TMS Instructional Coach Update
April 15, 2015
Mission
Mastering
Success
Vision
EOG Resources
Global Day of Design
Global Day of Design: April 26, 2016 (<---link. click on it!)
Flappy Bird Generator: Make Your Own Flappy Bird Game (20-45 min)
The Gift-Giving Project: Goes through entire design cycle to redesign the
gift-giving experience. (1 hour)
Challenge 1: Here is the Google folder link to Challenge One. It has a complete lesson plan, a video about the LAUNCH process and a video explaining the challenge. NOTE: Your PE folks might really like this one. The challenge is to create your own sport using specified items.
Challenge 2: The Marshmallow Challenge = prototyping, diverse skills matter, incentives magnify outcomes. (20 min.; Free via TED)
Challenge 3: Draw How to Make Toast = Systems thinking & problem solving (20-45 min; free via TED)
End of Year Process
Professional Development
Resources
ELA Teachers
ELA Resource from NCDPI: good resource with everything needed
- Readworks - Longer Passages to Build Stamina for K-12th Grade & K-12 Reading Passages with Text-Dependent Questions
All Teachers
Curriculum Development Leader
NCDPI Professional Deveopment
Spring 2016- Session 2: Instructor-facilitated Online Courses NCDPI is happy to announce our 2016 spring Session 2 instructor–facilitated online courses. These courses provide high-quality professional development and the opportunity to interact with peers and an instructor. The following spring 2016 session 2 courses will start Monday, April 4. Registration for these courses is open now.
Course name
1. Connecting with our 21st Century Learners: 5 weeks, 1 CEU
2. Introduction to Data Literacy: 5 weeks, 1 CEU
3. Universal Design for Learning 1: UDL in the Everyday Classroom: 5 weeks, 1 CEU
4. Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects, Part 1: 5 weeks, 0.5 CEU
For a description of the courses and associated CEUs visit our website https://rt3nc.org/
These courses are available at no cost to North Carolina educators and will be facilitated by DPI professionals. The courses are completed entirely online. Participants are expected to meet all weekly deadlines in order to receive CEUs. Partial credit will not be given. Registration is limited to 35 participants per section. To register, follow the instructions below to log into Home Base to self-register for a course. Log in to the NCEES system using your usual log in or the alternate log in https://ncees.homebase.ncpublicschools.gov/alternateLogin.html. Click the Professional Development tab.
Additional Canvas Training to Be Offered
PD Resources
Personal Learning Networks
Arts for All workshop for teachers
- Arts for All Including School-Age Children with Disabilities in Arts Education-Saturday, April 30, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Arts & Science Council of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Cost - $20
- Arts Access, Inc. presents a one-day workshop for teaching artists, arts educators, and general education classroom teachers led by Jaehn Clare on strategies for including children of all abilities in arts education activities.
Click here to learn more & sign up!
This program is provided under a contract with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Food For Thought
Just For Fun
SHS to Present "Into the Woods"
99 Reasons Teachers Rock
61. [As a teacher,] I live in all of them, I'm loved and remembered, I help them fly to the highest spot they've ever dream about... ~ @norma_friend
62. Teachers put up with everyone in the world thinking their job is easy with early days and a big fat summer vacation.
63. Teachers are flexible and student centered. Three out of four teachers think schools should adapt to the interests, needs and learning styles of students rather than forcing students to fit into school norms, according to the 2005 Profile of US Teacher by NCEI.
64. The fictional teacher ranks include the likes of Albus Dumbledore of Hogwarts, Miss Bliss ofSaved by the Bell and Miss Frizzle’s magic school bus.
65. Teachers rock because (insert geology joke here science teachers).
Jaye Parks
Email: parksj@iss.k12.nc.us
Website: http://iss.schoolwires.com/Domain/4546
Twitter: @JayeParks1