Top Training Topics

Utilizing Science Tools in the Secondary Classroom
Connecting with 21^st Century Learners
Using Cross-curriculum Instruction to Engage Students and Improve Performance
High School Mathematics and the 21^st Century Learner
Middle School Mathematics and the 21^st Century Learner
Elementary Math Foundations – Build 'Em Strong!
Think Like a Scientist – Elementary Science
What Does the Data Really Tell You
How to Differentiate Instruction in Today’s Classroom
Reaching the Struggling Reader
icore™ Training

Utilizing Science Tools in the Secondary Classroom

Teachers of secondary Science plan, guide, facilitate and assess teaching and learning through the effective use of the Tools of Science.

Be prepared to experience activities related primarily to activating the processes of science, models and templates that will be incorporated into best practices.  Activities are designed to build your students’ conceptual and procedural knowledge of science and increase their success on high stakes assessments. 

In this professional development, participants will:

• Actively participate in effective student-centered activities
• Acquire techniques for integration of science and technology
• Formulate an understanding of and use for the 5E instructional model
• Engage in questioning techniques targeting in-depth learning

 

Connecting with 21^st Century Learners

Reaching 21^st Century learners requires new skills and knowledge for 21^st century educators.  Students come to class with diagnostic data about themselves and practical experiences with today’s technology. 

Come ready to experience activities that demonstrate how to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of 21^st century students. Available technologies will be shown to streamline this process.

Teachers will explore and learn methods to:

• Deliver content described in state and national standards
• Meet individual learning styles and increase student performance
• Prepare students for the ever-changing future that will require critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Help students work independently to ask and answer questions

 

Using Cross-curriculum Instruction to Engage Students and Improve Performance

Students and teachers are more involved in learning when topics address benchmarks and big ideas across content areas.  Best practices and ideas to guide instruction across the curriculum are provided in this workshop to foster and enhance the efforts of teachers to engage all students. 

Come prepared to learn how differentiated instruction of the annual assessed concepts across content areas will help students to make sense of what they learn and apply knowledge. Understand why reading and writing improves with a conscious effort to apply knowledge of science, social studies and mathematics.

In this professional development, participants will:

• Experience instructional techniques that will enable students to view their learning with personal relevance and will raise student achievement
• Explore the use of cross-curricular themes to create active readers and writers
• Actively participate in activities that demonstrate how teaching children through merged disciplines better prepares them for applying new knowledge and understandings and increases performance on high stakes assessments and success in life

 

High School Mathematics and the 21^st Century Learner

Appropriate use of technology, multimedia and multiple representations such as graphs, tables, concrete models and symbols is critical to meet the diverse needs of the 21^st century learner. 

Come ready to experience classroom-ready instructional materials that integrate algebraic and geometric concepts while demonstrating the effective use of technology, such as graphing technologies, data collection devices, Java applets, and virtual manipulatives.

Discover the excitement of learning mathematics in a 21^st century classroom.

In this professional development, participants will:

• Actively participate in effective student-ready activities that meet the diverse needs of the 21^st century learner
• Acquire techniques for integration of the graphing calculator and other technology and manipulatives into the mathematics classroom
• Examine how critical thinking skills and effective questioning techniques will help students be more successful on high stakes assessments

 

Middle School Mathematics and the 21^st Century Learner

Preparing today’s students to succeed in the 21^st century requires a new kind of teaching and learning. The appropriate use of technology, media, and multiple representations is critical to meeting the diverse needs of the 21^st century learner.
Come ready to experience classroom-ready instructional materials that integrate skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, and innovation with the effective use of technology, such as graphing technologies, data collection devices, and virtual manipulatives.
Discover the excitement of learning mathematics in a 21^st century classroom.

In this professional development, participants will:

• Actively participate in effective student-ready activities that meet the diverse needs of the 21^st century learner
• Acquire techniques for integration of technology and manipulatives into the middle school mathematics classroom
• Examine how critical thinking skills, problem solving skills and effective questioning techniques will help students be more successful on high stakes assessment

 

Elementary Math Foundations – Build 'Em Strong!

Competent and confident math students are a reality when we build a strong foundation of deep conceptual understanding blended with computational fluency.

Come ready to explore instructional strategies which promote interactive classrooms where learners are actively engaged through concrete materials and pictorial representations. Educators will acquire an understanding of the foundational, “big ideas” of mathematics and the pedagogy to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse students.

Discover the exciting world of elementary mathematics where rigorous learning takes place on a daily basis!

In this professional development, participants will:

• Analyze the alignment of standards-based instruction with a variety of effective classroom-ready activities addressing number and operation sense
• Examine the appropriate use of manipulatives, technology and multiple representations to add depth and breadth to the mathematics curriculum.
• Learn to incorporate critical thinking skills, mathematical discourse and problem solving ensuring student success on high stakes assessments

 

Think Like a Scientist – Elementary Science

Doing in the science classroom provides a basis for first hand communication by stimulating student interaction. 

Come ready to learn, revisit, or put a different slant on the doing of science by participating in activities that use the process skills of science to enhance student learning.  Educators will acquire an understanding of how combining the questioning, doing and communicating in this workshop will meet the needs of all students ensuring student success on high stakes assessments.

Discover the exciting world of elementary science where rigorous learning takes place on a daily basis!

In this professional development workshop, participants will:

• Acquire techniques for integration of science and technology
• Formulate an understanding of the doing of science relates to the 5E instructional model
• Engage in questioning techniques targeting in-depth learning

 

What Does the Data Really Tell You?

Today’s teachers are bombarded with an abundance of data on each and every student in their classroom.  In this workshop you will learn how to make sense of that data. What does the data show about what kids can do well? Participants will explore way to use data to make instructional decisions including alignment of written curriculum, taught curriculum, instruction and assessment.

In this workshop participants will:

• Examine disaggregated data from state assessments
• Examine campus and district benchmarking data
• Use the data to help decide on appropriate classroom activities based on what the students know and do not know
• Use the data to create better classroom assessments
• Align selected activities and assessments with your existing scope and sequence

 

How to Differentiate Instruction in Today’s Classroom

Students in today’s classrooms come from different cultures, have different learning styles, have varying levels of social and emotional maturity and reflect different levels of academic readiness. How can a teacher meet all of these different student needs in one classroom?

Be prepared to explore instructional strategies that facilitate the differentiation of content, process and products. Educators will learn how to plan lessons that differentiate on the bases of readiness, interest and learning profile.

In this professional development workshop, participants will:

• Acquire techniques to meet the needs of diverse student populations
• Learn how to differentiate content, process and products
• Explore grading in the differentiated classroom

 

Reaching the Struggling Reader

How do we reach the struggling reader before the student progresses through grade levels and the academic distance from those who read well becomes more and more visible? Explore solutions to this probing question as we examine how phonics, fluency, and comprehension instruction can be developed through teacher role-modeling and student interaction as real-world experiences unveil themselves in the classroom setting and success and self-esteem in every struggling reader is increased.

In this professional development, participants will:

• Become skilled at phonics-starved student remediation through enriching daily activities
• Gain awareness of their significance as the reading role-model and learn a variety of activities so that fluency and expression are achieved orally
• Discover techniques to engage students during read aloud that encourage student interaction and quality conversation, while making connections with literature and real-world experiences
• Analyze reading strategies that are necessary to recondition the struggling reader’s thought process in order to increase meta-cognitive awareness

 

icore™ Training

icore is a comprehensive curriculum tool we offer to districs that is both teacher and student centric. This hands-on 6 hour training will have those teachers and administrators who have purchased icore ready to implement this program immediately.