Make it the BEST Summer!

9:00am-12:00pm

This training will model effective teaching practices as participants interact in-depth with current educational research regarding learning targets, establishing inquiry in the classroom, motivation, and effective lesson design techniques that align and support Criterion 1: Centering Instruction on HIGH Expectations for Student Achievement.

1:00pm-4:00pm

How can I support multilingual students with acquisition and application of STEM language and vocabulary? How can I support English Language Learners in engaging in classroom discourse in STEM subjects? This session will provide teachers with an overview of the research base and an opportunity to practice with key instructional strategies to support students in expressing STEM understandings by leveraging the NGSS and CCSS ELA standards. Participants will experience a language focused STEM activity and apply strategies for language acquisition. There will be a focus on science based vocabulary, classroom discourse and written responses to STEM learning.

9:00am-12:00pm

While there is no quick and easy formula to completely address the complex issues of learner variance in the classroom, an in-depth analysis of proactive differentiation strategies will support educators who strive to provide varied approaches in content, process, and product while anticipating and responding to student differences in readiness, interest, and learning needs.

This workshop models interactive teaching strategies as participants actively engage with Carol Ann Tomlinson’s newest edition of How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms that clarifies differentiation, provides rationale for proactive choices, and offers concrete examples for educators that will expand their professional skill set. Through collaborative, engaged targeted learning strategies, participants will cultivate relationships with colleagues.

Through alignment of Principles of Effective Teaching to the State Frameworks, participants will increase their ability to demonstrate professional growth in New Teacher Evaluation and increase all their students’ abilities to produce viable evidence of learning.

9:00am-12:00pm

This interactive workshop models effective teaching practices for teachers to take back to their classrooms for immediate implementation. Through intentional choice of diverse strategies, teachers will increase student engagement in learning, provide necessary differentiation for all learners in the classroom, and create viable evidence of learning aligned with their instructional framework. These strategies encourage students’ independence, hold them accountable for their own work, and allow them opportunities to take ownership of not only their own learning, but also the learning of others

1:00pm-4:00pm

There are ways that we can set up a smooth running classroom for the first day, week, month, and year! Using guiding principals from Harry Wong’s book, The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher, with modern insight.
We will also explore some ideas on how to set up systems not only within the classroom but also for how to keep you as the educator organized as well. Some ways can be done with the students, and other ways can be done before the students enter the classroom. Bring your own “System” ideas to share with the group, we all learn from one another.
We will explore ideas on how to set up your classroom with some Feng shui ideas that will help create a warm, comfortable and inviting room that will make you happy to be in, even on those hard days!