Topic: Developing Basic Reading Comprehension in Elementary
Description: Workshop 1: Teachers will examine and study novel ways of developing students’ basic skills in comprehension, leading to autonomy in reading comprehension.
Suggested for: Elementary
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Developing Higher Ability Reading Comprehension in Elementary
Description: Workshop 2: Using the novel ways of developing students’ skills in comprehension, teachers will learn how to help them develop higher abilities in
implicit reading comprehension.
[Recommended that workshop one is done before workshop two]
Suggested for: Elementary
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Using Critical Thinking in Reading Comprehension
Description: Teachers will examine and study what critical thinking means and learn to make and use tools that help students learn to use critical thinking in reading.
[Recommended that workshops one and two are done before workshop Three]
Suggested for: Elementary
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Using Reading to Develop Writing Skills
Description: Good reading leads to better writing. Teachers will study novel tools and methods to develop their students’ accuracy in writing and creativity based on their reading.
Suggested for: Elementary
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Applying Process Writing
Using Portfolio
Description: Writing is a skill that develops over time. Improved writing happens when students can go back and re-examine their ideas, check their perspectives, and add new learning to their drafts. In learning how to use portfolios in the classroom, teachers will develop their students’ writing skills, vocabulary power, and profound thinking.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Creating Performance Tasks that Demonstrate Student Competency
Description: Any test a student needs to study for is wrong! A test should check students’ learning and not what they crammed in a few days before the test. In this workshop, teachers learn how to develop tools for assessing
students’ learning for three purposes: 1. OF Learning; 2. FOR Learning; and 3. AS Learning
Suggested for: Elementary to Middle School
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Using the 5Es to Develop an English Language Lesson
Description:
Suggested for: K-12 Teachers
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Using the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy to Develop Learning and Assessment for English & Social Studies
Description: The revised Bloom’s Taxonomy helps teachers develop lessons and assessments that promote higher thinking levels. In this workshop, teachers examine how to develop learning and assessment tools based on the taxonomy and align them with the English and social studies’ standards that the school has
adopted.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: **Understanding and using standards for developing better learning plans
for English from grades 1 to 8
Description: Whether your school uses the Common Core State Standards or other US state standards, this four-hour session is designed to help you (teachers, supervisors, and administration) understand how standards are designed and defined. You will develop insights into how to create better lesson plans, improve formative and summative assessment as well as modify the scope and sequence of your textbooks to better suit your school’s requirements.
Suggested for: 1 to 8
Duration: 1 day (4 hours) or 2 days (2 hours each)
Topic: Planning for, and Teaching English to Develop Students’ 21st Century Skills
Description: In a future that is more uncertain than at any time in recorded history, we need to address not only what should be learned, but how it will be learned so that the present generation will be able to make the right decisions and take the most appropriate actions for future generations to come.
This short active session will focus on developing a core learning approach that could be expanded into a dynamic 21st-century concept that can involve all stakeholders in education. The participants’ focus will be on using some of the current grade level expectations in English and making a short-term learning plan that helps our students develop students 21st-century skills during the English periods.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Looking into ELA Training Program
Description: This course aims at identifying the ELA shifts and providing a better understanding to educators when reading the Common Core State Standards for ELA.
Suggested for: Elementary to Middle School
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Training Program for 6+1 Traits of Writing
Description: This course aims to introduce writing traits and demonstrate how teachers can use them to improve student writing in all grade levels.
Suggested for: K-12 Teachers, Admin
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Collaborative Learning
Description: The concept of collaborative learning has been widely researched and advocated – the term “collaborative learning” refers to an instruction method in which learners at various performance levels work together in small groups toward a common goal. The learners are responsible for one another’s learning as well as their own. Thus, the success of one learner helps other students to be
successful.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Using Multiple Intelligences Assessment to Promote Student
Achievement
Description: Research indicates that using multiple intelligence assessments has a positive impact on student achievement, leadership, and motivation. Higher motivation on assignments and higher achievement are reached when students are given the opportunity to show understanding of the curriculum in ways that match their respective learning styles. Consequently, behavior can become more positive in the classroom.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: ** Leadership Skills
Description: This workshop gives you the personal, interpersonal and group skills to be influential in one-on-one situations, facilitate group performance and become an overall effective leader. Leaders who inspire teams to work together can deliver results and services faster, better and more cost effectively. Gain the skills to structure, measure and tune performance in a service team environment
and become a leader who equips his or her team with the skills and capabilities to optimize productivity and performance and deliver high-quality results.
Suggested for: Admin
Duration: 1 day (4 hours) or 2 days (2 hours each)
Topic: ** Project-Based Learning (The Essentials)
Description: In this workshop, teachers will learn how PBL is an effective way for students to learn and develop deeper learning of competencies required for
success in college, career, and civic life. Using the ‘ Project Based Learning Framework,’ they will consider using PBL to engage students’ hearts
and minds while providing real-world relevance for learning with strategies and approaches that are equitable to all learners.
Suggested for: 1 to 8
Duration: 1 day (4 hours) or 2 days (2 hours each)
Topic: KAGAN Program for Effective Classroom Management
Description: This course aims to identify the best ways to establish an effective classroom management system using KAGAN structures.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Motivating Students A Program That Works
Description: This course aims at Identifying strategies to develop an effective motivation system that is consistent with student preferences and interests
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Differentiating Instruction for All Learners Training Program
Description: This course aims to explicitly define differentiated instruction and the various ways to differentiate within a classroom.
Suggested for: Teachers, HOD, Curriculum Coordinators, Principals
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Digital Online Resource-Classkick Training Program
Description: This course aims at exploring a digital platform called Classkick to make teaching and learning interactive and highly engaging for independent
and collaborative group instruction.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Utilizing MAP Data to Inform Instructional Programs
Description: This course aims to introduce the basics of using data to make instructional decisions for student growth.
Suggested for: K-12, Teacher Admin
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Teaching Online Training Program
Description: This course looks at the main skills required for teaching online.
Main Topics:
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Training Program for Inquiry-Based Learning in Math
Description: This course aims to explore how using inquiry learning in a math class can increase student engagement and mastery of concepts.
Suggested for: 1-12 Teachers
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Importance of Mathematical Practices
Description: Teachers will examine the main features of problems that target the 8 Mathematical Practices (MPs) of the CCSS and learn how to promote meaningful discussions.
Suggested for: 1-12 Teachers
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: A Training Program for Mathematical Modeling in Three-Act Math
(When Math Happens)
Description: This training aims at identifying why you need to use 3-Act Tasks, how a 3-Act Task is useful, and what students can learn at the end.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Using the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy to Develop Learning and Assessment for Science and Math
Description: The revised Bloom’s Taxonomy helps teachers develop lessons and assessments that promote higher thinking levels. In this workshop, teachers examine how to develop learning and assessment tools based on the taxonomy and align them with the science and math standards that the school has adopted.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Planning for, and Teaching Math to Develop Students‘ 21st-Century Skills
Description: In a future that is more uncertain than at any time in recorded history, we need to address not only what should be learned, but how it will be learned so that the present generation will be able to make the right decisions and take the most appropriate actions for future generations to come. This short active session will focus on developing a core learning approach that could be expanded into a dynamic 21st century concept which can involve all stakeholders in education. The participants’ focus will be on using some of the current grade level expectations in Math and making a short-term learning plan that helps our students develop students 21st century skills during the Math periods
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Looking into Mathematical Shifts
Training Program
Description: This course aims at identifying mathematical shifts in order to provide a better understanding for educators when reading and unpacking the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
Suggested for: Elementary and Middle School
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Closing Math Learning Gaps with Data & Formative Assessment
Description: This training aims at clarifying the challenges within K-8 math and showing how you can utilize the formative assessment in enVision Math to close learning gaps.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Teaching Math: Methods & Strategies
Description: This training aims at exploring effective methods and strategies for teaching math.
Suggested for: K-8
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: A program for Successful Implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards
Description: This training supports the solid implementation of the NGSS and raises academic standards and graduation requirements.
Suggested for: 1 to 12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Increasing Students’ Interest in STEM Through Elevate Science Training Program
Description: This training aims at explaining how STEM activities can be utilized in the classroom using Savvas Realize Platform to equip students with 21st-century skills and help them solve real-world problems.
Suggested for: 1 to 12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Using the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy to develop Learning and Assessment
for Science and Math
Description: The revised Bloom’s Taxonomy helps teachers develop lessons and assessments that promote higher thinking levels. In this workshop, teachers examine how to develop learning and assessment tools based on the taxonomy and align them with the science and math standards that the school has adopted.
Suggested for: K to 12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Using the 5Es to Develop a Math / Science Lesson
Description:
Suggested for: K to 12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Planning for, and Teaching Science to Develop Students‘ 21st-Century Skills
Description: In a future that is more uncertain than at any time in recorded history, we need to address not only what should be learned, but how it will be learned so that the present generation will be able to make the right decisions and take the most appropriate actions for future generations to come. This short active session will focus on developing a core learning approach that could be expanded into a dynamic 21st century concept that can involve all stakeholders in education. The participants’ focus will be on using some of the current grade level expectations in science and making a short-term learning plan that helps our students develop students 21st-century skills during the Science periods.
Suggested for: K to 12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: **The Next Generation Science Standards Deconstruction for Classroom
Impact: Instructional Strategies that Achieve the Three Dimensions
Description:
Suggested for: K to 8
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Cross-Curricular Connections in Science
Description:
This training aims at exploring the Cross-Curricular Connections in Instruction in Interactive & Elevate Science and why it is important to have such connections.
Suggested for: Middle & High School
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Implementing Backward Design through the Elevate Science
Description: The aim of this training is to introduce effective ways to teach The Big Questions or Quest (Elevate Science) and how it positively impacts student learning and growth.
Suggested for: K-8
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Cross-Curricular Connections in Science
Description:
This training aims at exploring the Cross-Curricular Connections in Instruction in Interactive & Elevate Science and why it is important to have such connections.
Suggested for: Middle & High School
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Implementing Backward Design through the Elevate Science
Description: The aim of this training is to introduce effective ways to teach The Big Questions or Quest (Elevate Science) and how it positively impacts student learning and growth.
Suggested for: K-8
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Fostering 21st Century Skills through Science Process Skills Training Program
Description: This training highlights the 21st Century Skills and demonstrates how the 4Cs can enhance ways of thinking, learning, working, and living in the modern world.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Supporting Science learning with Embedded Phenomena in the Elevate
Science/Experience Chemistry/ Experience Physics Training Program
Description: This training aims to provide an understanding of the use of real-world problems through the storyline of Elevate Science/Exp Chemistry/ Experience Physics. It shows the impact of effective implementation on deep learning.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours
Topic: Training Program for Inquiry-Based Learning in Science
Description: This training aims to explore how using inquiry learning in a Science class can increase student engagement and mastery of concepts.
Suggested for: K-12
Duration: 2-2.5 Hours