Oh, Shift! Walk the Talk-Our Teens Are Watching
Format
Individual Presentation
Location
Scarbrough 4
Strand #1
Mental & Physical Health
Strand #2
Social & Emotional Skills
Relevance
Student achievement As a youth worker, modeling behavior you hope to see in youth is an ongoing opportunity to improving student achievement. If we are teaching them one thing and modeling another we are missing the mark. This presentation addresses the changes that youth workers can create in their own actions/lives so that the can be better models for the youth they serve.
Brief Program Description
Based on the teachings and processes found in the Amazon Best-Selling book, Oh, shift! and Oh, shift! for Teens, Mark Tucker offers a fresh perspective on the shifts youth workers can make to model behavior they hope to see in young people. By learning these principles, participants will be better equipped to guide, teach and embody positivity and personal power to the teens they serve.
Summary
Mark highlights how to use the power of choice to step into a more productive mindset so you can make better decisions, step out of the victim mentality, build confidence and become part of your own solution. Discussions around how to choose your words, reactions and personal role bring light to how you can almost instantaneously create the changes you most desire. This program offers concrete tools and strategies that will empower you to make positive changes that stick. Mark’s dynamic and interactive style makes this session an entertaining, educational and thought-provoking experience for everyone.
Evidence
Years of delivering this presentation to audiences of all ages and sizes with rave reviews and call backs. An average of 4.9 out of 5 audience feedback. Amazon best-selling book Oh, shift is the basis of the presentation content..
Biographical Sketch
Mark Tucker is an award-winning, veteran high school teacher and author who is passionate about helping kids speak their truth with confidence. Mark teamed with best-selling author Jennifer Powers to bring her powerful Oh, Shift! message to teens. .
Using his expert facilitating skills, he created Truth Circle™ groups in order to offer people the unique opportunity to speak and truly be heard. These thought-provoking conversations are designed to exercise truth speaking skills and also help participants hone their nonjudgmental listening skills.
Keyword Descriptors
teens, character, development, leadership, youth, shift, words, reactions, roles
Presentation Year
2015
Start Date
3-3-2015 2:45 PM
End Date
3-3-2015 4:00 PM
Recommended Citation
Tucker, Mark, "Oh, Shift! Walk the Talk-Our Teens Are Watching" (2015). National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference. 23.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar_savannah/2015/2015/23
Oh, Shift! Walk the Talk-Our Teens Are Watching
Scarbrough 4
Based on the teachings and processes found in the Amazon Best-Selling book, Oh, shift! and Oh, shift! for Teens, Mark Tucker offers a fresh perspective on the shifts youth workers can make to model behavior they hope to see in young people. By learning these principles, participants will be better equipped to guide, teach and embody positivity and personal power to the teens they serve.