DELTA COURSES 2007-2008
Integrated Thematic Instruction - (Introductory K-5)
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Date: Instructor: Charlotte Jaffe and Barbara Doherty Time: Description: In this hands-on workshop, teachers will become familiar with a variety of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to integrating the curriculum that are standards-based, rigorous, and relevant. Participants will view classrooms in action, and participate in readings and discussions to learn methods of implementing an integrated program. Using multiple planning sheets and graphic organizers, teachers will work in groups to plan and organize their own integrated units. An array of practical handout material will be provided. Integrated Thematic Instruction - (Advanced)**
Location: Date: 1/10/08 (Thursday) Instructor: Charlotte Jaffe and Barbara Doherty Time: Description: In this follow-up workshop, participants will have the opportunity to develop new integrated units based on their own curriculum to use in the coming school year. Presenters will facilitate the curriculum writing by guiding the teachers to make connections in different content areas. Teachers will learn how to create rubrics to help them in assessing student progress and the unit's integration. Attention will be given to aligning standards with the instruction and assessment in each unit. ** This course is offered only to DIS ITI Teachers. Academic Literacy (MS, HS)
Location: Date: Instructor: Heidi Faust Time: Description: This hands-on, interactive session will engage participants in surfacing their own reading strategies and recognizing their own strengths as content area experts to unpack their thinking and "apprentice" their students as readers and thinkers. Participants will discuss the various roles and responsibilities of all teachers in the school to support the development of improved literacy skills. Specific strategies will be shared. Learning: A Matter of Style
Location: Date: Instructor: Heidi Faust Time: Description: This workshop will address how one's style of learning affects the types of teaching strategies selected for use in the classroom. Participants will examine their own particular style of learning and see how it affects their teaching style. They will gain an understanding of and appreciation for the various styles of learning. In addition, participants will learn about the vital role of classroom environment, along with style, in affecting how one learns. Learn how to use what we know about style and classroom environment to develop teaching strategies and activities that help each child develop the best that is in them. Data-Driven Decision Making
Location: Date: Instructor: Dr. Connie McCart Time: Description: We've all read the research on the factors contributing to those darned achievement gaps, but can someone else's statistics explain or help us? What are the factors that contribute here in our districts? Which of these factors can we impact? How do we develop and analyze our own data to provide the specific answers we need?
This will be an interactive workshop for teachers who want to explore possible factors and find possible routes toward reaching as many children as possible. We'll review the research, the types of data available to us, and then apply what we've learned to specific score results for your school and district. Rigor & Relevance
Location: Date: Instructor: Cheryl Dyer Time: Description: The New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards focus on "what students will know and be able to do" in all of the curriculum. Often, the learning objectives and activities that support them that are developed by teachers emphasize knowledge and underemphasize application of knowledge. This workshop will introduce the participant to the Rigor and Relevance framework developed by the
Rigor & Relevance
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Date: Instructor: Cheryl Dyer Time: Description: Another session of Rigor/Relevance (DeLTA Course) has been added on the above date (
Please sign up by Monday, November 19th if interested. This course is a beginner course for MS and HS particularly if you have not attended past in-services by Ray McNulty (HS) or Peter Pappas (MS), or, would like a refresher.
DIS will receive this training on the February 15th in-service, so do not register. Also, Millbridge staff members need not register because they received this training at the November 6th in-service. Brain Based Learning
Location: Date: Instructor: Elaine Mendelow Time: Description: What does the literature say about how the brain learns? What do teachers do that stimulate and encourage learning and memory? What teacher behaviors interfere with learning? What is the relationship between emotions and learning? Brain research has been shedding new light on how students learn (or don't learn)! During this interactive workshop learn about what goes on in the brain and strategies to boost motivation and enhance learning and memory. |
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