Professional Development Offerings
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H.O.T. Literacy: |
H.O.T. Literacy promotes personal and independent as well as interactive learning in all subject areas. Learn how to implement student-centered teaching strategies as well as student-applied learning techniques specific to all subject areas. Help students actively learn how to learn to: read, take notes, master content, and study on their own. Focus the achievement of learning standards on the student-learner rather than the teaching-sage. Specific T’nT strategies (a TLC* coined term for Tactile ‘nteration with Texts), shifts the burden and the responsibility for learning outcomes from teacher to student. H.O.T. Literacy not only teaches students how to learn but also how to gain a sense of personal control by using texts strategically. In the TLC literacy-based classroom, there are always three people present: the teacher, the student, and the author (of the text) who come together in an interactive dynamic. (What teacher wouldn’t want the help of “another pair of hands” or better yet, “another mind”?) In this course, everything you ever heard about brain-based learning, learning styles, higher order thinking, and standards-based education, not only makes sense, but also reaps results. If you want to dramatically reduce the numbers of students who now claim: “I read it but I don’t understand it” or “I paid attention but I don’t get it,” go to www.TLCdifference.com. Click on “TLC in Literacy-Based Schools” and the various other presentations for a preview sampling of topics to be included in this all-inclusive course offering. Presenter: David Yacavace Date/Time: Sunday, April 20 through Wednesday, April 23, 2008 from 9:00 to 4:00. Cost: Member School Staff $100, Associate Members $125 and Nonmembers $150. SAU 36 Staff - no charge, but please still register with NCES. Lunch: Refreshments and lunch provided. Graduate Credit (optional): Three (3) Plymouth State University credits are $125/each plus $25 registration fee ($400 total for in-state). Registration: Becky Ring at 466-5437 or email becky@ncedservices.org. Registration deadline: April 11, 2008. |
| Teaching for Mastery Learing |
Meet the adequate yearly progress (AYP) requirements of state and federally mandated testing. Increase student active time on learning through standards-based educational practices. In addition, engage students themselves in the evaluation and monitoring of their own learning. Satisfy the communication skills demands of the twenty-first century workplace. Help students to be competitive in a world economy by developing the thinking skills of Bloom’s Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Assist students in becoming proficient in both presentation and writing skills necessary for job security and promotion. Take the challenge set by the National Commission on Writing (The CollegeBoard) to double the amount of student writing in all subject areas. Help students learn content-specific subject matter through activities that utilize writing as: 1) a teaching tool, 2) a learning strategy, and 3) an assessment measure. Learn how to increase student writing time without necessarily increasing teacher correcting time. In this course, the theory behind standards-based education is translated into manageable, realistic and proven teaching strategies and classroom practices. If you want to reconcile the challenges of general or universal standards with the realities of individual student differences, go to www.TLCdifference.com for an overview of the practical strategies and techniques covered in this course. Click on the various presentations for a preview sampling of the topics to be included in this all-in-one course offering. Presenter: David Yacavace Date/Time: Thursday and Friday evenings, May 8, 9, 29 & 30 from 5:00 to 9:00 and Saturdays May 10 & 31, 2008 from 9:00 to 4:00. Cost: Member School Staff $100, Associate Members $125 and Nonmembers $150. SAU 36 Staff - no charge, but please still register with NCES. Lunch: Refreshments and lunch provided. Graduate Credit (optional): Three (3) Plymouth State University credits are $125/each plus $25 registration fee ($400 total for in-state). Registration: Becky Ring at 466-5437 or email becky@ncedservices.org Registration deadline: April 25, 2008. |
Using the Concerns Based Adoption Model to Promote School Improvement Initiatives
You have done the research, chosen the model that you think has the most chance for success, begun the process of gathering resources for a project that has potential for improving student outcomes. Now how do you lead your staff through implementation of the initiative? How can you measure success in launching a project that has the potential to make a difference to staff, students and parents, and understand what to do when the process is not going well?
You are invited to join us for a day of orientation, information and discussion about the CBAM model. You will leave with an understanding of people's concerns when adopting something new, and information about measuring both personal and organizational progress toward implementation of a new program or practice.
Presenter: Deborah Roody, CAGS
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 9:00 to 3:00, 8:30 registration and refreshments at NCES, Gorham, NH
Cost: $100 or $80 if you register by March 31.
Registration: Becky Ring at 466-5437 or becky@ncedservices.org
With support from the CEIL Project
Earth Science by Design is a two-day professional development program to enhance the capacity of middle and high school teachers of Earth science enabling them to:
- Teach for deeper, enduring understanding
- Teach to the big ideas in Earth and Space Science
- Use visualizations and satellite imagery to promote student understanding
Earth Science by Design (ESBD) is based on the "Understanding by Design" approach developed by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.Teachers learn the principles of "backward design" and create an Earth science unit they will teach.
Participants will receive a $75 stipend, Understanding by Design, Understanding by Design Workbook, along with ESBD handouts.
Instructor: Dr. Mark Turski has been teaching earth system science and science education classes at Plymouth State University for 17 years after six years of teaching earth science and physical science in the South Portland, ME school system. He also serves as the Director of Preparing Earth System Science Teachers of Tomorrow grant which is part of The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA) and NSF’s Geo-Teach project.
NCES PDC, Gorham: Saturdays, April 5 and May 3
Sugar River PDC, Claremont: March 1 and March 15
Greater Manchester PDC: March 8 and March 22
Southwest Ed Support Center, Keene: April 19 & May 10
Time : 9:00 to 3:00, registration and refreshment 8:30 to 9:00. Lunch will be provided.
Registration: For NCES/Gorham, contact Becky at 466-5437 or becky@ncedservices.org. For other locations, visit center links above.
Exploring Science Process Skills
For more than thirty years, the Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry has been educating teachers, administrators, and professional developers about the theory and practice of inquiry-based teaching and learning. We have witnessed firsthand the power of science coming alive and having real meaning for students and teachers when they focus on the questions of science, rather than just the answers.
In the Process Skills workshop, teachers will work to develop their understanding of the central role of the process skills of science in learning scientific concepts. They see what those skills look like in action by trying them out themselves. They will then see how students use them at various developmental levels. Participants will then consider how to make changes in science activities that will help students develop their skills to higher levels. Geared to middle school, but applicable to grades 3 to 9.
Presenter: Kim Leeman has taught life science to eighth graders at Southside Middle School in the Manchester, NH for twenty years. Her credentials include a BS in Biology and a Master of Science in Biology and in Secondary Education. She has worked extensively on science curriculum revision since 1995 and is currently the Science Curriculum Chair for the district.
Dates/Time: April 4, from 9:00 to 3:00 with registration and refreshments at 8:30
Cost: $25. Lunch is provided.
Registration: Contact Becky Ring at 466-5437 or becky@ncedservices.orgDistinguished Math Educator Series
Graduate credit option: Graduate credit is available for those who attend the entire series. Additional coursework and fees apply ($135/credit x 2 times plus $25 registration fee). Contact matt@ncedservices.org for more information.
Algebra Across the Grades
Presenter: Betty Erickson, Educational Consultant
Focus: Grades 3-8
Using the Navigations Series, participants will come away with instructional strategies focusing on repeating and growing patterns, concepts on variable and equality, examine functions and relations, construct growing patterns using the Isosceles triangle, analyze situations with constant or varying rates of change and observe and represent patterns in an array.
Opening Up
Presenter: Caroline Herold, Educational Consultant
Focus: Grades 3-8
Many years of research indicate that most questions that are asked in the mathematics classroom are at a low cognitive level. By solving open-ended problems, students create and adapt solution strategies that better develop and connect their mathematical knowledge. Attendees will look at how to develop open-process and open-ended questions from closed, skill-based problems often found in traditional programs.
Proportionality:
More Than Two Equal Ratios
Presenter: Christine Downing, Math Consultant NH DOE
Focus: Grades 3-10
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in their Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (2000) proposes an emphasis on proportionality in the middle grades. Proportional reasoning is evident through many areas of the elementary and middle level mathematics curricula, such as percents, similarity, scaling, linear equations, slope, and probability. Several of the GLEs have connections to proportionality. Join in this session and gather materials that you can share with colleagues and use in the classroom to promote proportional reasoning with all students.
Mathematical Tools & Strategies for Integrating the Process Strands
Presenter: Connie Upschulte, Pennichuck Middle School
Focus: Grades 3-8
This session will introduce participants to select tools and strategies that can be used to enhance instruction of the mathematical process strands. Participants will explore mathematical research through a tool called “Curriculum Topic Study Guides.” In addition, a protocol for examining student work will be introduced which enables teachers to identify misconceptions and adapt instruction as needed. Based on the research, diagnostic probes emphasizing the mathematical process strands will be shared and designed for use before, during and after classroom instruction. Finally, various formative assessment strategies will be highlighted throughout this session.
Analyze This!
Presenter: Phil Loud, Former Mathematics Educator
Focus: Grades 3-8
Analyze This! Since the inception of the NCTM Standards, probability, statistics, and data analysis have more and more become an integral part of our mathematics curriculum. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to take a closer look at probability, statistics, and data analysis with particular emphasis given to their role in and how they span the GLEs. Finally, participants will work together in small groups on several “hands-on” activities including using the Probability Application that comes built-in to the TI-83/84 graphing calculators.
Facilitators: Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations
During the 2007-08 academic year a series of seminars will be provided by QISA. As in the past, the seminars will take place in three regions of the state; North Country, Seacoast and Concord. This year there will be two levels of seminars. Level One is for all new schools/people participating in the Follow the Child initiative that did not go to the 2006-07 seminars; and Level Two for all those schools/people that did attend last year’s seminars.
All sessions are from 8:30a.m. – noon (8:30 – 9:00 coffee)
Data Review of My Voice
(For schools that took the survey during the fall of 2007)
December 3, 2007 SERESC, Bedford, NH
December 4, 2007 North Country Educational Services
December 5, 2007 Exeter High School
Level One Seminars
(For schools/people that did not participate in Spring 2007 seminars)
Session 1, Theme: Self-Worth
January 14, 2008 SERESC, Bedford, NH
January 15, 2008 North Country Educational Services
January 16, 2008 Exeter High School
Session 2, Theme: Active Engagement
March 17, 2008 SERESC, Bedford, NH
March 18, 2008 North Country Educational Services
March 19, 2008 Exeter High School
Session 3, Theme: Purpose (for Level One and Two)
May 12, 2008 SERESC, Bedford, NH
May 13, 2008 North Country Educational Services
May 14, 2008 Exeter High School
Level Two Seminars
(For schools/people that participated in Spring 2007 seminars)
Session 1, Theme: Understanding the Dynamics of Change
September 24, 2007 SERESC, Bedford, NH
September 25, 2007 North Country Educational Services
September 26, 2007 Exeter High School
Session 2, Theme: Communication: The Key to Building Relationships
November 12, 2007 SERESC, Bedford, NH
November 13, 2007 North Country Educational Services
November 14, 2007 Exeter High School
Session 3, Theme: Sustainability, Accountability, and Reliability
February 4, 2008 SERESC, Bedford, NH
February 5, 2008 North Country Educational Services
February 6, 2008 Exeter High School
Session 4, Theme: Purpose (for Level One and Two)
May 12, 2008 SERESC, Bedford, NH
May 13, 2008 North Country Educational Services
May 14, 2008 Exeter High School
Register with the NH Department of Education by contacting Carol Angowski at cangowski@ed.state.nh.us or call 271-8392.
The courses being offered through OpenNH for $100 per course are listed online http://nheon.org/ opennh/courses.htm. The online courses run for six weeks. Optional graduate credits are available from Plymouth State University for an additional cost. Registration and more details are available online http://nheon.org/ opennh/courses.htm. Questions should be directed to the statewide coordinator for OpenNH, Stan Freeda at 271-5132 or sfreeda@ed.state.nh.us.
Meeting the ICT Literacy Standards
Customized training and technical assistance by: Paula Churchill, Technology Integrator
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Getting the most out of NWEA reports
Customized training and technical assistance by: Paula Churchill, Technology Integrator
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Need professional development for your school or district?
North Country schools may contact NCES PD Center for assistance in planning or contracting consultants for local professional development initiatives. Contact Lori Langlois at lori@ncedservices.org.
Registration
Registration questions may be directed to becky@ncedservices.org. You may register by phone by calling 800-268-5437 or 603-466-5437. Purchase order, check, Visa/Mastercard accepted.