Professional Development for YOU!
Victor Teaching Center, Fall 2022
GRTCN & NYS Teacher Centers
- Kristin Guckian, VTC Teaching Director
Don't Forget...Visit the VTC for FREE Professional Books!
We have a ton of extra professional books that were donated to the VTC that are up for grabs. They are located on our back table in the VTC at the Primary Building, Room 132. Plan to keep them out until the end of September, so come visit whenever you can! The pictures below are a few pictures of some of the books available to you.
VTC & Office of Instruction Professional Learning Calendar 2022-2023
**Click here for the VTC & Office of Instruction's Professional Learning Calendar.**
This calendar will continue to be updated with offerings from both the VTC and Office of Instruction. It includes links to the workshops for you to sign up on Frontline.
Each month's calendar will also be displayed outside of the VTC.
Navigating Frontline Workshop: September 20th @ 3:30-4:30pm
VTC Workshops: Learning Menus on 9/28 & Socratic Seminar on 10/18!
- Make Learning Menus Work for Quarantines and Substitutes, from 3:30-5:00pm on 9/28. This is a Make and Take workshop where you will be presented with several modalities of Learning Menus including Google Slides, Smore, Padlet, and Google Docs. Please note that this is being offered during the upcoming Superintendent's Conference day and is no longer available on Frontline.
- The Best Class You've Never Taught: Implement Socratic Seminar, from 3:30-5:30pm on 10/18. This offering is for Grades 4-12. Please note that this is being offered during the upcoming Superintendent's Conference day and is no longer available on Frontline.
Upcoming Book Studies through the VTC! Sign up on Frontline!
- Join Kayla Docteur and Carolyn Isaacson with the David Kilpatrick Book Study: Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties from 3:30-5:00pm on 9/15, 9/29, 10/13, 10/27 and 11/10.
- Join Mary Anne Buckley and Aly Ricci with the Liz Kleinrock Book Study: Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community from 3:30-5:00pm on 9/26 and 10/3.
- Join Maggie Elliott with the Jennifer LaGarde Book Study: Developing Digital Detectives - Essential Lessons for Discerning Fact from Fiction in the ?Fake News? Era from 3:30-5:00pm on 1/11 and 1/25.
Learner Agency-Empowering Students Webinar Series with James Anderson
The Greater Rochester Teacher Center Network is proud to offer a free webinar series at no cost to our district. Join us for a synchronous webinar series with international author James Anderson. Register for one or more webinars today!
There are 8 synchronous, 1 hour sessions. Each webinar earns one CTLE credit. Enrollment is limited to 65 people per session.
Dates of synchronous online 1-hour webinar programs via Zoom with international author James Anderson:
Thursday, October 13, 2022 Learnership
Thursday, October 20, 2022 Motivation and Mindsets
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 Learning Zone
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 Mistakes
Thursday, December 8, 2022 Effort
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 Habits of Mind
Thursday, February 16, 2023 Assessment
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 Learner Agency
For a direct access to this smore click on the following link:https://www.smore.com/hvtab-learner-agency-with-james-anderson.
When you register, it will take you to a Workshop/Conference form. Please make sure to click on the following:
1. Is this a Victor Teacher Center Activity? YES
2. Provider: Not on list: Greater Rochester Teacher Center Network
3. Funded by: Victor Teacher Center at $0
4. Click on NO for additional payments and costs
Save the Date: October 19th with Natalie Wexler at Nazareth College!
Shared by our Policy Board member, Dr. Maria Hopkins from Nazareth College.
Natalie Wexler will be on the Nazareth campus (author of The Knowledge Gap and Writing Revolution), on October 19th in the evening in honor of Dyslexia Awareness Month. It will include a panel discussion with local experts talking about how we best support students with dyslexia.
It will be free, seats limited, with the first 100 to RSVP receiving a copy of The Knowledge Gap.
Here is the link to the Natalie Wexler lecture. Register through our District Catalog on Frontline!
Music Department Book Study: October 19th @ 3:30-5:00pm
Amy Oldfield and Laura Brewer will be offering a Book Study on Love the Job, Lose the Stress: Successful Social and Emotional Learning in the Modern Music Classroom by Lesley Moffat.
This book study will focus on successful social and emotional learning in the modern music classroom. Are you interested in 'tuning' your music students' brains and bodies at the start of class so they are ready to receive, retain, and reimagine your instruction? Are you interested in the secret to implementing a plan for a successful music classroom culture where students feel emotionally safe? Are you interested in proven techniques to fast track learning in the music classroom? If so, then this is the class for you!
Save the Date: February 2nd & 9th @ 3:45-4:45pm with Kesha James!
Last school year, Kesha James offered Cultivating Resilience in Ourselves and our Classroom for our district and Pittsford Central School District. We received great feedback and are thrilled to have her back this school year offering a two series workshop for our district on Teacher Resilience.
Stay tuned for more detailed information!
Victor Teaching Center
Sharon Schmaltz, Secretary of Teaching Center, Ext. 3132
Email: guckiank@victorschools.org
Website: https://victorteachingcenter.weebly.com/
Location: Victor Central School District, NY, USA
Phone: 585-924-3252