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Centers in Action: Make Small Group Teaching a Reality
RTI, Differentiated Instruction, learning styles, interventions, enrichment...Educators have a lot to do! Learn how Centers help you fit it all in! This training is geared to help you discover time-saving and work-saving management strategies to make centers work effectively.
Penny Anderson, M.Ed., provides a brief overview of the fundamental how's and why's of centers, and will spend the majority of the day focusing on different types of center activities. Participants will be given new ideas to use in their own classrooms, as well as collaborate with each other to create their own original center topics and activities.
Upon leaving this workshop you will have a clear understanding of the features of meaningful learning centers (Discover the difference between Centers, Literacy Centers, and Stations), how to design and manage self-running learning centers, and how to create developmentally appropriate center activities for all students. Discover how Center routines and procedures will set your students on a path to independent learning.
Curriculum Mapping
This is a research-based workshop that can provide tools to assist you in meeting the requirements of No Child Left Behind. A curriculum map – which graphically organizes the skills and content covered in each course, department, and grade level – is a powerful tool. Teachers can share ideas and find connections with colleagues while they plan and work more effectively in aligning standards to instruction and assessment. Armed with the most current and enhanced curriculum data, educators and administrators alike are empowered to advance and improve the learning experiences of all their students. Participants will not only learn the curriculum mapping process, they will be given time to begin developing a curriculum map of their own.
Response To Interventions
The basic tenets of an Response to Interventions approach is prevention and early intervention which involves determining whether all students are learning and progressing adequately when provided with high quality instruction and intervention. This session will support participants in examining the need for Integrated Systems and Response to Intervention models through a review of state and national educational data, research, and legislation; understanding the essential components of integrated and tiered systems, specifically curriculum,instruction, and intervention; reflecting upon current local practices and the relationship with the essential components of an integrated systems; and discussing the relevant professional development needs and mechanisms needed to support change.