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Participants will learn how to create a classroom environment that supports effective literacy instruction for all learners. The components of balanced literacy, including the readers’ and writers’ workshop models, are explored. Creating effective mini-lessons and holding meaningful conferences to drive instruction will be an integral part of the course. Both formal and informal assessment instruments will be examined, including running records and the use of miscue analysis to interpret students’ use of the cueing system. Coursework will include Brian Cambourne’s Conditions of Learning and an emphasis on ensuring that we reach all learners, including struggling readers and English Language Learners.

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Facilitated by a veteran NYC teacher, participants will learn how to create a classroom environment that supports effective writing instruction for all learners, including struggling writers and English Language Learner. The components of writers' workshop are explored, with attention paid to creating effective mini-lessons and holding meaningful conferences to drive instruction. Both formal and informal assessment instruments will be examined in order to improve planning. Participants will share their analyses of children's texts to identify anchor texts that can be used to model writing. Participants also will take one piece of their own writing through the writing process to experience writing instruction firsthand.

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This online course explores three components of professionalism: developing partnerships with families, cultivating educational resources, and reflecting on practice. Strategies will be presented to develop relationships with parents in order to improve outcomes for students’ education. Creative approaches for identifying resources will be explored. Teachers will reflect on their practice to enhance their professional development.

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This online course is designed to introduce teachers to online resources and strategies for working with the Internet in the classroom. Teachers will complete several projects throughout the course, and learn tips and techniques for integrating Internet resources and projects seamlessly throughout the curriculum.

Recommended Sequence:

1. How to Use the Internet in Your Classroom 2. Web Tools for the Classroom 3. Making the Most of Web 2.0 in the Classroom

Questions? Please contact: sscragg@teachersnetwork.org

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Facilitated by a New York City veteran teacher, Online Course: Integrating Technology into the K-6 Elementary School Classroom provides K-6 teachers with a practical, hands-on introduction to the use of technology in elementary schools. Participants will learn practical ideas for enhancing their curriculum based on the state standards and scope and sequence for each subject area. Participants will also reflect on their classroom management, tailoring the material so that it is developmentally appropriate and accessible to their students, regardless of their age or abilities. Interdisciplinary projects incorporating technology will be created.

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This course is designed to enable teachers to acquire and use the tools of action research to study their instruction and discern alternative approaches to help students succeed. When teachers consider themselves to be researchers, not just consumers of research, they are exercising leadership. When teachers form networks to share their knowledge, they are designing their own professional development to reshape instructional practice.

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Facilitated by a veteran New York City teacher, “Making the Most of Web 2.0 in the Classroom” is a cutting edge course that introduces teachers to innovative web sites and explores ways to promote 21st century teaching and learning. Teachers discover how to integrate web resources across the curriculum, create hands-on technology projects, and understand how Web 2.0 tools impact student learning, skill acquisition, and motivation. Students are introduced to motivating ways to prove what they have learned while developing visual, spatial, literacy and technology skills.

Recommended Sequence:

1. How to Use the Internet in Your Classroom 2. Web Tools for the Classroom 3. Making the Most of Web 2.0 in the Classroom

Questions? Please contact: sscragg@teachersnetwork.org

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Facilitated by a veteran New York City teacher, Online Course: Math Is Not Only Numbers: Infusing Literacy and Brain Research in Teaching Math Concepts and Skills utilizes brain and learning styles research to teach mathematics to diverse learners. Literacy skills, including accountable talk, vocabulary, writing, and literature will be employed to teach math concepts. Manipulatives and math games will be used to differentiate instruction for all students.

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This online course will provide elementary school teachers with a variety of resources and strategies to help manage their classrooms. The focus will be on both effective prevention as well as intervention approaches. Well-managed classrooms where students know what is expected of them, materials are stimulating and accessible, and teaching methods are appropriate to the students' learning styles and needs will be examined. Additionally, components of effective teaching, including time management, consistency, and motivation will be discussed.

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This online course will provide secondary school teachers with a variety of resources and strategies to help manage their classrooms. The focus will be on both effective prevention as well as intervention approaches. Well-managed classrooms where students know what is expected of them, materials are stimulating and accessible, and teaching methods are appropriate to the students' learning styles and needs will be examined. Additionally, components of effective teaching, including time management, consistency, and motivation will be discussed.

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Facilitated by a veteran NYC teacher, this course examines the skills and actions students need to acquire a healthy lifestyle. Students who lead a healthy lifestyle grow and develop healthily, improve their concentration at school, improve their coordination, balance and strength, maintain a healthy weight, and are bright and active. These students are more likely to have a conscientious work attitude, demonstrate increased school productivity, and exhibit improved student learning. Through readings and interactive discussion, topics such as nutrition, physical activity, outside influences of peer pressure and media influence, addictions, emotional wellness, online safety, risky behavior, decision making, creating a healthy lifestyle plan and the role of the school in promoting a healthy lifestyle, will be explored . Participants explore healthy lifestyle behaviors, as well as learn and share differentiated strategies and best practices for enabling students to internalize healthy lifestyle choices and apply them in their daily lives.

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This online course will examine the process of planning, incorporating standards into the curriculum, and designing appropriate assessment tools. Teachers will identify the importance of advanced planning, learn to set achievable goals, and identify resources to implement their plans. In order to align curriculum, assessment, and instruction, teachers will examine the goals and standards set forth by their regions.

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This online course will focus on the concept that everyone learns differently, and that the way a teacher learns affects how he or she teaches. Educators will learn differentiated instructional strategies to reach diverse learners, many of whom seem not to succeed using only traditional teaching methods. Participants will identify various learning styles and intelligences and create lessons that match. This course will focus on students who need alternative teaching strategies to gain success, as well as on those students who are successful but still have untapped potential.

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Facilitated by a veteran NYC teacher, this course will examine the social traits and skills needed by students in order to become productive members of society. Students who drop out of school and workers who do not succeed in the world of work have noted their lack of social competency as a primary reason for their failure. Topics in the social skills curriculum include responsibility, respect, cooperation, citizenship, compassion, perseverance, peer relationships, goal setting, accepting differences, and dealing with bullies. Through readings and online discussion, participants explore social skills, as well as learn and share strategies and best practices for enabling students to internalize these skills and apply them in their interactions with others. Positive social skills developed will result in a more conscientious work attitude, increased school productivity, and improved student learning.

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Facilitated by a veteran New York City Teacher, The Special Education Student in the Inclusion Classroom focuses on the legal and civil rights of special education students. The course offers strategies to deal with various behavior management and academic issues. Models of team teaching and classroom strategies to differentiate instruction are presented that can improve outcomes for both special and general education students in the inclusion classroom. Participants will learn the components of the IEP and its use as a tool to set goals and structure planning to improve student achievement.

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Web Tools for the Classroom introduces teachers to free, dynamic, and interactive resources on the Internet which can enhance their teaching and learning. Participating teachers complete several projects throughout the course which allows them to acquire technology skills and learn new methods for integrating technology across the curriculum. This is a course designed for teachers who may be comfortable with using technology for personal uses, but may still be unsure how to best put technology to work in a classroom environment.

Recommended Sequence:

1. How to Use the Internet in Your Classroom 2. Web Tools for the Classroom 3. Making the Most of Web 2.0 in the Classroom

Questions? Please contact: sscragg@teachersnetwork.org