keys to motivating learners and business colleagues partially lie in how we interact with different personality types. Teachers tend to teach to their personality type, often a pitfall that can be counterproductive in education. This session will examine four unique but common personality types and how educators and business practitioners can optimally engage with others with different personality types. Caution: this session might change your life.
- Advanced Application of Basic Learning Theories (90 minutes recommended)
Description: You learned a lot in teacher preparatory programs, but now that you have been teaching for a while, are you taking advantage of what you learned and applying your knowledge in an advanced way to maximize your teaching and help save your sanity? Learning theories provide an indispensable framework for how educators offer quality instruction. This session examines a series of exciting and practical learning frameworks for educators. This session is designed to take theoretical frameworks taught in teacher preparatory programs or other modern educational research and reinforce them with practical application from experience. The session will not be passive.
- Trends and Issues in Business Education (50 minutes)
Description: Business education is changing and fast. What are the major trends in business education as identified by NBEA, accrediting bodies, and research? How can teachers prepare for a learning environment that has never been more dynamic.
- Digital Credentials, Open Digital Badges, and Micro-credentialing (50 minutes)
Description: Society is leveraging the digital ecosystem to granularize competencies though digital credentials and open badges. This session will present critical information business teachers need to know about the future of how they credential students and the power of the technology behind the process. Colleges and universities are also finding new means to attract students by offering micro-credentials. Attendees will: Recognize the architecture of an open digital badge, recognize the benefits, identify how schools are using competency based education and digital badges to build and identify tomorrow's workforce, recognize ways colleges and universities can gain an academic edge.
- A Business Professional's Guide to Teaching Online and in the Classroom (1-4 day program, this program can be modularized as needed)
Description: The goal of this program is to help quickly prepare teachers coming from industry to teach. It is becoming more difficult to find qualified instructors to teach business. Often traditional teacher credentialing programs take years to complete and can be expensive. State agencies are turning to alternative credentialing programs to attract new teachers but often need help with how to help prepare workplace professionals that have never taught students. This program contributes to state goals to prepare industry professionals to take their place in the classroom successfully. The workshop will cover:
A. The physiology of learning
B. Practical and research based teaching theory
C. Instructional design basics for a successful class
D. Classroom management for peace and progress
E. Enhancing student motivation to learn
F. Assessment and evaluation
G. Presentation and delivery skills for outstanding instructors
H. Reflective listening skills that help students learn
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