Solving
the Assessment Puzzle - Piece by
Piece
How and
why we assess students are the
essential questions of this workshop.
We look at the use of and abuse of both
standardized testing and report cards,
but the major emphasis is on how to
develop and use types of performance
and authentic assessments. Included are
rubrics, portfolios, performance based
tasks and products, student logs,
rating scales, checklists, and student
reflections. This is a workshop for
teachers who have no experience with
alternative assessment, those who have
heard the terminology but do not know
how to implement it, and for those who
have some experience with alternative
assessment but would like to learn
more.
Conflict,
Conferencing and
Communication
Participants
in this workshop will examine
guidelines for positive communication,
see the impact of hidden agendas on
good communication, and discover how to
develop a Circle of Respect within a
classroom, school or school system. We
also will learn how to use a Conference
Checklist, will assess Conflict
Management styles and learn about the
assets, liabilities and consequences of
each. We will discuss basic negotiating
skills and tips for dealing with
aggression. Finally, we will learn 10
steps to Successful Conflict
Resolution.
Creating
Achievers: Steps to
Success
In this
workshop, participants review the main
steps in helping students to become
achievers: Self Confidence, Goal
Setting, Motivation, Time &
Organizational Management, Study
Skills, and Dealing With "The System".
Practical suggestions for teachers
which can be used in the classroom
immediately.
Developing
Critical Thinkers for the Information
Age
In an
age of 'Information Glut', it is
essential that we teach our students
how to be critical and careful
information consumers. Various types of
information are not created equal!
Strategies and criteria for helping
students critically record and evaluate
information from print, television,
video, the Internet and other sources
and then use it carefully to reflect
their own conclusions is the focus of
this workshop. If your students think
'Independent Study' means playtime, or
if they ask, ''If it's on the Internet,
does that mean it's true?''....this
workshop is for you!
Differentiating
Curriculum in the Multi Ability
Classroom
How can
teachers meet the needs of all their
students when these needs and ability
levels are so diverse? This
workshop focuses on practical
strategies showing teachers the
"how-to" of differentiation.
Strategies include flexible grouping,
tiered lessons and units, curriculum
compacting, independent study, learning
centers, learning contracts, ways to
give students choices of learning
activities, classroom management
strategies in a differentiated
classroom and more.
Encouraging
Achievement: Challenge, Responsibility
and Persistence
How can
we encourage students to embrace
academic challenges and choose
demanding learning activities instead
of the easiest ones? How do we
encourage them to persist through times
of stress, disappointment or failure
and take responsibility for their own
learning? How do we teach students to
plan long range assignments and
independent study so that they make the
best use of their time? How do we
encourage discouraged students? Find
some answers to these and other similar
questions in this workshop.
Creative
Teaching Strategies
This
hands-on workshop gives teachers the
opportunity to learn about the basic
principles of both creative and
critical thinking, and to see how
teaching these skills is necessary in
order for our children to be productive
citizens in the 21st Century.
Strategies and techniques for
integrating creative learning
activities into ongoing curriculum are
demonstrated and discussed, and
participants are actively involved in
exercises which help to develop the
creative process.
Motivating
Underachievers
Frustrated
by students who have potential to
achieve but somehow do not? This
workshop focuses on these
students...our underachievers. We will
examine the causes of underachievement,
and explore numerous practical
strategies which can be used by
teachers, counsellors, and parents
to help and encourage
underachieving students. Suggested
strategies are practical and can be
implemented in any school
setting.
Parent-Teacher
Collaboration
In this
workshop, Carolyn gives practical
suggestions for building trust and
communication between home and school.
Also includes methods for structuring
and planning parent-teacher
conferences, communication skills,
developing positive attitudes which
invite home-school collaboration, and
suggestions for post conference
follow-up. Includes role playing and
skills practice.
Study
Skills for Successful
Students
Many
students lack those study skills
necessary for success in school. These
skills can be taught in a special study
skills unit or as part of the ongoing
teaching within the classroom. This
workshop gives teachers specific
techniques to help students in
memorization, organization and
planning, goal setting, time
management, active reading, listening
and notetaking, and test taking
skills.
Teaching
Tools for the 21st Century:
Using Multiple Intelligences and
Learning Styles in the Classroom
This
session provides practical, concrete
methods for individualizing lessons and
units which meet the needs of all
students, and gives specific teaching
strategies and techniques which can be
used with a variety of learning styles
and ability levels. Includes
opportunities for student choices,
multiple intelligences, learning
modalities, Bloom's taxonomy, use of
new technologies and alternative
assessment strategies. Teachers
attending this workshop will develop
lesson plans which they will be able to
use in their classrooms. Based on
Carolyn's best selling book of the same
name.
What
To Do for Stressed Out Kids:
Dealing With Stress and Perfectionism
in Children
This
presentation deals witrh stressors
faced by children and some of the
things parents and teachers can do to
help alleviate them. The causes of
stress in modern society are examined,
with an emphasis on those factors which
most affect children. Strategies and
techniques for dealing with childhood
stress are given. Participants have the
opportunity to discuss problems they
see with specific children.
Conflict
Management and Problem
Solving
Participants
define and assess a variety of conflict
management styles, and learn what style
they normally use in conflict
situations. This workshop emphasizes
ways to solve individual conflict
management problems through an
examination of conflict management
styles, and by using the creative
problem solving method for conflict
resolution.
The
Time of Your Life: Ways to Manage It
Effectively
This
workshop reviews basic principles of
time management and organizational
skills. Participants examine the role
of time in modern society, identify
time wasters, assess their own time
management strengths and weaknesses,
learn helpful hints for being more
organized, and develop strategies for
improving individual efficiency,
flexibility, and
effectiveness.
