Mr. Deonte McLeanClassroom Management and Student Engagement Trainer
Mr. McLean teaches K-12 music and trains teachers in Time To Teach classroom management and student engagement, with strategies they use in their very next class period.
I've trained hundreds of beginning and veteran teachers in colleges and schools in Virginia! I'm looking forward to serving your school!
Mr. Deonte McLean is from Dunn, North Carolina. He has spent six years in education and is still in the classroom. He teaches K-12 music, has also taught middle school life science and math, and has taught core and elective classes in four school districts.
As a student he was known as the "unprepared sweet kid": never prepared, sometimes on task, but always sweet. Today he runs his classroom with a firm-but-fair method of one-and-done warnings. He follows two lines: "Kids don't care how much you know until they know how much you care," which he credits to Madeline Hunter, and Proverbs 22:6, "Train up a child in the manner that they should go and when they grow older they shall never depart from it."
He believes that a clear routine, clear expectations, and being yourself in the classroom help students get far more out of every lesson. He was named Beginning Teacher of the Year for 2021-2022, has been nominated for Teacher of the Year five times, and has earned the respect of more than 1,000 students and built relationships with them. He has trained hundreds of beginning and veteran teachers in colleges and schools in Virginia.
Strategies teachers put into practice the very next class period.
All the concepts and ideas presented were logical, practical, and had the best interest of all the students in mind. I really enjoyed my day and have a new outlook on classroom management. I recommend this seminar to anyone who works with children!
"The classroom management seminar was one of the most immediately useful workshops taken to date. Even after 20 years of education!"
"I am a student teacher, and today was my first day 'on the job'. I could not think of more valuable thing to learn at the beginning of a stressful time in my own education. Thank you!"
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