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Note: All courses are approved
for Continuing Graduate Education credit.
The Art and Science
of Teaching
Getting Into Gifted -
Stretching the Minds of all Students (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
Raise the bar for all students! This one day workshop will offer
opportunities to learn and participate in research-based gifted
strategies. Covered will be differentiation of these strategies, the
Socratic Method, use of the Multiple Intelligences, and more.
Participants will leave with resources they can use immediately with
their students.
Maintaining
Creativity while Increasing Student Achievement (7.5 or 15 Clock
Hours)
This one-day workshop provides innovative strategies for creatively
raising student achievement. In an age of accountability, much of
what used to be referred to as 'creative license' has been stripped
away. Find new ways to make teaching fun again, all the while
helping your students to succeed!
Strategic Teaching: Reaching
Every Student, Every Time (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This one-day workshop provides a blend of the research of Robert
Marzano, brain research, Harold Bloom (Bloom's Taxonomy) and the
wisdom of Madeline Hunter (Effective Elements of Instruction) to
teach you every step necessary to be successful with your students.
Up, Down, and All
Around: Differentiating Existing Grade Level Materials to Meet the
Needs of All of Your Students (7.5 or 15 Hours)
This one-day workshop gives you the tools you need to teach every
student in your class with the materials you already have.
Invaluable information and strategies for today's diverse
classrooms.
Classroom Management
Manage THIS!
Classroom Management Strategies that Really, REALLY Work (7.5 or 15
Clock Hours)
This one-day workshop will help teachers manage their classrooms so
that they can maximize time-on-task for their students. Includes
management strategies that have been shown to be successful with
students from diverse backgrounds.
Managing the Cooperative
Learning Classroom
Want to do more cooperative learning, but struggle with maintaining
control of the class during your activities? Learn tips and
tricks for keeping your sanity while managing your activities.
You'll walk away with knowing how to group your students for
different activities, new cooperative learning strategies, and
foolproof assessment ideas. Students crave movement, and
teachers want to feel successful during their workday. This
workshop helps everyone win!
Staying Positive:
Managing Challenging Behaviors in the Mainstream Classroom (7.5 or
15 Clock Hours)
This class focuses on 4 common diagnosed disorders found in
classrooms today. Topics include: Examining the characteristics of
each disorder and what it “looks like” in the mainstream classroom;
understanding the legal rights and responsibilities of student,
teachers and school; reflecting on personal teaching style as it
relates to student behavior outcomes and establishing a positive
relationship with parents/families.
English Learners
Making Every Moment
Count: Maximizing Instruction in the English Language Development
Classroom (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This one-day workshop will help you take your English Language
Development classroom to the next level. You'll find lots of
specifics about how to manage your groups, ideas for language
centers, and strategies to reinforce language learning.
The Effective
Language Development Classroom:
"Around the World in 15 Hours" (2 days) (15
clock hours)
"Around the World in 45 Hours" (4 days) (45 clock hours)
"From Many Nations to One" (6 days) (45 clock hours)
These two-, four-, or six-day workshops include fantastic strategies
to help turn the language development classroom into a language
acquisition powerhouse! Included are background information on
language acquisition, cooperative learning techniques to enhance
oral and written output, authentic assessment strategies, and so
much more! Over 400 glowing testimonials have been received by our
company regarding these workshops. Your staff will love you!
Health/Physical Education
Yoga for the Class/room
Teacher (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This one-day workshop is designed specifically for the classroom
teacher. Pressure to perform often eliminates Physical Education and
recess, yet brain research shows how important movement is for
student achievement. In this class, learn yoga positions and
breathing techniques that will help students diminish stress and
regain focus so that they can learn better and more efficiently.
Literacy Instruction
Guided Reading, Grades 3-6
(7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
In this one-day workshop, you'll find out how to assist your
students to become independent readers, one step at a time. Expert
guidance will be provided on how to approach literacy instruction
for students who need more time.
WordSmart:
Powerful Vocabulary Development Strategies for Every Classroom (7.5
or 15 Clock Hours)
This one-day workshop will give your staff great new ideas to
enhance the most important area of Language Arts. Research-based,
fun, and brimming with exciting activities that transfer immediately
into your classroom, this popular training has been presented across
the United States.
6+1 Trait Writing (7.5
or 15 Clock Hours)
This one- or two-day workshop gives participants the opportunity to
learn all 6+1 traits, view examples of strong trait use at different
grade levels, and assess writing based upon rubrics for each trait.
An outstanding set of tools to add to an educator's toolbox!
STEM Initiative Workshops
Hands-On Mathematics (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
In this workshop, participants will learn effective ways to
establish a classroom environment that is conducive to
teaching/learning hands on math. Additionally strategies for
teaching hands-on math through games, investigations and literature
connections will be shared, as well as information regarding how
children really learn math. Finally, participants will
increase their understand of how to use a variety of hands-on
manipulatives in the K-6 classroom.
Inquiry-Based Science (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
Teaching Science when you aren’t a Scientist – providing your
students with experiences that will prepare them for the 21st
Century. This one-day workshop will provide you with
strategies on teaching Science as inquiry so that you can then
provide your students with the skills they need to pursue science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers in their
future. Participants will leave with resources they can use
immediately with their students.
Teaching Teens
A Silent Cry for Help:
Identifying Warning Signs in our Teenaged Students (7.5 or 15 Clock
Hours)
This course will give teachers common warning signs to help them
identify when students may need help with issues outside the
classroom. It will cover such issues as abuse, drug and alcohol
abuse, eating disorders, homelessness, and depression. Teachers will
also understand what channels to follow to facilitate getting help
for troubled students.
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