Teacher Workshop Days

1.   August 18-Agenda Items—Am  First Aid and School Wellness, Career Ladder Plans and Professional Development Plans—PM  Classroom schedules are due by 3:30. 

2.   August 19-Teachers and aids work in classrooms.  All schedules for the Preliminary Title I students and Special Education students are due by 3:30.  Lesson plans for the first week need to be in place by 3:30. All materials and and supplies need to be unpacked and put away.   

3.   Sept. 19—1:00—2:00—HIPPA Workshop—All employees are required to attend.  Identity Theft prevention and guidelines of what information can be disposed of and how.  2:00-3:30—work on web-pages and get them up-dated. 

4.   Oct. 17—Teacher Workshop Day—1/2 day

5.   Oct. 23—1:00-5:00--Parent-Teacher Conferences

6.   Nov. 3--Teacher Workshop Day—1/2 day

7.   Jan. 16-- Teacher Workshop Day—1/2 day

8.   Feb. 13-- Teacher Workshop Day—1/2 day

9.   Mar. 12-- Teacher Workshop Day—1 day

10.                Mar. 19—Parent-Teacher Conferences—3:30-5:30

11.                April 3—Teacher Workshop Day—1day

12.                May 22—Teacher Workshop Day—1 day

What would you like to do on these Workshop Days?  Some ideas:

1.   Smarter Adults—Safer Children—The insurance company requires all new employees to take this training on-line.  This must be done, ASAP!

2.   MSTA is offering on-line courses—for $25 each—Response to Intervention, Beyond the BTA Performance Based Teacher Evaluations), Classroom Management K-12, Personal Finance 101.  Any of these could be set up on one of the Workshop Days or on your own. 

3.   MSTA is offering Math and Science Nights—Sept. 23—Macon—you could go to this training for $75 and substitute it for one of the workshop days. 

4.   MSTA is offering beginning teacher assistance program workshops—new teachers—within the first two years are required to attend some type of program—Susan.

  1. STARR teachers have a variety of workshop title that they will present if we would decide on one and get them scheduled ASAP.  MAP

·         Authentic Instruction

·         Performance Assessment

·          Constructed Response Writing

·         Creating Scoring Guides

Literacy

·         Building Blocks

·         Four Blocks

·          Balanced Literacy

·         Literacy Centers

·         Guided Reading

·          Power Writing

·         Six + One Trait Writing

·         Reader”s Workshop

·         Content Area Reading & Writing Strategies

·         Cross-Curricular Reading & Writing

·          Writer’s Workshop

Instructional Strategies

·         Cooperative Learning

·          Peer Coaching

·          Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligences

·         Classroom Management

·         Brain Based Learning Strategies

·          Differentiated Instruction

·          Active Learning Strategies

·         Research Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

Additional Workshops

·         Lesson Modeling

·         Team Building

·         New Teacher Induction

 

PBS—Positive Behavior Support -- contact Susan at (573)882-5763 or e-mail her at brawleys@missouri.edu This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  PBS is A proactive systems approach to put strategies in place for all children, while building in support for those at-risk and/or those who receive special education services for behavior problems.

What are the Benefits?

Schools that consistently implement and use PBS have:

·         Improved school climate

·         Improved student achievement

·         Reduction in suspension and referral rates

If we want to apply as one of the schools by April 15th, we need to have some training to make sure everyone wants to give this a try. 

6.   Conflict Resolution Workshop

7.   Adobe Photoshop

8.   Athena

9.   Scholastic Reading Counts

10.                Love and Logic Training

11.                Character Education

12.                Curriculum Days

13.                Violence Prevention Training

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