The art of differentiation happens through design, re-design, and new strategy. Participants in this e-course will reinvent lessons using research-based, effective methods for differentiation. They'll have opportunities to re-purpose lesson plans, understand readiness versus ability, and capitalize on brain plasticity to engage students through intellect and creativity. Learning profiles, interest surveys, cognitive-friendly learning environments, tiered questioning and student "hooks" for rigorous learning application are some of the takeaways to this e-course.
Course Objectives:
- Design and implement differentiated lessons using research-based strategies.
- Apply design strategy for grouping and classroom environment.
- Plan for use and implement with online and print tools for differentiation such as learning profiles, interest surveys and tiered questioning.
Participants in this e-course will learn the nuts and bolts behind successful professional learning communities. The teacher and administrative roles within them will be studied as they work toward on-going maintenance and the data analysis that leads to improved student achievement. From vision to PLC mission, each participant will build an action plan specific to grade-level and subject-area PLC needs.
Course objectives:
- Understand and apply the rationale behind the successful formation of a school PLC.
- Plan and practice with several models of cross-curricular, grade and departmental PLCs.
- Apply the Dufour & Dufour PLC model to PLC teams using assigned protocols, and then reflect on the experiences.
Research, careful thought and planning are some of the ingredients to effective classroom management practices proven to work in inclusive classrooms. Participants in this course will learn how to create balanced classrooms with sound learning environments for inclusive settings. Examples of various settings will include co-teaching, peer coaching and collaboration, and the use of appropriate high school and secondary behavioral supports for struggling learners, exceptional students and students with disabilities. Various structuring of lessons in secondary classroom environments that lead to useful learning in optimal learning environments will be learned, planned for and practiced with.
Course Objectives:
- Understand what and how to vet research-based strategies for classroom management practices in inclusive classroom settings.
- Understand and develop working knowledge of what differentiated classrooms look like, and plan similarly using various teaching methods and models.
- Align management strategy with content goals based on industry best practices for inclusive 9-12 settings.
Teaching and differentiating in inclusive classrooms requires careful and flexible planning and creativity. Through design, re-design, and research-based, field tested strategy in inclusive classrooms, participants will invent and reinvent lessons using effective methods for differentiation. Learning profiles, interest survey cognitive-friendly learning environments, tiered questioning and student "hooks" for rigorous learning application are some of the takeaways of this e-course.
Course Objectives:
- Create differentiated lessons for inclusive classrooms through design and strategy.
- Practice with the strategies that lead to effective and diverse learning environments.
- Plan flexibly using tools, resources, and new strategy to address the needs of diverse learners.
The role and relevance of diagnostic assessments and their importance as scaffolding tools are discussed in this e-course, along with their diagnostic, prescriptive implications. Identification of students’ strengths and weaknesses as they inform focused instructional strategy for improved teaching is the higher goal in this engaging workshop.
Objectives:
- Develop working knowledge about diagnostic assessments.
- Understand the role and relevance of prior knowledge and scaffolding in the diagnostic assessment process.
- Use diagnostic tools to inform instructional strategy for improved student performance.
- Understand how diagnostic assessments work into a differentiated curriculum.
Flipping a classroom takes commitment and time because is an inverted method of transforming a traditional classroom to one of responsiveness with a focus on delivery of instruction through active, student-centered learning, problem-based learning, group work, collaboration, and peer instruction. Participants will learn and practice with delivering flipped learning through digital technologies. They will view examples of flipped classrooms, vet lesson plans, transform and modify their own lessons to design new material that responds to several successful effective models of flipping classrooms.
Course Objectives:
- Determine where flipping is needed in, and where it makes the most sense for, their own classrooms in order to design effective flipped classroom plans through blended learning.
- Research and access resources for classroom activities that focus on skill, strategy, and concept application to embed in larger lesson plans.
- Understand, and develop facility with, components of flipped classrooms that are most engaging for students in order to identify the content to plan engaging student activities with.