Train-the-Trainer and Professional Development Kits have had a positive lasting effects that provide growth opportunities that carry over into practice. They became very popular with schools and districts interested in training key staff to mentor and support other staff.
Response to Intervention Strategies for Secondary Teachers - This seminar will help alleviate the fear and confusion surrounding RTI, especially at the secondary level, by providing practical, classroom-tested techniques for Tiers I, II and III as well as user-friendly materials that can be implemented immediately in your classroom.
Paraprofessionals And Teachers Working Together in the General Classroom-Seminar will provide paraprofessionals as well as general and special education teachers with practical, easy-to-integrate, proven techniques for making inclusion successful. A wealth of ideas will be presented that will help all of your students be more productive in the content area. The seminar’s focus will be on introducing practical strategies that have been proven successful when working with students with special needs in inclusive or general education classrooms.
Chunking Lesson Plans™ - Using Precious Teaching Time to Reach More Learners - Seminar will introduce teachers to real-time assessment and creative grouping techniques to focus their limited teaching time in a more productive way. Teachers will learn to teach their lessons in manageable CHUNKS, allow time for students to PROCESS that information with high yield, researched based methods, and then ASSESS student achievement at the end of a lesson to adjust the next lesson.
Differentiated Instruction Strategies to Reach ALL Learners in the Inclusive Classroom - This full day program explores the ways that the brain learns and discusses a variety of brain-based, research supported, "implement tomorrow" strategies that will help teachers reach ALL the learners in their classrooms including gifted, English language learners and students with special needs. The strategies and techniques in this program can be used to support your school or district's differentiation initiatives, common-core implementation, or Response to Intervention requirements. If you want your teachers to realize increased achievement for their students, this program is the first step!