Pedagogy:

 

Lesson Planning

Classroom instruction

Multi-Level Classrooms

Teacher Personality: The development of your own personality as a teacher directly impacts your students’ behavior

Problem Solving Process: How to strategically solve problems in the most effective manner by utilizing action plans

Action Planning: How action plans can drive a project, give a vision and impact the success of a project.

Enrichment Focus: What to do with the students who “get it”?

Objectives/Goals in the Classroom: Incorporating obtainable objectives in your lesson plans and how to get your students there.

Motivation Throughout Breaks

Expanding Environments

Goal Setting 

Program Design & Evaluation

Save Time/Save Self

Self-care for teachers

Unique needs of gifted students

Tier I Interventions

Tier 2 Interventions

Tier 3 Interventions

Research

Teaching/Classroom Management

understanding the gifted student

Limited Resources:Classroom Management:Trainees often have to teach in environments where teaching resources are limited. This session provides strategies, techniques, practices and examples of locally produced materials to help Volunteers be effective even when resources are limited.

 

 

Instructional Strategies:

 

Comic Book- How to teach English using the comic strip method.

Foldables

Differentiation

 

Data:

 

Tracking Student Progress: How to generate data on your students and to see if you need to modify or change instruction.

Differentiating with Data ladders: How to group according to data and what to do with the groupings.

AllofE (ExamN)

AIMSweb Benchmarking, Progress Monitoring, M-Comp & M-CAP

Aimsweb new system 

Assessment Analysis

Data Analysis

NWEA MAP basics and Score Information

AIMSweb

creating lessons to align to descartes

Data: Improvement of teacher MAP/Aimsweb utilization   

Improvement of Aimsweb fidelity--review data/PM    

 

Common Core:

 

Common Core State Standards: The largest national scale educational movement is happening now in America.  What does that have to do with Albania?

Aligning Assessments to CCSS

Basics and Foundations of CCSS

 

Behavioral Management:

 

Building Relationships, Behavioral Management Tips: How to gain control of the classroom with efficient techniques.

Behavioral Management in the Classroom

CHAMPS! 1 and 2

Champs for non-traditional staff

Defusing and avoiding power struggles

Impact of Mental Health on Behavior and Academics

Problem-solving process/Improving efficacy of problem solving process /IPFs 

Building relationships w students and diffusing power struggles    

 

Writing/Vocabulary/Reading:

 

Writing in all content areas: Strategies and activities to help increase writing across content.

Vocabulary Strategies: Strategies and activities to help increase vocabulary across content.

Reading in all content areas: Strategies and activities to help increase reading across content.

Speaking in all content areas: Strategies and activities to help increase speaking across content.

Text Analysis in the classroom

Literature (Readability/Creation)

Foreign Language

Creating and Exploiting Dialogues: Give trainees practice in creating basic, well designed dialogues that they can use to introduce functions or grammar features

June 5 in Burrel, 9 schools-writing portifolio

 

Community Impacts:

 

Event Organizing

Community Organizing

Resumes/Interviewing

Adult Education

Life Skills

Fitness

Nutrition

Coaching

Girls groups

Summer camp work

Volunteer Project Planning

Youth Development

Counseling

Mural design

Hike leading

General Outdoors (canoeing, camping, etc.)

Team building exercises

Assessing Your Community This session, in combination with the trainee-directed activities on community assessment, provide trainees with basic information, skills and examples to understand the value of asset-based approaches and to implement such tools both in their training and Volunteer sites.

In the PDM Workshop, Volunteers and their colleagues learn how to involve community members in a process of analyzing, planning, and implementing projects that meet their needs and desires.

 

Team Trainings:

 

Team efficacy work for grade level teams                                                        

Action plans for every team 

Revisiting Team Action Plans

 

Technology:

 

Web design

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

 

 

Trainings As A Participant:

 

Gail Sherman- Intensive Reading: What Really Works with Struggling Readers 

Dr. Jeffrey Wilhelm: Engaging Students to Read & Write to
Tim Westerberg

Kildeer Countryside School District 96 PLC Visit