Seguin ISD Professional Learning
February 2020
Hello, February!
February is a month filled with myriad of emotions as teachers and students prepare for the high energy pace of the spring semester. Professional learning opportunities for this month will be provided by the Learning and Leadership Services coordinators and specialists at individual campuses.
Professional Learning Needs Assessment
Please take a few minutes to provide feedback on your professional learning needs. This information will be used to create sessions for Summer Symposium and plan for the 2020-2021 school year. Thank you!
Suggested Reading
Gary Chapman presents The Five Love Languages of Teenagers -- practical guidance to help parents, teachers, and mentors discover and express the teen's primary love language.
From ascd.com: Since all teachers can benefit from visiting other classrooms and seeing what worked and what didn't, imagine how much you'd learn from thousands of visits. But you don't have to do that because here's a book that has distilled lessons from more than 17,000 classroom visits into immediately useful teaching practices that can be used with students in every grade level and subject area.
From ascd.com: Formative assessment is one of the best ways to increase student learning and enhance teacher quality. In the updated 2nd edition of this practical guide for school leaders, authors Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart define formative assessment as an active, continual process in which teachers and students work together—every day, every minute—to gather evidence of learning, always keeping in mind three guiding questions: Where am I going? Where am I now? What strategy or strategies can help me get to where I need to go?
Eduhero Course: Personality Typing and GT Students
This course will introduce you to Myers-Briggs personality typing and patterns in types among adults and GT students. This course will count toward any needed 6 hour GT update hours.
Eduhero Course: Tools for Struggling Students
Explore free apps and tools that you can use in your classroom today to support your struggling students.
Professional Learning
Danica Murillo
Director of Professional Learning
Email: dmurillo@seguin.k12.tx.us
Website: http://www.seguin.k12.tx.us/
Location: 1221 East Kingsbury Street, Seguin, TX, USA
Phone: 830-401-8672
Twitter: @DMurilloSISD