Event Date Mar 14, 2015
The Center for Teacher Innovation (CTI) is committed to assisting teachers in creating highly-engaging and progressive classroom environments through our professional development opportunities. Please join us for a day of creating new possibilities, while applying key learning to advance innovative practice.
Learning-focused sessions are aligned and integrated with Common Core State Standards and will include topics such as:
Transforming Learning With Gooru
Gooru is a free, online repository of open and customizable units, lessons, and resources. Participants in this workshop will become fluent in the use of Gooru features by building their own Gooru collection.
Management for Learnings’ Sake
Apply engagement strategies for the purpose of organizing and managing your elementary classroom through the lens of communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking.
Parents, Students, and Teachers: Creating the Dream Team
Parents, students, and teachers play a critical role as a team in creating successful academic outcomes and extraordinary schools. The rigor of the Common Core supports this need for a team approach. This session will communicate positive, practical, and personal ways for creating a Dream Team where high-quality interactions support student achievement and build fulfilling partnerships.
Unlocking the Power of the New ELA/ELD Framework
Are you new to understanding the ELD Standards? Looking to increase your understanding of the new proficiency standards? This session will provide time and resources so that you can begin to “apply” the new standards.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Management for Teachers
Participants will learn research-based practical approaches to manage stress and increase well-being in themselves and their students!
Digital Teaching and Learning
The 4 Cs – collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking – are 21st century skills students need to succeed. Learn how technology can be used to support real-world learning that will equip your students with the skills they need to thrive in their world. Leave with ready-lessons on Digital Citizenship, and new knowledge of online resources that you will use daily with your students.
Managing Differentiated Instruction in the Common Core Classroom
How do you define what differentiation is and is not? Explore the impact of a growth mindset while adjusting and modifying instruction. Examine student work samples to identify and design a differentiation plan. You’ll leave with a variety of strategies and resources to enhance the practice of differentiating in the Common Core classroom.
Academic Language Development Across the Curriculum: Grades 6-12
This session will provide an overview of the importance of connecting academic language development to content area learning. The participants will engage in the use of three of the most effective language development strategies that can be implemented in all content areas.
Engaging Students for Critical Learning
Do you want to learn how to effectively use engagement techniques, inspired by Doug Lemov’s Teach Like a Champion and powered by digital tools that support and promote Common Core initiatives? Join us as we practice ways to begin developing a highly-engaged, rigorous and relevant learning environment where students are taking responsibility for and ownership of their own learning.
Dynamic Teaching Strategies That Bring Learning Alive!
Stop and stay awhile for proven management and engagement strategies that will bring out the dynamism in your teaching and allow your students to make learning come alive. In this session you will also see exemplary work at the most innovative level, produced by and starring some stunningly creative students fit for the Common Core! (Though slanted toward the secondary level, appropriate for all grade levels.)
Feedback: You Can’t Improve Without It!
Based on the book, How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students by Susan M. Brookhart, feedback is a powerful tool if effectively done. Good feedback gives students information they need so they understand where they are in their learning and what to do next. This session will explore the topic of feedback and guide teachers to provide feedback to students based on their school work.
Implementing Cooperative Learning in the Classroom
Cooperative learning involves so much more than just having students work together. You can build student self-esteem; teach social skills and your content while decreasing behavior issues through effective student engagement strategies. Participants will actively experience at least 10 different structures for cooperative learning in any classroom.
Future Technology and 30 Top Teacher Apps
What emerging technology (augmented reality, 3D printing, etc.) excites you the most? Discover how to leverage technology in fun and clever ways. Plus, learn about 30 apps that can be useful in any classroom.
Common Core and Special Education: The Junction of Two Roads
This 90-minute session will focus on pathways for providing access to and showing progress in the Common Core State Standards for Students with Disabilities (SWD). Topics may include understanding access to Common Core State Standards in classrooms serving diverse learners, writing Common Core aligned IEPs and applicable resources.
Tentative Schedule:
7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. - Registration
8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. - Opening and Welcome
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. - Session 1
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. - Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. - Session 2
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. - Lunch
1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. - Keynote Speaker/Vendor Donated Giveaways