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Capstone Workshop Topics
Title of the Workshop: “Teaching High School English: Tried and True Methods that Work.”
This workshop will address and demonstrate methods of teaching reading, writing, and vocabulary to diverse learners through a variety of interactive methods. Participants will leave with useful material to integrate into their own language arts classroom.
Title of the Workshop: “Off to the “Write” Start: Technology Tools for Writing and Research.” Take a guided tour of key tools, view a showcase of projects ideas and explore teaching and classroom management strategies. Collaborative tools (such as Google docs, wikis, and blogs), multimedia writing tools (such as podcasts and digital stories) and research tools (such as Wikipedia, delicious, digital libraries, Google tools) will be explored.
Title of the Workshop: “So You’re Thinking about Becoming an Educational leader! How to Prepare Yourself Now for the Future.” With the leadership positions New Pathways students have often held in their previous professional lives, it is natural to assume that many will think about moving to administrative positions after a few years in the classroom. The time to start thinking about career move is NOW! This session will help participants identify key aspects of their teaching experience and professional development that will help them prepare for an administrative career. It will also help them to focus on key aspects of teacher leadership and on how demonstrating those qualities can help them become better educators by using skill they have worked so hard to develop in life and in other professions.
Title of the Workshop: “Literacy K-12 Grade Level"
This workshop will address literacy instruction K-12. It will focus on strategies for content instruction and best practices for improving student achievement in reading and writing. Title of the Workshop: “Let’s Create a Webquest” Webquest provide an authentic, technology-rich environment for problems solving, information processing, and collaboration. This inquiry-based approach to learning involves students in a wide range of activities that make use of internet-based resources. In this workshop, we will explore the vast array of webquests available to teachers and then work hands-on in small groups to create our own!
Title of the Workshop: “ Standard Motivation: Tapping into Students and Youth Culture to Meet Academic Standards”
A common paradox facing teachers is the necessity to “teach to standards” while Simultaneously trying to promote and exciting and “culturally relevant” curriculum. Using the term “culture” in a broad context as referring not only to elements of racial and ethnic traditions, but also to youth culture in general, this workshop will provide specific examples and techniques to help teachers creatively teach students in culturally relevant ways. With a forces on multiculturalism as a means of motivating students toward exceptional academic achievement, the participants will leave the workshop better equipped to not only survive, but thrive within our standards driven schools. An underlying premise to creating culturally relevant lessons is that such curricula engage students, thus limiting the amount and degree of student behavior problems. Not only is using student’s culture pedagogically effective, it also creates a more equitable and democratic learning experience for students. Example and techniques will cover a variety of content area including both elementary and secondary English/Language arts, foreign languages, sciences, mathematics and social studies.
Title of the Workshop: “Your Second Year of Teaching: New Challenges” The presentation will focus on three main themes; remember, revise and rejuvenate. We will use practical example from NPTNJ and classroom experiences to remember what worked very well and fix what didn’t, revise lesson plans, rules and procedures, and teaching methods, and rejuvenate teacher’s minds through summer courses or individual research that will give them renewed energy and enthusiasm for the year ahead. We will also focus on the expectations that administrations will have for the second year teacher, and how to replace NPTNJ with other support groups. We will also address the needs of those teachers who taught for the whole year, but were not asked to return by their districts. The feedback I received after this presentation at the 2005,2007 and 2008 Capstone Conference was overwhelmingly positive. Teachers commented that using actual lessons and classroom materials helped them to see how they could improve on their first year’s performance. They also remarked that by reviewing their teaching methods, they saw where they could incorporate more literacy, cooperative and differentiated instruction strategies in to their classrooms. Those teachers who where not asked back were more hopeful after we reviewed interview strategies and what to include in their portfolios.
Title of the Workshop: “Classroom Management Techniques for Using Learning Centers to All Subjects Areas in Elementary School.” This workshop will present strategies for designing and implementing learning center activities which meet core curriculum content standards in the elementary school classroom. Learning centers will be presented as a method for differentiating instruction, increasing motivation, and integrating subject area learning. The focus will be on interactive, hands-on learning activities with concrete examples and slides of exemplary classrooms. Classrooms management strategies for new teachers will be emphasized throughout the presentation. Attendees will leave this section with step-by-step practical ideas for using learning centers in their own classrooms. Title of the Workshop: “Teaching Fractions with Understanding” Most people are fraction-haters! Why? Because they learned about the rules for operating with fractions without understanding why the rules make sense. Converting a mixed number to an improper fraction, as well a adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions, are particular obstacles for students. Elementary teachers need to prepare their students for a conceptual understanding of operations with fractions, middle school mathematics teachers must provide that conceptual understanding, and secondary mathematics teacher will remediate or encounter the problem again in the teaching of rational expressions. Mathematics teachers at all levels will benefit from examining why the rules for operating with fractions make sense and receiving strategies for teaching fraction from a more visual and intuitive framework. Title of the Workshop: “Good Ideas For Teaching Math Outline:
Title of the Workshop:Classroom. “Integrate SmartBoards Seamlessly into Your Lessons” has been changed to " Out-of-the-Box—and Easy!—Projects for Your Classroom." Join us as we present innovative, hands-on projects designed by P-12 classroom teachers to reinforce and enrich student learning. The topics will cover a wide variety of grades and subjects, such as the “Tech Camp Connection” for young adults with disabilities and “The Cozy Corner” reading center, to name just two. You will leave with turn-key ideas and hand-outs forprojects,manyt of which utilize SmartBoard technology.
Please note that those that already have registered for this workshop, the workshop is still on SMART BOARDS with a few extra components added.
Title of the Workshop: "Exploring the SMART Board and Notebook Software- Beginners/Advanced"
This Course is design to help teachers advance their skills with the use of SMART Board interactive whiteboard and Smart Notebook software. The training will focus on computer applications that can be integrated with SMART Board to enhance teaching and learning in all subjects areas. Teachers will have the opportunity to research existing Notebook Software templates and develop their own lesson plans for SMART Board use. The session is hand-on and encourages practice on the SMART Board, Can be geared toward beginners/advanced classes.
Title of the Workshop: “Do it Yourself Media in English and Language” This hand- on presentation will explore ways to create engaging, students-centered projects with various media. These projects address both conventional and 21st century literacies. The focus of the presentation is on both the technical skills and the habits of mind that students need to be successful in the digital age. The focus will be free and open-source software and inexpensive and accessible hardware.
Title of the Workshop: " The English Language Learner in Your Classroom: Cultural Considerations and Effective Teaching Strategies"
This workshop will address cultural and linguistic aspects of English Language Learners that will assist you in meeting the needs of your students including effective teaching strategies and alternate forms of assessment. All levels
Title of the Workshop: “Math Investigations” This workshop will focus on teaching math in a visual and tactile way through discovery . Applicable in any classroom, strategies for word problems and real life applications will be addressed.
This program will focus on the mostsuccessful instructional models utilized in special education inclusion classrooms. Participants will explore the strengths andlimitations of each model. They will also experience a practical conflict resolution strategy that addresses the daunting challenges that inevitably arise within inclusion teaching partnerships. Title of the Workshop: “Planning to change districts?” “Sprucing up the resume and interviewing skills’ This session focuses on the difficult process of changing jobs and all that it entails.Students who choose this workshop are requested to bring a copy of their own resume and cover letter for discussion purposes.
Title of the Workshop: "Teaching Social Studies for Middle and Secondary Levels"
This session will focus on teaching methodologies in Social Studies. Practical suggestions and ideas for effective teaching will be presented.
Title of the Workshop: "Teaching Science for Middle and Secondary Levels"
This session will focus on teaching methodologies in Science. Practical suggestions and ideas for effective teaching will be presented. |
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