PD Webinars- Advancing Online Learning for Educators
Three Part Series: Reaching All Learners: Tools and Strategies for Teaching Diverse-Needs Students
Many teachers today feel overwhelmed by the wide range of their students' learning needs and levels of preparedness. This webinar series is designed to provide background and actionable tips in key pedagogical areas to help teachers better identify and respond to students' unique gaps and capabilities. All sessions will highlight concrete strategies for managing diverse-needs classrooms, developing knowledge and skills, and maximizing students' learning potential.
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Making Differentiated Instruction Work for You
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, 4 p.m. ET
Differentiated instruction—the practice of accommodating and building on students' diverse learning needs—is often prescribed as a key to effective pedagogy today. But as many teachers know, it can be extremely difficult to implement successfully and—to make matters worse—is often subject to varied, sometimes perplexing interpretations. In this webinar, two educators with direct experience in working with diverse-needs students will seek to demystify differentiated instruction and offer actionable strategies to help teachers make this practice work in their classrooms. Topics to be discussed include classroom management, effective grouping, formative assessment, and skills development.
Expert Presenters:
Vicki Gibson, Ph.D., is a nationally known education consultant and trainer. A former kindergarten teacher, learning disability specialist, and school leader, she is the author of a number of books on effective pedagogy, including Differentiated Instruction: Grouping for Success. Ms. Gibson is the chair and president of Gibson Hasbrouck & Associates, a consulting group focused on providing research-based and skills-focused professional development.
Katie Hull Sypnieski recognized by peers as a master of differentiated instruction, is an English and English Language Development teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif. In her 15 years as an educator, she has taught English-language learning at all grade levels. She has also served as a teaching consultant in writing for the University of California-Davis School of Education and as a district lead trainer for the WRITE Institute.
Moderator:
Anthony Rebora, managing editor, Education Week Teacher
Reading Interventions: When Core Instruction Isn't Enough
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, 2 p.m. ET
In this webinar, two instructional intervention experts will provide research-based guidance for planning and implementing reading interventions to meet the varying needs of students. Jeanne Wanzek, a leading researcher on literacy development, will describe strategies for pinpointing—and subsequently addressing—core instructional problems in reading. School district consultant Amanda VanDerHeyden will discuss how to identify students in need of additional support, match them with the "right" intervention, and monitor progress. Both experts will highlight websites with free resources and intervention protocols that teachers can begin using right away.
Expert Presenters:
Jeanne Wanzek, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Florida State University and is on the research faculty at the Florida Center for Reading Research. She is a former special educator and elementary teacher. Ms. Wanzek conducts research examining effective reading instruction and intervention for students with reading difficulties and disabilities.
Amanda M. VanDerHeyden, Ph.D., is a private consultant and researcher who has worked as a researcher, consultant, and national trainer in a number of school districts and published more than 60 scholarly articles and book chapters related to response to intervention. In 2006, Ms. VanDerHeyden was named to a National Center for Learning Disabilities advisory panel to provide guidance related to RTI. She co-authored Essentials of Response to Intervention and also serves as research advisor to iSTEEP, a web-based data management system.
Moderator:
Liana Heitin, associate editor, Education Week Teacher
Changing Mindsets, Motivating Students
Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, 2 p.m. ET
In this webinar, renowned psychologist Carol Dweck will discuss how teachers can use new discoveries in cognitive development to improve student motivation and engagement. Through her intensive research, Ms. Dweck has found that students who believe intelligence is a fixed quality are more likely to avoid challenging tasks, while students who believe intelligence can be developed with effort tend to be more successful. She'll discuss some of the most common mistakes teachers make in trying to motivate students and detail strategies for promoting a "growth mindset" rather than "fixed mindset" in the classroom.
Expert Presenter:
Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., author of Mindset: The New Science of Success, is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her research focuses on why students succeed and how to foster their success. She has held professorships at Columbia and Harvard Universities and has lectured and worked with schools and other organizations all over the world. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recently won the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association—the highest honor in psychology.
Moderator:
Liana Heitin, associate editor, Education Week Teacher
Underwriting for the content of this webinar has been provided by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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Two Part STEM Series: Outside Learning and Student Engagement
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—or STEM—coursework ultimately teaches students to solve problems and design solutions in a way that they'll be asked to do in the workplace and in life. This STEM webinar series will help you integrate real world, outside materials and relevant concepts to help keep students engaged.
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The STEM Teacher as Project Manager: Leveraging Outside Knowledge and Resources
Underwriting for the content of this webinar has been provided by The GE Foundation.
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Thanks to advances in technology and a growing interest in partnership programs, teachers of science, technology, engineering, and math have a greater number of high-quality resources from outside the classroom at their disposal than ever before. This can enable teachers to take on new, applied-knowledge projects with their students. And it can at once make teaching more exciting and more complicated. In this webinar, you'll learn how innovative STEM teachers are locating and coordinating outside materials and expertise and integrating them into their curriculum and instruction—taking on the role of a project manager. The presentation will also explore how the effective use of such resources can enhance students' content knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Expert Presenters:
Susan A. Pruet is the Director of Engaging Youth Through Engineering (EYE), a community partnership program of the Mobile (Ala.) Area Education Foundation that aims to link science and math curricula with real-life engineering projects. She is a former middle grades mathematics teacher and mathematics education professor.
Deborah L. Ives is the mathematics instructional leader in the Morristown, N.J., school district and Llad content advisor for WNET THIRTEEN's Get the Math program. She has led curriculum design and implementation projects in engineering and aerospace.
Moderator:
Anthony Rebora, managing editor of Education Week Teacher and the Teacher PD Sourcebook
Engaging Girls and Other Underrepresented Populations in STEM
Underwriting for the content of this webinar has been provided by The GE Foundation.
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Women, minorities, and people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds have long been underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. In fact, President Obama has made it a priority to strengthen STEM education in this country, both by preparing new teachers and expanding education and career opportunities for underrepresented groups. Yet many teachers are struggling now with how to get students from all demographics involved in and energized about advanced STEM subjects.
In this webinar, you will learn about specific programs and strategies for engaging students—in particular those who are statistically less likely to pursue STEM careers—in science and related academic areas. You will discover, among other topics, how teachers can put concepts in context to help students see STEM's relevance to their daily lives.
Expert Presenters:
Dr. Mary Kirchhoff, Ph.D., is the director of the Education Division at the American Chemical Society. She previously served as chair of the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Trinity College in Washington, D.C. She has also worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's green chemistry program and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Regis Goode is a science teacher at Ridge View High School in Columbia, S.C. She worked as a chemist for 10 years, focusing on environmental analysis, before becoming a high school teacher. She received her National Board Certification in 2001.
Moderator:
Liana Heitin, associate editor of Education Week Teacher and the Teacher PD Sourcebook
21st Century Teaching Series: Use Digital Tools Effectively to Enhance Student Learning
Technology is transforming the way we approach everything, including how we teach. This 21st Century Teaching webinar series will help you integrate innovative skills with critical subject matter—writing and math—and provide ways to create effective assessments under this new paradigm.
Choose one of these vital webinars for just $49, or select all three and pay only $129. View them all on-demand!
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New Directions in Classroom Assessment
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Educators are continually striving to integrate critical thinking, collaboration, problem solving, and digital communication into their instruction but lack the tools needed for assessing learning in an innovative way? In this webinar, two recognized authorities on 21st-century teaching discuss how teachers can create assessments that both reinforce and evaluate students' learning in abstract and transformative academic skills as well as offer practical examples of evaluations of student projects.
Expert Presenters:
Sheryl Nussbaum Beach is a widely known speaker and trainer on the use of interactive technology in K-12 education. She is the founder of the 21st Century Collaborative and co-founder of the Powerful Learning Practice Network.
Jennifer Barnett is the technology integration specialist at Winterboro School in Talladega County, AL. Ms. Barnett is a contributor to the book Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools—Now and in the Future.
Moderator:
Anthony Rebora, managing editor of Education Week Teacher and the Teacher PD SourcebookUsing New Media to Enhance Student Writing
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Advancements in digital technology have created immense opportunities--and some challenges--for language arts and writing instructors. Interactive writing platforms can spur students' creativity and help them develop skills needed for effective communication in the 21st century. In this webinar, two rising experts on language arts and new media give educators practical tips on integrating digital tools into writing instruction, addressing the classroom uses of available technology options and providing examples of effective classroom projects.
Expert Presenters:
Sara Kajder, a former middle and high school English teacher, is an Assistant Professor of English Education at Virgina Tech University. Ms. Kajder is the author of Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students and The Tech-Savvy English Classroom
Joel Malley is a technology liaison for the Western New York Writing Project, and currently teaches a popular English class, combining writing instruction and film production at Cheektowaga Central High School in Cheektowaga, NY. Mr. Malley was one of 10 educators featured in the report "Teachers Are the Center of Education: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age."
Moderator:
Anthony Rebora, managing editor of Education Week Teacher and the Teacher PD Sourcebook
Connecting Math Instruction to the Real World
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Too often, math word problems are presented in ways that fail to reflect the real world. This process can overwhelm and, ultimately, alienate math students, who struggle to connect the material to the world around them. In this webinar, math teacher and ed-tech expert Dan Meyer demonstrates how educators can do away with "pseudocontext" and "pseudo-problem solving" by implementing a multimedia-based math curriculum. He shows how to use pictures, videos, and websites to bring classroom math problems to life.
Expert Presenter:
Dan Meyer taught high school math for six years and is currently on a doctoral fellowship at Stanford University. In March, he gave a presentation focused on innovation in education that quickly went viral on YouTube.
Moderator:
Liana Heitin, associate editor of Education Week Teacher and the Teacher PD Sourcebook
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