Marcia Sauvie

State:

Michigan

Testimonial from a participant

Marcia gives her students more than pages of a textbook. I walk away excited to try the methods that she has shared. She knows the reality of today's classroom. She is truly a Teacher's Teacher!

— L.J., Clio, Michigan

PLS courses I teach:

• Achieving Student Outcomes Through Cooperative Learning™
• Brain-Based Ways We Think and Learn™
• Building Your Technology Education and Skills™
• Coaching Skills for Successful Teaching™
• Designing Motivation for All Learners™
• Discovering the Power of Live-Event Learning™
• Meaningful Activities to Generate Interesting Classrooms™
• Merging Education Goals and Interactive Projects™
• PRIDE™ (Professional Refinements in Developing Effectiveness)
• Project TEACH™ (Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Handling)
• Purposeful Learning Through Multiple Intelligences®
• Successful Teaching for Acceptance of Responsibility®
• Teaching the Skills of the 21st Century®
• Teaching Through Learning Channels™

Years with PLS:

Since 1992

Why I love teaching PLS courses:

The most effective and fulfilled educators have the most options from which to choose. Through PLS I can offer educators cutting-edge research packaged into classroom-ready methods. They step out of class renewed and eager to use what they've learned, infused with energy, and remembering again why they chose to teach despite the challenges of today's classrooms.

Education:

• B.S. in Education, Central Michigan University
• M.A. in Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• ABCS Coach Training, Michigan State University

Teaching experience:

• Junior High - English, Science, Math, Media — 5 years
• Senior High — English 27 years
• College and University — Children's Literature, Education 17 years, part-time
• At-Risk Literacy Coach in Flint, Westwood Heights, and Beecher Districts from 2004 to the present time.

Related experience, recognition, awards, etc.:

• Crystal Apple Award — Michigan State University
• Teacher of the Year — Southeast Michigan
• Teacher of the Year — State of Michigan Finalist
• MAME Winner: Best Media Program in State
• English Department Chair

What I love most about teaching:

I love the challenge of being able to communicate ideas to a variety of people in a multitude of ways, picking and choosing just the right method for the right person. I love it when my teachers come in tired and often beaten down on a Friday night after a hard week of teaching, and then leave renewed and enthusiastic after a weekend of class.

My favorite moment in teaching:

A principal called me last semester to say that one of his best and more experienced teachers unfortunately had burned out and was planning to retire. However, after the teacher took the Successful Teaching for Acceptance of Responsibility® and Purposeful Learning Through Multiple Intelligences® classes, he came back filled with new ideas and enthusiasm and was talking about teaching for many more years. He said the PLS classes had taken years off the teacher's professional life and thanked me for my work. That's what PLS is all about!

Personal information:

Reading, scrapbooking, traveling