Upcoming EERC Courses
The Power of Our Words
2-Part Course
November 18 & 20, 2019
4:00 - 6:00
Instructor: Debbie Kasson
Audience: K-5 Teachers
Teachers in attendance will receive a copy of the book, The Power of Our Words.
Coding in the Elementary Classroom
November 19, 2019
4:00 - 6:00
Instructor: Abigail Mchugh
Audience: K-5 Teachers
Discipline Strategies
November 21, 2019
4:00 - 6:00
Instructor: Tracy Lyman (ELT)
Audience: K-12 Teachers & Staff
Participation Tool Kit
4:00 - 6:00
Instructors: Emily Hungarter & Tricia Wirth
Audience: 3-12 Teachers
Tired of pair and share or hearing crickets after cold calling on your students? Develop new tools and strategies for getting all students to participate every day! This course will provide participants with an assortment of strategies and tools for actively engaging all students.
Toxic Stress in the Classroom: Building a Trauma Sensitive Classroom
December 2 & 9, 2019
4:00-6:00
Instructor: Karen Dudgeon, LCSW
Target Audience: K-12 Teachers & Staff
Social-Emotional Learning and Trauma-Informed Schools are popular buzz words, but what do we really know about fostering a positive learning environment when so often students seem to be emotional, reactive, frustrated, and excitable? This workshop will include helping teachers care for themselves AND THEN their students by working to create a trauma-sensitive classroom.
All of those in attendance will receive a copy of the book, The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom.
Trauma Awareness in Education
4:00 - 7:00
Instructor: Tracy Lyman (ELT)
Audience: K-12 Teachers & Staff
Increasingly our students experience exposure to multiple or prolonged traumatic events, such as child abuse, neglect, and exposure to domestic violence. This experience directly affects their social and emotional development and negatively impacts their behavior and academic growth in school. It is becoming more common that educators are faced with the challenges of connecting with and educating students who have endured complex trauma. Often the hurt that is felt by the student is placed on the educator and it can manifest in a variety of ways. This seminar will engage participants in understanding the roots of trauma, its prevalence and causes, the characteristics and associated behaviors, as well as learning how to work with traumatized students in a proactive and positive way.
Quizlet Live - Game Based Digital Learning & Assessment
4:00 - 6:00
Instructors: Robert Potter & Jessica Loy
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Come ready to add a new digital learning tool to your classroom. Participants will understand all of the different features of Quizlet for use in and out of class. Including being able to find premade Quizlet sets to use in class, create their own sets for QuizletLive and be able to link Quizlet study sets to Google Classroom.
Schoology 101
December 11, 2019
4:00 - 6:00
Instructors: Robert Potter & Ken Lyman
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Learn to make the most of Schoology and learn to:
- Create and score computer-based assessments using Schoology.
-Create assignments for classwork or homework on Schoology.
-Implement and run discussion boards using Schoology for specific assignments, current events topics, etc.
- Utilize Schoology for professional growth to join discussion and learning groups with other professionals from around the country.
Participation Tool Kit 2
4:00 - 6:00
Instructors: Emily Hungarter & Trica Wirth
Participants will be able to take away new strategies for engaging all learners in the classroom. Active and passive participation strategies will be taught and a chance to create classroom materials will be given. Participants will be taught participation strategies through the lens of an actual student. Several strategies will be shared and then participants will have time to assess which strategies best work for their classroom and create appropriate materials for immediate use.
*Participation in the first offering is not required to take this course.
Gimkit - Game Based Digital Learning & Assessment
4:00 - 6:00
Instructors: Robert Potter & Jessica Loy
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Make the most of using Gimkit in your classroom Participants will understand all of the different features of Gimkit for use in and out of class. Be able to find premade Gimkits to use in class or create your own sets for Gimkit and import graphics and images. Participants will also be able to import pre-made study sets from QuizletLive directly into Gimkit for immediate use; as well as be able to link Gimkit assignments to Google Classroom and Schoology
Creating a Positive Classroom Environment
4:00 - 6:00
Instructor: Tracy Lyman
Audience: K-12 Teachers & Staff
A positive classroom environment is a major component of effective teaching. When students are comfortable in a learning situation, the likelihood of success is greatly increased. This seminar will address verbal communication, positive phrasing, motivation theory, and learner needs. Activities will help participants to integrate these topics into their instructional practices.
Essential Elements of Effective Instruction (EEEI)*
January 13 & 27, 2020
4:00 - 6:00
Instructor: Erin Shaffer
Audience: K-12 New Hires
*Required for all new teachers to take within their first two years of employment.
Help your students meet the Common Core Learning Standards using the EEEI lesson format. Use the EEEI format to evaluate and critique lesson plans. Design a lesson aligned to the Next Generation & Common Core Learning Standards. Provide evidence of effective teaching for the APPR.
Teacher Wellness: Put Your Face Mask on First
4:00-6:00
Instructor: Karen Dudgeon, LCSW
Audience: K-12 Teachers & Staff
School staff spend their day taking care of others, often at a toll on themselves. Learn to better navigate the occupational hazards we face every day. Learn to combat stress and make self-care a priority.
All those in attendance will receive a copy of the book, Happy Teachers Change the World.
Schoology 102 - Assessments
January 16, 2020
4:00 - 6:00
Instructors: Robert Potter and Ken Lyman
Audience: K-12 Teachers familiar with Schoology basics.
Differentiated Instruction*
4:00-6:00
Instructors: Clare McGovern-Lind & Kristy Gault
Audience: K-12 New Hires
*Required for all new teachers to take within their first two years of employment.
Gain a deeper understanding of what differentiated instruction and specially designed instruction are, and the role they play in the classroom. Learn how to implement or strengthen the use of differentiated instruction within the classroom. Create differentiated plans from a given lesson or bring a lesson of your own to enhance by differentiation.
Is it Sensory or Behavior? A Look at Basic Sensory Integration Issues.
4:00 - 6:00
Instructors: Lilly Kinback and Emily Stewart
Target Audience: K-3 Teachers
Get an overview of Sensory Integration, Strategies, Equipment, and Data Collection for use in the classroom. Be able to recognize students with sensory issues and strategies to help them succeed.
Schoology Assignments
4:00 - 6:00
Instructors: Robert Potter and Ken Lyman
Target Audience: K-12 Teachers familiar with Schoology basics.
Learn to create assignments in Schoology for use as homework, projects, test prep, bell-ringers, exit tickets etc. Learn how students will be able to use Schoology in conjunction with their student school Google Drives. Gain knowledge on how to send pre-existing assignments in Microsoft Word, PDF format etc. to their school Google Drive to then be linked to Schoology without having to start from scratch. Participants will be able to link their Schoology assignments to their SchoolTools account.
The Power of Morning Meeting: Changing the Culture of Your Classroom
4:00 - 6:00
Instructors: Lisa Rossi and Jessica Carl
Target Audience: K-5 Teachers
Based on practices and principals of the Responsive Classroom. Teachers will understand the purpose and many benefits of the Morning Meeting. They will understand the 4 components of the morning meeting: Greeting, Sharing, Group Activity, and Morning Message.
Constructivist Teaching & Learning
4:00 - 6:00
Instructor: Tracy Lyman (ELT)
Target Audience: K-12 Teachers
This seminar will address one of the priorities of the NYS Teaching Standards. Teachers must consider how each student learns. Understanding how what Constructivist Teaching and Learning means in the classroom. Teachers must implement a variety of instructional strategies. Participants will explore how students learn when they “build” learning for themselves. When students are asked to classify, analyze, predict and create, they begin to think critically and ask questions in order to understand the complex material presented to them in school and in the world.
Educators Valuing Diversity
4:00 - 6:00
Instructor: Brad McKinny (ELT)
Target Audience: K-12 Teachers and Staff
This seminar is designed to help teachers educate their students who will be living in a world of diverse communities. It will promote awareness of global differences while identifying shared values. It encourages the understanding of one’s own culture as the doorway to understanding other cultures.
Poverty's Effect on Students
4:00 - 6:00
Instructor: Tracy Lyman (ELT)
Target Audience: K-12 Teachers and Staff
This seminar examines the relationship between poverty, achievement, and education. It engages educators in conversations about how they can effectively begin viewing their role as a crucial impetus for student learning in their classroom and school.
Digging Deeper Into Sensory Interventions & Techniques
4:00 - 6:00
Instructors: Lilly Kinback and Emily Stewart
Target Audience: Teachers that have already taken - Is it Sensory or Behavior?
Join us as we continue to develop strategies for sensory interventions and techniques as well as the use of sensory equipment and appropriate data collection.
Understanding English Language Learners
4:00 - 6:00
Instructor: Kristen Powers (ELT)
Target Audience: K-12 Teachers & Staff that work and interact with ENL students.
As a teacher, what can you do with students in your class who are learning English? How can you help them succeed? This seminar focuses on understanding the stages of verbal acquisition and identifying variables that influence the language acquisition process for ENLs. Strategies that have been shown to successfully engage ENLs are examined and instructional and assessment accommodations are demonstrated.
Strategies for Student Engagement
4:00 - 6:00
Instructor: Tracy Lyman (ELT)
Target Audience: K-12 Teachers
This seminar addresses one of the most critical instructional practices upon which student success is based. Teachers new to the profession may be challenged in how to plan for this in their everyday teaching. The seminar will focus on strategies that will help them sustain wonder, enthusiasm, and perseverance. This seminar will provide a practical model for understanding what our students want and need in their classrooms
21st Century Skills for Teachers
4:00 to 6:00
Instructor: Tracy Lyman (ELT)
Target Audience: K-12 Teachers
This seminar is designed to address one of the NYS Teaching Standards priorities by helping teachers understand that knowledge is expanding at a more rapid rate than ever anticipated. Information and communication is changing how we teach and how students learn. Routine skills are no longer the basis for the workplace or the classroom. The seminar will emphasize that today’s students and teachers must be able to communicate, share, and use information in a number of diverse ways.