Educators from component districts can attend regional professional development opportunities sponsored through CI&A at no additional charge. The regional opportunities are based upon data from surveys that district representatives completed in late spring. Information on the varied regional opportunities can be found below.
Note: Please register for summer professional development opportunities by June 17 .
Event
Audience/NYS Teaching Standards
Responsive Classroom® Level One, days 4 & 5
May 23 & 24, 2013
8:00-3:00
OCM BOCES, Henry Campus, Operations & Maintenance and Rodax 8
The Responsive Classroom is an approach to teaching that helps build a strong social curriculum and an appropriate academic content. Responsive Classroom strategies weave through the fabric of daily school life creating a learning community that is both academically challenging and socially responsible. Implemented in thousands of classrooms over the last twenty years, these methods enhance academic performance, increase social skills and reduce problem behavior. Explore key practices with a focus on building classroom community and establishing positive discipline.
Audience:
K-6 Teachers, Special Area Teachers & Principals
Culture, Professional Practice
Scaffolding Close Reads and Complex Text for Struggling Students
July 2, 2013
8:00-1:00
Rodax 8
The Common Core Learning Standards for ELA call for rigorous literacy learning at all grade levels. As the bar is raised, we need to support our learners even more in their literacy skills. This session will focus on scaffolds teachers can use to support their struggling learners in close reads of complex text, including strategies for interaction, metacognition, and vocabulary development.
How do we meet the needs of all of our students? is a timeless question all educators ask. We, as teachers, can tackle this question by first knowing our students and then being able to scaffold their learning in order for them to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed. To do this, we might look through the lense of differentiation. Differentiated Instruction can open pathways for our students learning. We can learn about differentiated Instruction and how to scaffold it for our students in this one day workshop. This workshop will be based on the work of many authors of differentiation, such as Anne Beninghof, Rachel Billmeyer & Carol Ann Tomlinson. We will briefly review what differentiated instruction is, explore and make multiple strategies and discuss how to scaffold these strategies and learning for our students.
July 9, 12, & August 9, 2013
8:00-1:00
Rodax 8 Days 1 & 2; O & M Day 3
PBL 101 takes participants on the journey of planning their first Common Core focused project that includes the 8 essentials of Project-Based Learning.
What do the Common Core Standards mean for English teachers in grades 6-12? This session will help teachers explore the ideas of close reading, evidence-based claims and the balance of fiction and informational text as it applies to English instruction in the secondary grades.
August 20, 2013
8:00-1:00 (no lunch break)
Rodax 8
Questions are not all the same. To support student growth throughout the Common Core Learning Standards, we need to be aware of what level questions are asked, are needed and how to promote higher level thinking. Participants will review purpose and different levels of questions. Learning targets will be developed by each participant with articulated expectation for student outcomes. Questions will be developed and analyzed to scaffold student achievement of the learning targets. Additionally, strategies for including responses of multiple students at varied levels of questions will be incorporated into the day. Common tier 2 "question" terms will be identified that may need to be taught to promote student success in answering questions.
What do the Common Core Standards mean for Social Studies teachers in grades 6-12? This session will help teachers explore the CCLS anchor standards and standards for Literacy in Social Studies and History for grades 6-12 and focus on what the CCLS looks like in the social studies classroom. Participants will learn strategies for including literacy instruction to support their students in learning Social Studies content and critical thinking skills.
In the 21st Century, we use formative assessments to respond to different levels of learning in regard to the common core standards.
Responding to students who have prior knowledge, comprehension of the content/concept/vocabulary being taught does not mean giving them “more” work. The common core learning standards are the floor, not the ceiling. How can we challenge advanced learner to go to higher levels of rigor and relevance?
