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Connected Workshops: Mentoring
Bring our Learning Specialists to your school and empower your teachers to help students maximize their learning every day.
Each Workshop is delivered in a relaxed atmosphere at your school site, fostering collaboration and idea sharing among your staff. Participants receive comprehensive handouts with practical tools and resources they can use the next day in class!
Choose from the following list of existing Workshop titles focused on mentoring, or let's work together to create one of your own:
Camp Connect Mentoring
Overview:
This three-day workshop provides mentoring strategies for educators while promoting the integration of technology into the curriculum, the improvement of teaching practice and improved student achievement in the standards-led curriculum. Participants will acquire the skills and strategies in the areas of understanding Internet tools, accessing teacher resources, mentoring peers and integrating student activities and projects. All participants will develop a model student activity or project that can be immediately used in the classroom during the mentoring process.
Objectives:
- Explore the different types of search engines and searching strategies
- Locate and evaluate educational Web sites
- Classify and organize Web sites according to content
- Understand how to locate and/or develop Internet lesson plans
- Locate online content and resources that support local standards
- Collect Internet content and resources that support project-based learning
- Explore the different types of problem solving projects
- Developing instructional strategies that support integrating technology into the curriculum
- Develop mentoring strategies that support local tech integration needs
- Use classroom management skills to effectively deliver integration activities and projects
- Locate and integrate classroom projects
- Understand how to manage project-based learning in the classroom
- Learn how to provide ongoing, instructional support to staff
- Understand how to create online projects such as hotlists, WebQuests, hunts
- Explore the different types of project development tools
- Create one online activity or project
Activities: May include demonstrations, guided discussion, modeling, sharing, small group and large group work, collegial interaction through brainstorming and collaborating, creating checklists, action-planning and applications tasks.
Resources: Attendees receive a workshop handout, plus access to a custom website Classroom Connect will create a customized website that camp participants can access for up to six months after the camp ends. The website includes the camp agenda, classroom activity materials, guides, links and other camp resources.
Product: Each participant will develop an online lesson plan that provides a guide as a best practice.
Target Audience: K-8 Teachers, Mentor/Lead Teachers, Interns, Resource Teachers, Curriculum Coordinators and Administrators.
Recommended Technology Skill Level: All levels
Number of Trainers: Up to 3 trainers
Number of Participants: Up to 60 participants
Duration: Up to 6 instructional hours per day
Meeting Room: Three computer labs required (one computer per participant required).
Equipment to be Provided by Customer: For each lab, a projection system (digital projector, or LCD projector for use with trainer's laptop), overhead projector (as backup projection device), Internet Connectivity, Whiteboard/Chalkboard, 6 ft table for trainer's laptop, equipment and other materials.
Building an Effective Technology Mentoring Program
In this workshop, participants will investigate methods for measuring how well teachers integrate technology into their core content subject areas. Participants will learn how to maximize the training budget by fully preparing mentors to work with other staff members. Mentors will assist teachers in developing the skills and confidence necessary to independently use technology that enhances classroom lessons and ultimately increases student performance.
To learn more about Connected Workshops and our other professional development programs, call us today at (800) 638-1639.
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