Wouldn't it be great to know that your students love coming to your class, that you have zero behavior problems, and that students' grades and state test scores are all above average? Nationally, teachers have embraced Project-Based Learning as the most effective way to engage, motivate, and educate students. Through student exploration and discovery of real-world problems and situations, students become scientists, astronauts, explorers, and entrepreneurs with Project-Based Learning. Our fully comprehensive workshops in PBL are aligned to the NSDC standards and will allow your teachers to design their own lessons and try their ideas on their fellow teachers. Call or email us for a full course description of PBL.
Don’t just “add” technology to your curriculum, make it an integral part of instruction. Interactive and hands-on, this experience will enable the participants to develop technology-based units of instruction and implement them in their classroom.
“The better you read, the better you write: the better you write, the better you read”, an old adage, but true. Classroom-proven strategies, in reading, writing, and learning, and how to implement them in every content area is the focus here. This workshop is interactive, hands-on, and employs peer learning and evaluation in making every teacher a “reading” teacher.
Problem-based learning has been proven to be an effective strategy in differentiating instruction for all grades, Kdg.-12. Learn how to challenge your students to address real-world issues and resolve realistic dilemmas. Create units that engage your students in higher order thinking and problem-solving. Participants will learn the fundamental concepts of PBL, create classroom lessons, and integrate these lessons into their instructional plans.
Learning centers are useful in all grades, Kdg.-12, and are designed for specific purposes. Creating different types of centers, tiering center activities to differentiate instruction, implementing and managing the differentiated classroom are the skills this hands-on workshop will teach and develop.
Differentiating instruction shouldn’t be just a buzzword. Teaching students at their individual instructional levels, developing and strengthening their learning styles and preferences, and providing options for learning are what this series of professional development sessions is all about. Applicable to all grade levels, Kdg. -12, and aligned to the NSDC Standards for Staff Development, these sessions will engage participants in learning about and applying Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, Bloom’s Taxonomy of Critical Thinking, and student learning styles to create differentiated units and lessons. These instructional units will employ various DI strategies such as tiered lessons, anchoring activities, learning centers, and learning contracts. Specific competencies that will be developed include:
Comprehension, analysis and application of the basic principles and concepts of differentiated instruction.
Creation of differentiated lessons and units and development of a plan for implementation.
Creation of tiered assignments and activities to differentiate instruction.
Application of the Differentiated Instruction strategy to teachers’ curriculum.
Collaboration with other teachers to create differentiated lessons and units.
Sharing of the units and lessons created with other teachers in their respective schools and subject areas.
A step-by-step methodology for creating interdisciplinary-thematic units and how to implement them in the classroom. Participants from all grades, K-12, will create I.T. units using their own curriculum materials, tailored for immediate implementation in their classroom.
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