Professional Development Needs

If you would like to see any Technology Professional Development workshops on a specific topic, please let me know. If you took the TSAT and need to go over certain areas, we can setup some time to help too!

*NEW ANNOUNCEMENT:

Hello, Everyone –

Please let the teachers in your schools know that our listings for this summer’s professional development institutes have been published at http://www.doe.mass.edu/candi/institutes/10/.  These institutes are free and are designed to help teachers improve their knowledge of the arts, English language arts, health, mathematics, science and technology/engineering, and teaching English language learners.  In mid-May we expect to be posting additional institutes on topics in special education.  You can click on any of the links below for information about the content, schedule, location, and registration information for the institutes.

We hope to see you or educators from your school or district at these institutes!

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

2010 Professional Development Institutes

Content Area   

Arts   
Creating an Active Musical Classroom           
Critical Connections through Visual Arts and Literacy          
Drafting the Common Core Standards for Literacy in the Arts            
English Language Learners      
ELL Curriculum Workshop        
Health 
Talking about Sex Safely: An Advanced Practice Course for Experienced Classroom Sexuality Educators            
Literacy       
Building World Knowledge through Reading & Writing Informational Texts: What Effective Teachers Know & Do              
Critical Connections through Visual Arts and Literacy          
Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS)               
Literacy Coaching Institute - Cambridge        
Literacy Coaching Institute - Lowell           
Strong Writing & Reading: Lessons Learned from MCAS - Amherst          
Strong Writing & Reading: Lessons Learned from MCAS - Bridgewater              
Strong Writing & Reading: Lessons Learned from MCAS - Haverhill        
Strong Writing & Reading: Lessons Learned from MCAS - Worcester        
The Massachusetts New Literacies Institute             
Word Generation: Building Students' Academic Language and Schools' Internal Coherence          
Mathematics    
Fractions for Elementary School Teachers               
High School Mathematics: The Bird's View and the Frog's View           
Middle School Mathematics: The Bird's View and the Frog's View         
Reasoning & Problem Solving: Number Sense, Algebra, & Measurement              
Teaching Advanced Mathematical Decision Making         
Other  
Courses to be posted in Mid-May 2010           
Science & Technology/Engineering       
Assessing and Addressing Misconceptions in Physical Science            
Connecting Science and Literacy        
Implementing Technology/Engineering Standards          
Improving Middle Grades Science Teaching and Learning Through the Effective Use of Formative Assessments               
Laboratory Based Chemistry Content             
Laboratory Based Physics Content               
Teaching Earth and Space Science               
Teaching High School Biology           
Teaching Science through the Inquiry Process (TSIP)            
Special Education      
Courses to be posted in Mid-May 2010           

Director, Office for Humanities, History, and Social Science

Center for Curriculum and Instruction
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
75 Pleasant Street
Malden, Massachusetts 02148 USA
Phone: 781-338-6239 
swheltle@doe.mass.edu

Web Sites:

The web sites are a great resource for parents and students.

Web Site Ideas:

• Announcements
• Student of the week - first names only w/pictures
• Homework - Spelling words
• Resources and links
• They want to see what is happening in the classroom

 

Calendar

If you want to add something to the school calendar, please send me an email.