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The Common Core Standards make clear where students are going. They describe what today’s children need to know and be able to do in order to thrive. By focusing on results—the destination—rather than the how—the means of transportation—the Common Core allows for a variety of teaching methods and many different classroom approaches. The challenge for teachers is to ensure that the daily journey toward this destination is a rich learning experience for all students. In her presentation, Carol Jago will explain how making the shift to closer reading and more focused writing entails a deep understanding of how students learn how to learn.
Bill McBride
Engaging the Disengaged in Common Core Strategies
Duration: 60 minutes
Today's students see more and more of a disconnect between school environments and their technological world. Recent research clearly identifies six environmental stimuli that get the brain's attention—stimuli that are inherent in most pieces of technology. Yet teachers rarely employ these elements in their teaching to increase student engagement. This highly interactive workshop will model a number of Common Core brain-based literacy strategies that utilize all six stimuli and consequently get students involved in learning.
Dr. Debb Oliver
Authentic Performance Tasks
Duration: 30 minutes
Dr. Debb Oliver has 25 years of professional experience in the field of education. Join her for an insightful webinar where she'll explore how to develop an understanding of performance tasks, examine the rubrics for assessing student proficiency, and introduce practical tools to effectively drive task and instruction.
Erik Palmer
Reading Redefined
Duration: 60 minutes
Today, reading is much more than making sense of ink on paper. As students read enhanced texts and read online, they discover that reading involves embedded video, images, audio, and hyperlinks. To comprehend what they “read,” students need to be media literate, understanding the language of sound and image, they need to be Internet literate, understanding how to evaluate websites and the information contained on their pages, and they need to be digital-text literate, understanding how to stay focused in spite of distractions online. This webinar explains the skills needed by today’s readers and suggests ways to teach those skills.
Carol Jago
Common Core, Common Sense
Duration: 60 minutes
The Common Core Standards make clear where students are going. They describe what today’s children need to know and be able to do in order to thrive. By focusing on results—the destination—rather than the how—the means of transportation—the Common Core allows for a variety of teaching methods and many different classroom approaches. The challenge for teachers is to ensure that the daily journey toward this destination is a rich learning experience for all students. In her presentation, Carol Jago will explain how making the shift to closer reading and more focused writing entails a deep understanding of how students learn how to learn.
Bill McBride
Engaging the Disengaged in Common Core Strategies
Duration: 60 minutes
Today's students see more and more of a disconnect between school environments and their technological world. Recent research clearly identifies six environmental stimuli that get the brain's attention—stimuli that are inherent in most pieces of technology. Yet teachers rarely employ these elements in their teaching to increase student engagement. This highly interactive workshop will model a number of Common Core brain-based literacy strategies that utilize all six stimuli and consequently get students involved in learning.
Dr. Debb Oliver
Authentic Performance Tasks
Duration: 30 minutes
Dr. Debb Oliver has 25 years of professional experience in the field of education. Join her for an insightful webinar where she'll explore how to develop an understanding of performance tasks, examine the rubrics for assessing student proficiency, and introduce practical tools to effectively drive task and instruction.
Erik Palmer
Reading Redefined
Duration: 60 minutes
Today, reading is much more than making sense of ink on paper. As students read enhanced texts and read online, they discover that reading involves embedded video, images, audio, and hyperlinks. To comprehend what they “read,” students need to be media literate, understanding the language of sound and image, they need to be Internet literate, understanding how to evaluate websites and the information contained on their pages, and they need to be digital-text literate, understanding how to stay focused in spite of distractions online. This webinar explains the skills needed by today’s readers and suggests ways to teach those skills.
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