December 9, 2011: Leading Class-Sensitive Schools and Turn-Around Reading and Readers in the CLASSroom
Description:
- The workshop, “Leading Social Class-Sensitive Schools” (instructed by Mark Vagle) is an exciting, stimulating, and practical workshop for district level administrators, building principals and assistant principals, counselors, and instructional coaches. The participants will learn about the five principles for change to better meet the needs of working-class and poor students; develop strategies for evaluating and coaching teachers with class-sensitivity in mind; design ways to make school improvement plans sensitive to social class; and examine how to make broad district, school, and classroom policies and practices anti-classist and anti-poverty.
- The workshop, “Turning Around Readers and Reading with a Social Class-Sensitive Approach” (instructed by Stephanie Jones) is a workshop for teachers, instructional coaches, and anyone interested in helping all students become powerful readers. Participants will learn about the social class-sensitive, five-part framework for differentiated instruction in reading; examine how social class and poverty play a role in reading and language in the classroom; analyze social class and poverty in popular culture, media, and literature through critical reading practices; design learning opportunities around working-class children’s literature; create a concrete plan for individualizing reading instruction for “struggling” readers and enhancing literacy for all students.
Instructors:
Dr. Mark Vagle, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Dr. Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Cost: $145 (includes a copy of the book The Reading Turn-Around, A Five Part Framework for Differentiated Instruction)
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
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December 2, 2011: Spanish for Non-Spanish Speakers: What Every Georgia Educator Should Know
Description: This one-day workshop is designed to enhance a teacher’s ability to understand and to work effectively with Spanish-speaking students and their families. No prior knowledge of Spanish is necessary. Workshop topics may include: writing letters to the Hispanic students’ parents; family customs and how they can relate to welcoming school and classroom environments; Mexican celebrations and holidays, and working with translation.
Instructor: Dr. Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Associate Professor, Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia
Cost: $250
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November 14, 2011: The Other Side of Poverty in Schools Workshop, Gwinnett Campus
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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November 10-11, 2011: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Fall Workshop Series: Sentence Writing Strategies
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
Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
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November 7, 2011: An Introduction to Propensity Score Matching (PSM)
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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November 3-4, 2011: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Fall Workshop Series: Unit Organizer Routine, Concept Mastery Routine, The Framing Routine
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 20-21, 2011: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Fall Workshop Series: The Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing and The Word Mapping Strategy
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 14, 2011: Theatre for Best Practice with English Language Learners
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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September 15-16, 2011: 4th Annual State of Education in Georgia Conference
Description: This conference is designed for educators, researchers, policymakers, elected officials, civic and business leaders and concerned citizens to learn more about the top education issues facing our State. This year’s conference theme is Partnering for Progress. Presentations will be given by UGA faculty, statewide leaders in education, and nationally recognized experts in the field of education
Keynote addresses will be given by: Arthur Levine, Andy Rotherham, Hank Huckaby and John Barge.
Cost: $115
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Validation: A General Framework and Prototypes (Institute Workshop) July 28-29, 2011 Conducted by Michael T. Kane, Samuel J. Messick Chair in Validity at the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
Description: In this seminar, Dr. Kane will introduce an argument-based framework for the validation of educational and psychological assessments, and will use the framework to analyze several types of interpretations/uses, including measures of observable attributes, traits, theoretical constructs, and decisions (e.g., placement decisions, certification decisions). The presentations will include discussions of the generalizability of scores and of a range of claims and decisions based on scores. The validation framework is quite general, but different interpretations and uses require different mixes of validity evidence, and a number of commonly occurring, or prototypical, cases will be considered.
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Back to Basics: Putting the Joy Back in Learning July 11-13, 2011 Conducted by Dr. Janna Dresden and Kyunghwa Lee
Description: The “Back to Basics: Putting the Joy Back in Learning” workshop is an interactive workshop for preK-3rd grade teachers. Attendees will learn how to cover multiple standards with a single set of activities, how thematic teaching makes everything easier and more meaningful, how to simplify planning and teaching while helping children become more responsible and enthusiastic learners, and how to connect the classroom to the local community.
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Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling, (Institute Workshop) June 21-24, 2011 Conducted by Dr. Debbi Bandalos
Description: This workshop will provide a foundation in structural equation modeling by introducing participants to the basics of model estimation, evaluation of model fit, and model interpretation for basic structural equation models. The models to be covered included path models, confirmatory factor analysis models, and full structural models. Instruction will consist of lectures and hands-on activities. As part of the workshop, participants will be instructed in the use of the LISREL computer package. Afternoon activities will involve conducting analyses using the LISREL package. If time permits, participants will also be provided help in analyzing their own data.
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Unlocking the Black Box: A Practical Guide to Measuring the Critical Components of Implementation Fidelity, (Institute Workshop) June 17, 2011 Conducted by Dr. Jennifer Hamilton
Description: This workshop will review the concept of implementation fidelity, its increasing relevancy to the evaluation field, and will discuss the measurement of its 5 key components: 1. Adherence, 2. Exposure, 3. Quality of the delivery, 4. Participant responsiveness, 5. Program differentiation
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3rd Annual CSSE Summer Institute June 16-17 2011 (Preconference June 15, 2011) Sponsored by the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education
For more information: please visit the conference website located at: http://www.coe.uga.edu/cssesummer/
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The Other Side of Poverty in Schools June 13-14 2011 Conducted by Dr. Stephanie Jones and Mark Vagle
Description: Two-day workshop, conducted by COE faculty members Dr. Stephanie Jones and Dr. Mark Vagle designed to help K-8 educators develop research-based teaching practices sensitive to working-class and poor children and families.
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What in the World is Phenomenology? (Institute Workshop) June 9-10, 2011 Conducted by Dr. Mark Vagle
Description: In this exciting and engaging two-day workshop at the University of Georgia qualitative researchers, instructors of qualitative research methods, and graduate students will learn about the philosophical and methodological foundations of phenomenology and practice some of the core methodological techniques of phenomenological research.
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