| Session Titles |
| At Risk Learners |
Brain Based Classrooms |
Building Academic Language in Your Classroom |
Creating a Digital Rich Classroom |
| Differentiated Instruction in Mixed Ability Classrooms - Elementary |
Differentiated Instruction in Mixed Ability Classrooms - Middle/High |
Differentiated Instruction with Technology |
An Introduction to Assessment for Learning |
| Intermediate Differentiated Instruction |
Maximizing the Achievement of English Language Learners |
Reading in the Content Areas |
Teaching with the Brain in Mind |
| Teaming Rocks |
Working with Our Most Difficult and Challenging Students |
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| Session Title |
Presenter |
Description |
| At Risk Learners |
Franklin Schargel
6 hours EILA, qualifies as CE update hours
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This exciting series has been designed to provide field-tested ideas about working with at-risk students. Designed to be presented in an easy to use format and implemented quickly in classrooms, these are concise snapshots of what educators can do to keep At Risk Students from dropping out, staying in school and being successful. Teachers can apply these practical tips in their classrooms the next day.
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| Brain Based Classrooms |
Eric Jensen; 6 hours of EILA credit; qualifies as CE update hours |
The human brain is both highly receptive to positive factors as well as vulnerable to negative factors. This remarkable and practical program reveals the startling links between poverty and the latest brain/mind research. |
| Building Academic Language in Your Classroom |
Sandra Clark
6 hrs EILA; qualifies as CE update hours |
English language learners (ELLs), as well as students of poverty, often come to school with language abilities that differ from the type of language utilized in classrooms. A persistent achievement gap shows that these same students frequently struggle to comprehend grade level texts and produce grade-level writing. Teachers completing this e-Seminar will deepen their understanding of the critical role language plays in their classroom.
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Creating a Digital Rich Classroom
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Meg Ormiston
14 hrs EILA; qualifies as CE update hours
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Outside of school, today’s students are accustomed to a high level of interaction and collaboration—with one another and with technology. Inside school, we ask them to power down, assuming that we can help them achieve their fullest potential through traditional stand-and-deliver textbook-driven methods of teaching. It shouldn’t surprise us that these students are bored and disconnected from learning.
Instead of asking students to power down during class, power up your lesson plans with digital tools. Design and deliver lessons in which technology plays an integral role. Engage students in solving real-world problems while staying true to standards-aligned curricula. This webinar series provides a research base and practical strategies for using web 2.0 tools to create engaging lessons that transform and enrich content. |
Differentiated Instruction in Mixed Ability Classrooms
Available for Elementary or Middle/High |
Cindy Strickland; 6 hours EILA credit, qualifies as CE update hours |
In today’s world, where the backgrounds of our students are so diverse and their needs seemingly so numerous, teachers must find ways to consistently reach more kids more often. We can increase the likelihood of this happening by recognizing and responding to our students’ varied readiness levels for new learning, honoring and celebrating their diverse interests, and understanding their unique preferences for how they learn new information and practice new skills. Come join 25-year teaching veteran and differentiation expert Cindy Strickland for a motivating (yet sensible!) introduction to differentiation of instruction. |
| Differentiated Instruction with Technology |
Melinda Tilley; 6 hours EILA credit; qualifies for CE update hours |
This seminar will give educators a basic foundation of Differentiated Instruction and give examples and resources on various technology tools to assist teachers in technology integration. By utilizing a variety of technology, from software to Web 2.0 tools, teachers are creating a 21st century learning environment in which all students can succeed. |
| An Introduction to Assessment for Learning |
Tom Schimmer
6 Hrs EILA; qualifies as CE update hours |
This session will serve as an introduction to Assessment for Learning. Specifically, the research, the context, and the vision of how classroom assessment can play a significant role during instruction will give participants a clear understanding of the distinction between Assessments of and for Learning. In addition, participants will come to understand the keys to quality assessment as well as the important place that descriptive feedback holds throughout the learning continuum. Classroom examples of how to put theory into practice will also be shared. |
| Intermediate Differentiated Instruction |
Cindy Strickland; 6 hours EILA credit, qualifies as CET update hours
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How do teachers think about, plan for, and carry out differentiation within the context of an entire unit of study? In these sessions, teachers ready to move beyond the basics in differentiation will analyze and emulate examples of differentiation that are multi-faceted in nature and that exemplify the key differentiation principle of flexible grouping. |
| Maximizing the Achievement of English Language Learners |
Catherine Brown; 6 hours EILA credit, qualifies as CE update hours |
These four sessions look at concrete, practical ways to take the best of research and turn it into a powerful, effective program to ensure maximum achievement and participation for English language learners. Many of the strategies are simultaneously effective with all students. |
| Reading in the Content Areas |
Marilyn McGuire; 6 hours EILA credit; qualifies as CE update hours |
Reading is a gatekeeper skill. Students who have sound reading skills that can adapt to a variety of reading materials are set up for school success. Students who struggle often do so because of poor reading skills. While teachers are typically taught how to teach reading, they are usually not taught how to teach reading skills in the all-important content areas or how to address the wide ranges of reading ability in each class—ranges that only grow as students progress through the grades. This course provides research-based, specific and immediately useful strategies that teachers can use to increase student reading ability and content area knowledge. |
| Teaching with the Brain in Mind |
Eric Jensen; 6 hours of EILA credit; qualifies as CE update hours |
Eric Jensen is back with a completely revised and updated take on his classic work, featuring new research and practical strategies to enhance student comprehension and improve student achievement. This practical and research-based program focuses on seven core teaching strategies that matter most. |
| Teaming Rocks |
Jill Spencer |
Learn how to organize and facilitate your classroom learning teams – where you leverage the power of student learning.
You and your students working together can develop powerful literacy and reading strategies, understand the common core – and use critical thinking and problem solving. Use your teams to build vocabulary and engage students in powerful learning. Explore project based learning or a problem based approach to learning, Jill Spencer, author of Ten Differentiation Strategies for Building Prior Knowledge – provides a powerful and practical seminar. |
| Working with Our Most Difficult and Challenging Students |
Chris and Mark Boynton; 6 hours EILA, qualifies as CET update training |
Learn powerful approaches for dealing with the most challenging and disruptive students; strategies for dealing with students who display Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, anger management issues, and get into power struggles; how to respond effectively to noncompliant students; how to prevent most discipline problems before they occur; how to utilize the 4 critical components of classroom discipline; how to deal with non-cooperative and angry parents; and much more. |
