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UDL-What is it and When can I Start Using These Strategies Would you like to learn what the acronym UDL means and why so many grants want this type of model in your curriculum? Learn the “ins” and outs” of how to use Universal Design for Learning in your classroom. Begin to see how these techniques allow all students to learn and grow academically as well as socially and emotionally. Perfect your use of menus to promote learning. Recommended for: All teachers. top of page Thinkfinity and Testing Do you want to have a plethora of sites and resources to give to your students to prepare for their testing in the spring? Attend this workshop and you will be able to direct your students to an amazing supply of reinforcing materials that will enhance their abilities and skills. Spend a few hours and come away with a variety of ways to help your students. Recommended for: Teachers of grades 1-5 Differentiated Learning with Thinkfinity Interactives Are your students at different levels? Do your students have a wide-spectrum of strengths, interests, and needs? Give your students’ choices with the interactive games and tools on the Thinkfinity website. Pique their curiosity. Give them a chance to explore and choose. Come and familiarize yourself with Thinkfinity’s FREE standards-based interactive resources that reach across curricula. Recommended for: Teachers grade 7-12 Strategies to Meet the Common Core Literacy Standards in Content Areas K – 5 The new Common Core English Language Arts standards require specific literacy proficiencies in all content areas. This workshop will focus on specific strategies to enable students to read and comprehend complex informational texts and to respond in well written answers to Open Ended prompts. Through a variety of activities, participants will gain skills to promote: close reading of informational texts, the ability to determine themes and point of view, and the ability to analyze different text structures. Recommended for: K- 5 teachers The Inquiry of Science In Inquiry of Science, teachers will be immersed in inquiry based investigations, making discoveries by playing with pennies and testing paper towels using the scientific method. Teachers will also design their own inquiry-based lab. Recommended for: K- 8 teachers interested in spicing up science top of page Writing for Success on the NJ ASK 3 – 8 This workshop will provide guidelines for evaluating student writing and providing specific strategies to enhance text production. By carefully analyzing student writing, participants will determine needs and how to respond and instruct appropriately to meet those needs. A focus on the required NJ ASK essays and Open Ended answers will be incorporated. Recommended for: Grades 3-8 teachers Scratch: Create Interactive Media Treat yourself and your students (ages 8 and up) to a new, free way to create your own interactive stories, music, and art using Scratch, invented at MIT. Student creations can be shared via the Internet (check out scratch.mit.edu). See why NovemberLearning says, "The Scratch website has become the YouTube of interactive media." While your students are programming and sharing with Scratch, they will "learn to think creatively, plan systemically, and work collaboratively, while also learning important computational ideas.” Recommended for: Teachers of grades 2 and above, technology education, and G & T Blogs, Podcasts and the Classroom Blogs and podcasts form a new partnership in communications media. Students and teachers can become personal publishers and broadcasters in ways that connect the subject area with writing and speaking skills. In the morning we will explore the world of blogs and how a blog can relate to your instructional goals. You will establish a blog on the Internet for future use. The afternoon will be devoted to the world of podcasting. You will learn the vocabulary, the tools and the process used to locate, download, create and publicize your own podcasts. Learn how these tools can amplify student projects as well as your own listening interests. Recommended for: K-12 teachers, all subjects SMART Response Assessment Strategies We need to find out what students do and don't understand without waiting for test results or homework assignments or the end of a lesson. We need to make formative assessment part of instructional practice so that we can adjust teaching and learning while they are happening. See how this can be done with SMART Notebook software, SMART Response interactive clickers, and accompanying Teacher Tools. Learn how to use the clickers, create question sets, set up class records, and establish effective assessment strategies to raise student achievement. Modify your lessons based on quick and easy responses from your students. Target your lessons for success while engaging students of all ages. Recommended for: Teachers with access to SMART Response clickers and software top of page SMART Board Across the Curriculum: A First Course Make the most of your SMART board and watch class participation and engagement soar. First you will master SMART board basics. Then you will learn how to plan and prepare your SMART lessons on any computer using SMART notebook software. Come and take back interactive enhanced lessons to use with your SMART board. We will provide a list of websites that are particularly SMART board “friendly.” No more fumbling for transparencies, hyperlinks, diagrams, or files. Your lesson will flow seamlessly and learning will increase as students participate as active learners. Please bring your curriculum materials. Note: Smart board software is free to Smart board users and can be purchased for use on other boards Recommended for: Anyone interested in using a SMART board SMART Board Content Creation Camp If you are an intermediate or advanced user of SMART Notebook software, and are enthusiastic about designing lesson activities using Notebook Software to increase student engagement and participation and are looking for additional ways to create professional, interactive and sharable lesson activities for your SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard, then register now! In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to enhance your SMART Notebook Software skills and create content that you will be able to use with your students and share with other educators. Bring your curriculum materials and a flash drive to save your work and you will be ready to engage your students with the interactive units you create. Recommended for: Intermediate and Advanced SMART Board users. Note: This class does not cover basic training UDL-What is it and When Can I Start Using These Strategies Would you like to learn what the acronym UDL means and why so many grants want this type of model in your curriculum? Learn the “ins” and “outs” of how to use Universal Design for Learning in your classroom. Begin to see how these techniques allow all students to learn and grow academically as well as socially and emotionally. Perfect your use of menus to promote learning. This workshop is for anyone that works in an educational setting. Recommended for: All teachers. Enhancing your UDL Treasure Chest with Thinkfinity Are you using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) model to teach your students? If you are, you are constantly adding to those Treasure Chest activities. Let’s add some more materials using the Thinkfinity portal. Spend a few hours and come away from this workshop ready to put more treasures in that chest for your students. Recommended for: Teachers of grades K-8, special education teachers Internet Resources and Strategies to Enhance and Excite Learning in Grades 3-5 You are charged with the responsibility of teaching all of the subjects to your students. You know there are excellent teaching materials out there but you don't have the time to spend looking for them. Spend the day with us and explore high quality resources to enhance your lessons for math, language arts, science and social studies. You will leave with a wealth of activities and strategies to use throughout the year to keep your students totally engaged and improve learning. Recommended for: teachers of grades 3-5 and self-contained special ed
iPad for Special Educators Recommended for: All teachers. Using the iPad for Language Arts What’s the best way to utilize the iPad for reading as well as writing? The iPad puts reading and writing resources literally at your fingertips. See reading programs that can be used on the iPad and review Apps that can be used for ILA on many different student levels. We will discuss how to setup learning stations, aid in instruction, and manipulate the iPad for effective and efficient use in the classroom. Lesson planning will also be discussed Please bring your own iPad running the latest version iOS. top of page Moodle Advanced Take your Moodle site beyond the basics. In this training you'll learn how to add more advanced features such as lessons, workshops, adding additional modules, and how to make a Moodle a more interactive experience for your students. Edmodo: Safe Social Networking Would your students benefit from a digital backpack? Looking for a secure online place for student collaboration? Want to give online quizzes? Need a digital library? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, consider Edmodo (www.edmodo.com) for your classroom. This free service allows you and your students to connect and share files, links- all things digital. This class will include the creation/management of groups, posts, the library, assignments, quizzes, and student badges. Recommended for: Teachers of 4-12 |
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