Central New York/Oswego County Teacher Center Spring 2016 Workshops octc.org. Workshop Attendance Policy:

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1 Central New York/Oswego County Teacher Center Spring 2016 Workshops octc.org Workshop Attendance Policy: If you are unable to attend a workshop for which you are registered, you need to give the Teacher Center a minimum of 48 hours notice. We realize that emergencies arise at the last minute. If that happens, please send us an letting us know. Many of our workshops are full to capacity with wait lists of people wanting to attend. With advance notice of a cancellation, we are able to offer that seat to someone else. Please monitor your local TV/radio stations during inclement weather. We will cancel workshops based on the closures and cancellations of the school district in which the workshop site is located: Teacher Center (NYSUT) 4983 Brittonfield Parkway, East Syracuse, New York Follow East Syracuse Minoa closures and cancellations Workshop Location: Teacher Center: NYSUT 4983 Brittonfield Parkway, East Syracuse, New York Registration Procedure: To attend a workshop, tcregistration@oswegoboces.org Please include ALL of the following information for each person registering: Name School district School building address Grade level: Elementary or Secondary Position: Teacher, Teaching Assistant, or Administrator MLP: If your district requires MLP registration, please register with the Teacher Center before registering on your District s MLP site to ensure there is space available in the workshop. You will need to contact the Teacher Center: tcregistration@oswegoboces.org confirming your registration upon receiving MLP approval. If we have not received your confirmation one week prior to the workshop date, you may forfeit your seat. 1

2 Differentiated Instruction: Follow up This workshop is designed as a follow up to the original Differentiated Instruction class. It will incorporate real life differentiated instruction practices and will aim to help teachers improve DI strategies. Participants should bring questions and real life challenges to be discussed, talked about, and worked through as a group. Instructor will incorporate additional strategies to further add to your DI toolbox. Presenter: Jennifer Rich Walters Date: April 20, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203 Time: 4:30 7:30 PM Audience: K 12 Educators *Prerequisite Must have completed DI: Foundations Online Offering NYSUT: Online Workshop Facilitating Classroom Discussions Participants will learn how to implement effective verbal and nonverbal communication techniques to help them encourage, redirect, engage, and challenge students in successful classroom discussions that enhance student learning. Presenter: TBA Date: May 2 June 2, 2016 Time: online (5 hours) Fee: Free Audience: All teachers 2

3 Book Talk: Teach Like a Pirate This book talk will cover strategies that Dave Burgess outlines in his book including: P Passion I Immersion R Rapport A Ask & Analyze T Transformation E Enthusiasm Presenter: Cindy Pauldine Date: May 2, 9, 16, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203 MUST ATTEND ALL THREE DATES Time: 4:30 7:30 PM (total 9 hours) Fee: Individually wrapped snacks Audience: Teachers Limited seating *The book will be distributed on the first evening Engaging Students: Creating Green Screen Video in Your Classroom Create amazing student driven, directed and edited videos placing them anywhere in the world using a green screen. See how putting your students in the directors chair facilitate authentic learning and assessment opportunities and results in Oscar worthy productions. *Please bring an ipad. You will need to download the following app before coming to the workshop: Green Screen by Do Ink for iphone Presenter: Brenda Klaben Date: May 3, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203 Time: 4:30 6:30 PM Fee: Free 2 hour workshop Audience: All Educators Limited seating NYSUT: Deepening Knowledge of the Learning Standards in the Content Areas The instructional shifts, called for in the NYS Learning Standards, require teachers to have an expensive understanding of the standards in order to create classroom instruction that balances student learning and application. Participants will learn to use a step by step process to improve student learning as well as turn the standards into teachable learning targets. Each participant will need to bring a copy of the NYS ELA/Literacy Standards. Presenter: Date: Time: Fee: Audience: Sharon Diliberto May 3, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203A 4:30 7:30 PM Free 3 hour workshop All Educators 3

4 Learning Styles & Modalities This training will familiarize participants with various ways in which students learn. It will also enable educators in assisting students in maximizing their learning potential. This is a great prerequisite for a Differentiated Instruction course. The following components will be covered: Dr. Howard Gardner s The Eight Multiple Intelligences Dr. Rita Dunn s The Dunn and Dunn Model Right/left brain characteristics Auditory, visual and haptic (hands on) learners Don Lowry s True Colors Presenter: Date: Time: Fee: Audience: Jennifer Rich Walters May 4 & May 11, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203A 4:30 7:30 PM Individually wrapped snacks or popcorn All Educators NYSUT: Collegial Inquiry: A Focus on Protocols Protocols are the vehicles for building the skills and culture necessary for collaborative teamwork and are a powerful opportunity to learn with and from one another within a collaborative environment. Protocols consist of agreed upon guidelines and work to build trust among team members by doing substantive work. Protocols offer the opportunity for educators to engage in an insightful conversation about teaching and learning. Presenter: Stan Finkle Date: May 10, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203 Time: 4:30 7:30 Audience: All Educators 4

5 Book Talk: Why before How Singapore Math Computations Strategies (3 6) Your students know that 2x3=6, but do they know why? Do they have the mathematical reasoning skills to see them through more than just the next test? They will once they discover the powerful computation strategies described in Jana Hazekamp s book, adapted from the acclaimed Singapore approach for learning mathematics. The strategies focus on the why of learning in mathematics. This book talk will allow teachers to explore strategies together and develop an implementation plan for their classrooms. Strategies build concept of place value, encourage real understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and can be used for whole class instruction or small intervention groups. Participants will evaluate their use and report successes and challenges that they face in their instruction. Presenter: Anne Marie Voutsinas Date: May 10 & May 17, Center (NYSUT) Suite 203A Fee: Individually wrapped snack or box of popcorn Audience: Grades 3 6 educators Limited seating *The book will be distributed on the first evening Technology: Augmented Reality (3 8) Participants in this class will have the opportunity to explore Augmented Reality in several different settings: field trips, books, assignments, and building interactive lesson plans. They will design an Augmented Reality experience of their own using a word from their word wall, a book cover, or something that they create and share with others. Please download Aurasma app on your ipad prior to the worship. *You will need to bring your own ipad to this workshop* Presenter: Brenda Klaben Date: May 11, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203 Time: 4:30 6:30 pm Fee: Free 2 hour workshop Audience: All educators 5

6 NYSUT: Instructional Supports for English Language Learners English language learners (ELLs) are the fastest growing student population in schools, and they must be considered when New York State ELA/Literacy and Math Standards are being implemented. Geared for general education teachers, this seminar will help participants design effective content area instruction while they explore research based strategies, instructional guidelines and resources for helping ELLs succeed. Presenter: Areli Schermerhorn Date: May 17, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203 Audience: All educators NYSUT: Reading Comprehension: Understanding Text Structures (5 12) Today s high school students tend to be very good at identifying elements of the narrative and comprehending the story. However, when other text structures such as expository or cause and effect are utilized, many students struggle with comprehension. This seminar analyzes six expository text structures and offers keys to developing the reader confidence students need to be successful in all subject areas. Presenter: Cindy Pauldine Date: May 18, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203 Audience: Grades 5 12 educators NYSUT: Guiding Struggling Readers (4 12) Becoming a competent reader and writer is essential for student success. The Balanced Literacy Approach begins with reading aloud and continues until students have developed the strategies to become independent readers. Along the way, those students who are struggling with reading must be guided. This seminar will identify the behaviors of struggling readers and suggest strategies needed to assist students in comprehending narrative and expository text. How these strategies can improve student literacy will be discussed. Finally, how these strategies can be implemented into classroom instruction to help struggling readers gain control and begin to self monitor their reading will be explained. Presenter: Cindy Pauldine Date: June 1, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203 Audience: Grades 4 12 educators 6

7 Teach Like a Pirate (4 12) Presented by Dave Burgess, author of Teach Like a Pirate. This workshop is a super high energy, entertaining presentation with a heavy emphasis on increasing student engagement and using creative, innovative strategies. In addition, it has as inspirational message about how and why to become more passionate about the profession and how to create life changing experiences for students. Presenter: Dave Burgess Date: June 2, NYSUT Building Large Conference Room Time: 8:30 3:30 (lunch is on your own) Fee: Free Audience: Educators Grades 4 12 Very Limited Seating This is collaboration with Cayuga Onondaga and Center State Teacher Centers. National Board Awareness National Board Certification is the most rigorous, coveted and respected certification available in education! It is part of the growing education reform movement that is advancing student learning, improving teaching and making schools better!! As a National Board Certified Teacher, you will join the ranks of the nation s most accomplished teachers who help students develop the necessary skills to thrive in school, in the workplace and in the 21 st century global economy! This workshop will introduce you to the process of National Board and encourage you to explore its many possibilities and benefits. Presenter: Maria Fenton Date: June 6, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203 Time: 4:30 6:30 pm Fee: Free 2 hour workshop Audience: All teachers Technology: Ed Puzzle (3 12) Come learn how to clip, edit and add questions to your video or to one that you find online to engage your students and check for understanding. Find out how long your students viewed the video, if they skipped a question and how long the assignment took them to complete. Participants will create an account, select a video and add questions. *Please bring a laptop (preferred) or ipad. Please download the Ed Puzzle app* (this is for students only). *You will need to bring your own ipad/laptop to this workshop* Presenter: Brenda Klaben Date: June 8, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203 Time: 4:30 6:30 pm Fee: Free 2 hour workshop Audience: Grades 3 12 educators Limited seating 7

8 NYSUT: Understanding Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder Ending the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their non disabled peers requires addressing the essential factors that can influence their success. This three hour training provides up to date information on the clinical and associated features of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs), including Asperger s Disorder. Attention will be given to how these disorders manifest themselves and present unique instructional and learning challenges within education settings. The seminar goes beyond the core features of the disorder and covers evidence based proactive strategies for helping children and adolescents with ASDs succeed in school. **Please note: This workshop is for in service credit only and not NYS Certification** Presenter: Stan Finkle Date: June 9, Teacher Center (NYSUT) Suite 203 Audience: All educators *Be sure you register with the Teacher Center before you register on your districts MLP system to ensure we have a seat available for you in the workshop. The Teacher Center does not directly participate in MLP and therefore cannot see that you have registered on MLP. 8