Calmer, Easier, Happier Teaching and Learning
Online In-Service Training for Schools:
Turning Theory into Practice
Training for teachers, learning support assistants, learning mentors, and SENCOs in nurseries, primary and secondary schools, and special units.
The Calmer, Easier, Happier Teaching and Learning skills are practical and effective. Using these proactive strategies makes classroom management easier, which enables teachers to guide pupils to achieve their best.
By putting the new skills into practice, you will guide your pupils to become more:
• cooperative and able to stay on task
• motivated to focus on doing their best
• confident and self-reliant
• polite, considerate, and self-aware
• willing to follow rules, routines, and instructions
• effective problem-solvers
• resilient and adaptable
• successful academically
Our in-service training addresses the needs of pupils with typical and atypical learning styles or behavioral issues (whether they have a diagnosis or not).
The training days are interactive, with Noël demonstrating realistic solutions to the participants’ issues.
Half-days, full-days, twilight sessions, or weekends, all via Zoom.
Mentoring for School Staff
Sometimes teachers are puzzled and frustrated by the behavior problems or learning difficulties of a particular pupil. Here are the steps for mentoring:
Noël meets with the teacher(s) to discuss the issues.
Noël meets with the parents to discuss the issues.
With the parents’ permission, the teachers film this pupil in several different settings: classroom, playground, lunch room, etc. (We leave out this step if the parents or the school don’t want filming.)
Noël studies the video recordings.
Next, Noël meets with the teacher(s) and the parents via Zoom to share her findings and to make recommendations.
Then she supports the teachers and the Senior Leadership Team to manage the pupil’s issues differently.
Soon the pupil is functioning more maturely: cooperating, focusing, and interacting.
As a result, teachers and parents see significant improvements in learning, as well as in motivation, confidence, resilience, and social skills.
Schedule an Initial Consultation with Noël to find out how you and your co-workers can do things differently at school to get different results.
During the Initial Consultation Noël will ask you questions to find out the nature and extent of the issues you’re dealing with.
At the end of the Initial Consultation Noël will explain what she recommends to address your issues.
Parenting Webinars for Schools
Noël gives parenting webinars for schools via Zoom, explaining how to use the ‘Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting’ strategies to improve cooperation, motivation, confidence, respect, and self-reliance.
Noël Janis-Norton developed the ‘Calmer, Easier, Happier Teaching and Learning’ approach from her more than fifty years of experience as a teacher, special needs advisor, study skills specialist, and head teacher, as well as through continuous research and careful observation of exactly what teachers do and how they do it, and what the results are, in the short term and the long term.
Noël is dedicated to helping children and adolescents learn to do their best and be their best and feel their best.
As well as consulting and leading webinars across the English-speaking world, Noël is still very much a hands-on practitioner. She teaches, works with families, and trains professionals.
Noël also gives parenting webinars for schools via Zoom, explaining how parents can use the ‘Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting’ strategies to improve cooperation, motivation, confidence, respect, and self-reliance.
Read what teachers say about
“Calmer, Easier, Happier Teaching and Learning”
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We had Noël come in and do three insets (one a term for a whole year) for us because we were dealing with a lot of low-level misbehaviour, and the teachers had got into the bad habit of reminding and reprimanding. That clearly wasn´t working because the issue didn´t improve, but the teachers didn´t know what else to do. Noël taught us a handful of strategies, and all the teachers saw a huge improvement.
-Head Teacher
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One year we had quite a lot of special needs pupils in Year 3, and the usual methods and tricks for classroom control just weren’t working. From the ‘Calmer, Easier, Happier Teaching and Learning’ in-service trainings, we learned about Descriptive Praise (instead of superlative praise), think-throughs, and focusing on rewards instead of threats. Also, all the teachers already knew about differentiating, but truthfully, they often didn’t have enough preparation time. Noël showed us easier, painless ways to differentiate.
-SEN Coordinator
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A few years ago we had a class of very rowdy boys, so we turned to Noel because she had helped us in the past. She reviewed the ‘Calmer, Easier, Happier Teaching and Learning’ strategies with us, which was very useful for the new teachers who hadn´t been there a few years before when Noel had trained us. Some of the new teachers were skeptical, but they were willing to give it a try, and within weeks the class was significantly improved. And by the end of the term, it really was like a different class altogether.
-Deputy Head
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We were all feeling rather desperate because in every class there seemed to be one or two or three children whose behaviour was taking up so much of the teacher´s time and attention that it was seriously interfering with the other pupils´ learning. Noël gave us some quite revolutionary ways of dealing with those children. There was some resistance from the staff at first, and even from some of the parents, but it turned out the children loved it. And their behavior transformed within a term. We have now embedded these strategies and we teach them to all the new teachers.
-Head of Year
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Noël came to our school and did a series of in-service trainings for us, especially targeted to our NQTs. They were all amazed that they hadn´t learned the ‘Calmer, Easier, Happier Teaching and Learning’ methods at college. They were very open, and they followed Noël´s guidelines to the letter, and they loved the results. And from my point of view they were the happiest, least-stressed NQTs we´d ever had.
-Head Teacher
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After Noël taught the staff the new strategies, our classrooms became much calmer, easier and happier. But we still had problems in the lunchroom and in the playground. So Noël did a couple of insets specifically for the mid-day staff. A lot of them had been at the school for decades and couldn´t really believe that anything would make much of a difference. They were quite resistant. But the ones who did use the strategies were very pleased with the results. Lunchtimes and break-times were much easier to manage because the children were much more polite and cooperative.
-School Governor