October 3rd, 2011 |
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Archived, Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM)® Workshop Series, Workshop
Description: This two-day workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM® ) and will prepare them to implement research-based interventions to help students acquire strategies for writing and editing a variety of types of paragraphs for effective written communication. This strategy is targeted towards students in grades 4 through 12 who struggle with written expression. The Paragraph Writing Strategy is a strategy for organizing ideas related to a topic, planning the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph, planning the sequence in which ideas will be expressed, and writing a variety of topic, detail, and conclusion sentences.
Important Note: Participants in this workshop ideally would have already received professional development in the SIM® Sentence Writing Strategy, the precursor to the Paragraph Writing Strategy, in order to provide students with the minimum sentence writing skill prerequisites needed to successfully write paragraphs. The SIM® Sentence Writing Strategy Workshop which took place on November 10-11, 2011.
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Cost: $275
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Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: This conference seeks to examine “the gaps” that exist in education so that we can collaborate for solutions.
- Pre K – 16 practitioners often experience a “gap” in the curriculum as students transition from one level to the next.
- Students and practitioners encounter “gaps” in the system through barriers that exist which prevent student success.
- Diversity can contribute to a “gap” between students and practitioners as they face differences in values, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, language, class, etc.
- Inequity in services and access to resources contribute to a “gap” in achievement among students as well as the ability for practitioners to serve students adequately.
- “Gaps” can also highlight opportunities for change brought about by educators “collaborating for action”.
Come engage with colleagues to learn ways to fill these gaps.
Keynote Speaker:
Patricia Martin, Assistant Vice President, National Office for School Counselor Advocacy, http://bit.ly/patricia-martin-bio
Cost: $45
Location: UGA Gwinnett Campus, Lawrenceville, Georgia
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Archived, The CLASSroom Project at UGA Workshop, Workshop
Description: In this exciting, stimulating, and intensive one-day workshop at the University of Georgia, teachers, administrators, counselors, and teacher educators will:
• Learn about the five principles for change to better meet the needs of working-class and poor students
• Develop research-based teaching practices sensitive to working-class and poor children and families
• Reflect on formative assessment of working-class and poor students across the curriculum
• Take away powerful classroom ideas for incorporating social class-related content
• Get ideas for establishing positive relationships with working-class and poor families
Instructors:
Dr. Mark Vagle, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Dr. Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Cost: $125
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: The Inference Strategy is a set of procedures readers can use to comprehend written passages and answer inferential questions (questions that are not answered directly in the text). Research results showed that students who learned the Inference Strategy improved their ability to make inferences and to identify different types of questions. The Vocabulary LINCing Routineis designed to facilitate student use of two powerful tools —an auditory memory device and a visual memory device—that will help them learn and remember the meaning of complex terms. Research results showed that students, including those with learning disabilities, improved their performance by an average of 19 percentage points on vocabulary tests.
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Cost: $275
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Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: This two-day seminar will offer participants an opportunity to understand the ins-and-outs of the statistical package R. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. While powerful and free, many find that the learning curve can be a bit steep. This workshop helps to flatten the learning curve just a bit so that participants can tackle individual research projects with greater confidence once the workshop is completed. Topics covered during the workshop include: Introduction to R, data structures in R, data import and export, If else, loop, write your own function, graphics, summary of data with R, basic concepts of probability and statistics, analysis of means with R, and analysis of variances and regression with R.
Numerous “add-on” packages, offering almost unlimited analysis options, are available for R users. Many of these packages will be examined. However, participants will also learn a bit about the basics of programming in R so that the use of packages will make more sense later on. In addition to specific topics, facilitators will offer ways to conceptualize the use of R in developing data strategies. Participants will work on simulated and real data analysis problems throughout the sessions to apply and reinforce class concepts.
Workshop Facilitators:
Seok-Oh Jeong
Visiting Scholar and Associate Professor
Department of Statistics, University of Georgia
Department of Statistics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
In Heok Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
Program of Workforce Education, University of Georgia
Jay W. Rojewski
Professor
Program of Workforce Education, University of Georgia
Cost: $300 (Includes refreshment breaks and lunch each day)
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: The Unit Organizer Routine: Teachers use the Unit Organizer Routine to plan units; introduce and maintain the big ideas in units; and show how units, critical information, and concepts are related. Research results showed that students whose teachers regularly and consistently used the Unit Organizer Routine scored an average of 15 percentage points higher on unit tests than students whose teachers used it only irregularly; The Concept Mastery Routine: Teachers use the Concept Mastery Routine to define, summarize, and explain a major concept and where it fits within a larger body of knowledge. Research shows several benefits for secondary students when their teachers use this routine. The Framing Routine: Teachers use the Framing Routine to transform abstract main ideas and key topics into a concrete representation that helps students think about and talk about the key topic and essential related information. Research results have consistently demonstrated that the routine can effectively facilitate subject-matter learning as well as the development of literacy and thinking skills.
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Cost: $275
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Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: This 1-day workshop will provide a systematic overview of PSM, examine its advantages and limitations, and offer general guidelines for participants interested in applying the method to their own research. While the primary focus of the workshop is on providing participants with a beginning conceptual understanding of the technique, application of PSM using alternative software packages (including Rand STATA) will also be included in the content. Education researchers, state department personnel, administrators, and practitioners may benefit from this course.
Cost: $125
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Archived, Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM)® Workshop Series
Description: This two-day workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM)® and will prepare them to implement research-based interventions to help students acquire strategies for writing and editing sentences for effective written communication. The Sentence Writing Strategy series, a two-part program that includes Fundamental and Proficiency levels, is targeted towards students in grades 4 through 12 who struggle with written expression. In addition to a writing strategy, students can be taught 14 sentence patterns with four types of sentences: • simple • compound • complex • compound-complex
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Cost: $275
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Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Archived, The CLASSroom Project at UGA Workshop
Description: In this exciting, stimulating, and intensive one-day workshop at the University of Georgia, teachers, administrators, counselors, and teacher educators will:
• Learn about the five principles for change to better meet the needs of working-class and poor students
• Develop research-based teaching practices sensitive to working-class and poor children and families
• Reflect on formative assessment of working-class and poor students across the curriculum
• Take away powerful classroom ideas for incorporating social class-related content
• Get ideas for establishing positive relationships with working-class and poor families
Instructors:
Dr. Mark Vagle, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Dr. Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Cost: $125
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: The Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing is designed to teach the fundamental skills students need to be able to identify and paraphrase main ideas and details. Fundamentals contains lessons on paraphrasing words, phrases, and sentences, as well as lessons on identifying main ideas and details in paragraphs and short essays. The Word Mapping Strategyinvolves breaking words into their morphemic parts (prefix, suffix, root); attaching meaning to each word part; making a prediction about the meaning of the unknown word based upon the meaning of each part; and checking the dictionary for the definition. The mnemonic MAPS helps students learn and remember the names of the steps.
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Cost: $275
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Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: Join Dr. Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor for a one-day workshop in theatre games to enhance English Language Learners’ (ELLs) academic achievement and motivation. No theatre experience required. Through hands-on interactive activiites and lessons geared to specific grade levels and language proficiencies, teachers develop the knowledge and skills to implement drama strategies for second language acquisition in the TESOL and foreign language classroom as well as in general language arts classrooms to promote dynamic, multicultural communication strategies for all.
Instructor: Dr. Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Associate Professor, Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia
Cost: $200
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