Is Ms. Ussin's Course for You?
If you're an education major or newly hired teacher (K-12), and you want to get ahead of the game with creating an exciting classroom environment that's well-managed and conducive to learning, this course is for you.
If you've been teaching (K-12) anywhere from 1 day to 3 school years and you're looking for a refresher to help you establish an exciting classroom environment that's well-managed and conducive to learning, this course is for you.
Classroom Management
Learn how to establish effective classroom expectations, rituals and routines
Build Relationships
Learn how to build positive student-teacher relationships that make teaching easy
Your Teaching Power
Learn to identify your personal strengths and unique qualities that will enhance instruction
Example Curriculum
Who Is Ms. Ussin?
Before her May 2021 transition from the classroom to full-time academic consulting, Ms. Iantha Ussin taught middle school English for 15 years with the Richmond County School System in Augusta, Georgia. In addition to being voted her school's Teacher of the Year in 2011, she was repeatedly named a highly qualified middle grades ELA instructor and model teacher throughout her tenure.
Currently, Ms. Ussin is a workshop facilitator and trainer, keynote speaker, and conference presenter. She partners with school districts, individual schools and universities to educate, empower and equip new teachers for the classroom. Educators leave her get-up-and-move workshops with newfound motivation for creating classroom cultures that foster excitement for learning, which ultimately leads to students' academic success. She specializes in helping teachers (1) establish and maintain rituals and routines that create a perpetual conducive-to-learning environment (2) implement engaging, impactful lessons that are rich with meaningful, hands-on targeted tasks from bell to bell (3) build positive teacher-student relationships that eliminate the need for administrative behavioral intervention (4) understand the importance of teaching with power through her signature P.O.W.E.R. Teaching Tools.
Ms. Ussin is a three-time author. Her latest book, written specifically for beginning and pre-service teachers is Your Classroom or Their Playground: Classroom Management Observations and Conversations for the New Teacher (2021).
Ms. Ussin holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Louisiana Tech University and a Master of Arts in Teaching degree (Middle Grades Language Arts) from Augusta University.
Your Classroom or Their Playground
Written specifically for pre-service and new teachers, Your Classroom or Their Playground: Classroom Management Observations and Conversations for the New Teacher is a tool to help beginning teachers not only establish order in their classrooms, but also maintain it and ultimately help students reach their fullest potential. Chapter by chapter, Ms. Ussin details first-hand accounts of what worked in her classroom and in other teachers' classrooms, and what didn't. Along with research-based, proven management strategies, she provides a wealth of veteran tips, tricks, and guidance of her own that can work in any classroom with any curriculum.
