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About Learning offers a wide variety of training and support to help educators implement 4MAT in their own organizations. All our training follows the 4MAT Cycle, so it is highly engaging and interactive and consistently achieves very high marks from teachers and instructors.  Below is a listing of workshops that are most requested by our many clients.

4MAT Introductory Training

These half-day or full-day 4MAT Introductory Sessions are ideal for building support for continued 4MAT implementation and use. About Learning has a large network of trainers from across the country who can come to your organization to perform this training.

About Learning offers a series of introductory training sessions to introduce your staff to 4MAT. Awareness sessions include the following:

• Understanding the differences in how students learn
• The key tenets of high quality instruction
• Creating more dynamic and inclusive classrooms
• The Five Points of Assessment: A view of assessment through the lens of 4MAT

4MAT Core Training

4MAT Core Training is for teachers or organizations that want to integrate 4MAT into their daily instruction. It includes 3 to 6 Days of training in the 4MAT Model and how to use 4MAT to help transform instruction.

4MAT Training teaches you to:

• Understand and accommodate learning differences
• Use more powerful teaching strategies to optimize student learning
• Design more efficient and effective curriculum
• Learn to conceptualize instruction to increase its impact

The initial training comprises 3 days, with follow-up coaching and support modules available for more in-depth study.

4MAT Coaching and Continuation Training

After initial training, the most essential consideration is how you continue to facilitate and support the implementation of this model. This type of support is most often delivered in conjunction with a local 4MAT Coach, who can work with teachers to help hone and refine their 4MAT units. Coaches can work with teachers one on one or in small groups. Teachers truly appreciate this type of follow-up support, as they are working on creating their own courses, based on their own content, with the support of a trained professional on the process of 4MAT. After initial training and implementation, follow-up coaching and support should be provided to all teachers working to implement 4MAT in the classroom.

4MAT Trainer Certification

For those individuals that want to be certified to conduct 4MAT Training within their own organizations, 4MAT Trainer Certification is required. In 4MAT Trainer Certification, participants become certified to present and implement the most practical and effective teaching method available. 4MAT Trainers qualify to present the 4MAT Training program within their own organizations, dramatically reducing the cost of implementation. You’ll learn to present different 4MAT programs, lead an in-house staff development initiative, coach others in the art of lesson development and organize curriculum to promote higher learner involvement.

4MAT Leadership Training (1-3 Days)

This 1-3 day Training series will give administrators an overview on how to cultivate and shape the learning organization by:

• developing the learning potential of all students
• using leadership skills more effectively
• building greater diversity into instruction
• creating more interactive and inclusive learning environments

Day 1: The Power of Connections. This six hour training is for raising understanding of the different ways people learn, how best to teach to these differences, and how traditional schooling sometimes fails to achieve success for all.

Day 2: A Model for Learning and Leading: This workshop explores the relationship between learning style and leadership style. It will help administrators value the diverse ways people learn and better manage this process to achieve maximum success. Participants will examine four very different concepts of excellence in education while examining how their own values overlay on the leadership model.

Day 3: The Leadership Task:  On Day 3, administrators receive an in-depth look at the various tasks of leadership: Mentoring People, Facilitating Interactions, Collecting Data, Creating the Structure, Exerting Positive Influence for Action, Brokering Resources and Challenging the Status Quo.

Testimonials

“This workshop was fabulous and engaging and exciting not boring in any ways. The presenter was extremely knowledgeable and humorous she was a good presenter. This was one of the best workshops I have had in a couple of years!!”

“The entire workshop was enlightening. I was able to connect learning abilities to something other than academic alone.”

“It was a excellent workshop. It should be given system wide.”

This workshop has helped me…

“To make better and more meaningful lessons.”

“To look at instruction with a much more holistic view.”

“To create complete lessons plans that will affect all learners.”

These are comments from Principals in Chicago Public Schools.

4MAT Instructional Leadership Training (Certified by the Illinois Administrators Association).

4MAT Content Area Training

• 4MAT 4 Algebra: 2-3 days of training on how to implement the 4MAT 4 Algebra in the classroom.
• 4MAT 4 Biology: 2-3 days of training on how to implement 4MAT 4 Biology.
• 4MAT 4 Geometry: 4MAT 4 Geometry Training consists of 2-3 day training sessions to train math teachers how to implement this program in the classroom.