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Connected Workshops: Curriculum & Instruction
Held onsite at your school, Connected Workshops provide the benefit of customized, in-person instruction for your K-12 teachers. Our Learning Specialists work with you to create an agenda designed to meet the diverse learning needs and levels of your teachers.
Available in one-day Workshop and three-day Camp Connect™ formats, Connected Workshops give teachers practical and relevant ideas, resources, and strategies that they can use in the classroom the next day.
Choose from the following list of existing Workshop titles focused on curriculum and instruction, or let's work together to create one of your own:
Using Technology to Teach Standards
This workshop is designed for teachers who are ready to integrate education technologies into their instructional units. During the workshop, participants will be introduced to the National Curriculum Content Standards and to a new set of technology standards for students. The goal of the class is to prepare participants to be able to create and modify lessons that use technology to help students meet learning standards.
Science and Technology: A Natural Partnership
In this workshop, participants will explore ways for integrating technology into the science classroom including topic research, probes, working with experts, and collaborative projects. Participants will gain the confidence and skills to integrate such learning technologies in the science curriculum.
Social Studies Online: An Overview
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Using Technology to Support Literacy Instruction
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Linking the Internet to the Writing Process
In this workshop, participants will learn how to use the Internet in conjunction with teaching the writing process to students. While writing can be taught within the confines of the classroom walls, teachers can enhance students’ learning by including resources that expand and enhance the writing experience. Resources such as writing tools, online publishing and student exchanges will be introduced as valuable tools for increasing students’ writing skills.
Internet Resources That Improve Writing Skills
In this workshop, participants will learn how Internet resources can make a difference in teaching writing. Graphic organizers, a great pre-writing tool, will be demonstrated along with many other resources--from rubrics to publishing--for student and teacher use. Technology can make the writing process easier for both teacher and student.
Online Tools to Support Differentiated Instruction
This workshop introduces participants to assessment, key principles and management strategies for the complex Differentiated Instructional process. Participants will experience the important role technology plays in providing children the appropriate scaffold for their individual needs through web-based: sites, activities and professional development.
Data-Driven Decision Making Skills to Inform Instruction
In this workshop, participants will explore a variety of student data, innovative approaches and plans that combine instruction, technology and student data to make effective instructional decisions in the classroom. There will be opportunities to learn about Instructional Learning Systems, online programs and online resources that transform data into individualized instruction in the classroom.
Strategies for Successful Online Learning
In this workshop, participants will learn strategies to ensure that their online professional development experience is positive, effective and enjoyable. Participants will learn how to find the information they need, contribute to discussions and complete the assignments within their online learning community.
Using Technology to Enhance Learning for At-Risk Students
This workshop will introduce participants to a variety of instructional strategies to be used with at-risk students that will enhance development of the higher order thinking skills necessary to be able to function effectively in the world. Participants will learn how to use technology to help students develop small-group cooperative learning skills to help them to learn from each other and raise student motivation. Focus is on maximizing student involvement in challenging, long-term projects that stress composition, comprehension and application of skills in the context of working on authentic tasks.
"The training was personalized and provided needed information to staff. Classroom Connect's onsite training allowed teachers to personalize the inservice they would be receiving."
-- Verneda Edwards, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, USD 230 in Spring Hill, Kansas
To learn more about Connected Workshops and our other Curriculum & Instruction professional development programs, call us today at (800) 638-1639.
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