Fall PD Sessions
2017-2018
September
Successful Partnerships with Paraprofessionals
Focus Area: Students with Disabilities #1
Tuesday, September 5, 20174:15pm-5:45pm
Birch Conference Room
Has a paraprofessional been assigned to work with you and your class? This session will help you make the most of paraprofessional support and engage your para as an engaged teaching partner. Participants will learn strategies of engaging another professional in the classroom and how to effectively guide students towards independence through the use of a para-professional's assistance. This session is intended for BOTH Gen Ed Teachers and Ed Specialists.
Routines and Procedures, Rules and Consistent Enforcement, Community Building
Focus Area: Climate and Culture Session #1
Thursday, September 21, 2017
4:15pm-5:45pm
Birch Conference Room
In this session, participants have the opportunity to reflect and discuss current successes and challenges with their systems, routines, and procedures. More ideas and strategies will be offered and participants will leave with a plan for how to strengthen current practices and/or add new ones to tighten management and create a respectful climate that is conducive to learning.
October
Introduction to School City
Focus Area: Assessment Session #1
Tuesday, October 3, 20174:15pm-5:45pm
Birch Conference Room
Come learn how to use School City to create assessments for your classes. Types of assessments that you can make include multiple choice, multiple response (more than one correct answer), multiple binary (series of questions based on the same question) and constructed response. Please bring an assessment (answer key) to practice with.
Advance Editing with WeVideo
4:15pm-5:45pm
Mahogany Conference Room
In this introductory workshop, teachers receive step-by-step guidance on how to set up and personalize their WeVideo education accounts. This includes navigating their WeVideo dashboard, creating groups for their classes, importing and sharing media, and assigning collaborative projects. The second part of the workshop provides hands-on training on basic video editing in Storyboard and Timeline modes.
Google integration & TurnItIn
4:15pm-5:45pm
Mahogany Conference Room
a) Learn how to use Canvas as a way to deliver an assignment involving google docs. This process takes the place of Google Classroom.
b) Learn how to assign work and have students submit directly in Canvas & TurnItIn at the same time - no need for an extra login, extra password, etc.
Building Academic Language
Focus Area: EL Strategies #1
4:15pm-5:45pm
Birch Conference room
Mastery of academic language is arguably the single most important determinant of academic success for students, but choosing the best words to teach--and getting the students to use those words--can be challenging. In this session, participants will learn best practices for choosing, introducing and teaching vocabulary words, as well as how to create structured opportunities for students to speak academically in class.
Navigating Calendars in Canvas & Canvas Discussions
4:15pm-5:45pm
Mahogany Conference Room
Canvas calendars are very innovative and easy to use; they also integrate very well with Google. Canvas discussions provide an online format to create and maintain powerful online discussions using nearly any tool possible
Flipped Classroom using WeVideo
4:15pm-5:45pm
Birch Conference Room
The growing popularity of "flipped" and blended models is to a large extent a consequence of their effectiveness. What better way to help your teachers themselves make the leap from content allocation to content creation than a multi-modal communication tool like WeVideo? Through an experiential learning sequence, trainees will construct video lessons that also integrate many technical aspects of video creation.
Proactive Classroom Management
Focus Area: Climate and Culture Session #2
4:15pm-5:45pm
Mahogany Conference room
This session will share small adjustments that can make a huge difference in your practice. Participants will practice skills learned in this interactive, hands-on session. If you have a class with challenging behaviors, this workshop is for you!
Canvas SpeedGrader & Rubrics
4:15pm-5:45pm
Mahogany Conference Room
Tired of dragging a stack of papers around? Tired of printing work students have submitted? Learn how to grade online submissions using Canvas.... participants will also learn how to create rubrics that integrate with SpeedGrader and make grading easier and more fun!
School City Part 2
Focus Area: Assessment Session #2
Tuesday, October 24, 20174:15pm-5:45pm
Birch Conference Room
Come learn some advanced features of School City's Item Bank Assessments. Create items and passages to customize your Item Bank Assessments. Please bring an assessment with different types of questions and answers to use (short answer, essay prompt, etc.).
Planning and Running Difficult IEP Meetings
Focus Area: Students with Disabilities Session #2
Tuesdaay, October 24, 20174:15-5:45pm
Maple Conference Room
Participants will learn key strategies to aid in organizing IEP's, case managing students, setting up schedules for services, contacting specialists, etc. The focus of this session is to give case managers strategies in facilitating DIFFICULT IEP meetings. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to refresh their understanding of the IEP process -- not only in effective facilitation, but in meeting setup, notification to participants, etc. This session is intended for Education Specialists.
November
Formative Checks & Effective Exit Tickets
Focus Area: Assessment Session #3
November 2, 2017
4:15pm-5:45pm
Birch Conference Room
Participants in this workshop will get an overview of a variety of tools for frequent comprehension checks, both high-tech and low-tech. Formative assessment and the feedback we get from students is the key to making powerful instructional decisions for student success. If you've ever been surprised by students not knowing something you covered, this workshop is for you!
Research-based Engagement and Structured Student Interaction Strategies
Focus Area: Instruction #1
Thursday, November 9, 20174:15pm-5:45pm
Birch Conference Room
Active student engagement is one of the strongest predictors of student success. In this workshop, participants will learn/revisit a variety of strategies that get more students simultaneously thinking, at deeper levels, and more often throughout the class period.
How to save your voice in teaching
Focus Area: Voice Assistance
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
4:15pm-5:45pm
Maple Conference Room
Come learn how to prevent vocal problems from occurring, to re-train your teacher speaking habits and to mitigate problems that you have right now.
This workshop is for people who are already experiencing, or wish to prevent the following:
- By Friday of each week, you experience pain in your throat and a weekend of rest gets you back on your feet
- By October, you start having glitches in your voice, skipping a beat
- Your throat have a perpetual scratch which you try to relieve by clearing it a lot.
- You are losing your teacher voice, perhaps taking big breaths to get it out?
Conceptual Redundancy, CCSS Skills and Strategies
Focus Area: Curriculum #1
Date: TBD
Register Here!
Interested in a district unit? If you are not in TIPS, attend six seminars and complete two reflections for one district unit. If you are part of TIPS, fulfill the TIPS requirement first and then attend six additional seminars to receive a district unit. Ask Victoria Dye for more information.
Email: jtomasino@seq.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/seq.org/suhsdpd/
Phone: (650) 369-1411-22543