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seminar
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Illinois NCLB Conference
Workshops
Handout - Strategies to Help Minority Students Increase Their Academic
Achievem.pdf
Handout - Building a School Culture That is Assessment Lite.pdf
Available Seminars
Let's Begin With What We
Have
(3-Hour)
Your school staff can be
assessment-literate.
In this seminar teachers, school administrators, and district instructional staff study the beliefs, trends, and
events that led to the assessment tools that are already available. This
seminar makes connections between standards, assessment, and accountability.
Participants analyze the differences
and similarities, in terms of purpose, use, content, and format, between
criterion-referenced and norm-referenced tests and between national, state,
district, and classroom level assessments.
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It's a Good Thing
To Re-invent the Wheel
(6-Hour)
Equip your staff to develop their own
quality assessments for their classrooms. This workshop is designed to raise the
awareness level of teachers, school
administrators, and district instructional staff regarding the
function and importance of teacher-made classroom assessments. They discover
methods to improve their ability to align
their daily instruction and assessments to the state standards and assessments.
Teachers are equipped with tools to use in the process of developing classroom assessments that have a clear purpose, are aligned
to the state standards in content and rigor, use the appropriate methodology and
sampling, and are free from biases and distortion.
Test-Taking Experts
(3-Hour)
Give at-risk students the tools they need
to succeed in tests. Minority
and low-income students face challenges in testing situations. In this
staff development opportunity, teachers and school administrators learn to
identify these challenges and implement proven-to-work school/classroom
practices and test-taking strategies that will allow students to achieve a
greater level of test-taking success.
No Data Left Unused
(6-Hour)
The ability to mine, analyze,
communicate, and utilize data is an invaluable skill. In this seminar teachers, school
administrators, and district instructional staff learn how to work with data and use student assessment data reports (AYP, SAR, SPI, etc.) to
determine students academic needs and establish school academic goals.
Create a
Culture of Achievement
(6-Hour)
Learn to create an atmosphere of success.
At this training event, instructional
personnel at all levels will come to a deeper understanding of the relationship
between school culture and student achievement. They will be able to
identify classroom practices that create a better learning environment for all
students. They will be able to formulate and implement research-based
strategies for their schools to create a culture that increases academic
success.
Changing the "Whatever!"
Attitude
(3-Hour)
Be a catalyst to generate student motivation to learn.
Teachers and
school administrators increase their awareness of the role that student
motivation plays in academic achievement and learn about research-based and
proven-to-work school/classroom practices that can generate student motivation
to learn and improve performance in any testing situation.
No
Teacher Left Alone™
(3-Hour)
Build dream-teams as a result of this seminar. Teachers and school
administrators explore the advantages of teachers working together in grade
level and subject area teams so that all students reach proficiency. They
develop the ability to problem-solve within a team and increase its
effectiveness by understanding the characteristics of high-functioning teams and
recognizing the challenges that individuals face as interdependent members of a
team who validate each other.
No Parent Left Apart™
(3-Hour)
Informing and
involving parents empowers them. Teachers and
school administrators increase their awareness of the impact that parental
involvement has on student academic achievement and learn about research-based
and proven-to-work school practices and strategies that empowers parents and
increase involvement.
Let Them Be All That They Can Be
(5-Day)
Plan a
boot camp for teachers as a
training opportunity to develop expertise in mathematics.
Elementary school
teachers deepen and strengthen their mathematical knowledge in Number Sense and
Operations, Algebraic Thinking, Geometry/Spatial Sense, Measurement, and Data
Analysis and Probability; increase their capacity to solve word problems,
communicate findings, use reasoning and critical thinking, and make connections
to other sciences; learn teaching strategies to communicate hard-to-teach
mathematical concepts; learn how to use Power Point and Excel programs for
instructional purposes; and, build the self-confidence that will empower them to
teach mathematics to a diverse student population.
ˇVivan Los Estudiantes!
(3-Hour)
Get Latino
students to academic proficiency. Teachers, school administrators, and district
instructional
personnel increase their awareness of the challenges that Hispanic/Latino
students need to overcome in school and learn proven-to-work school/classroom
practices that will help them experience academic success.
Changing The
Headlines
(3-Hour)
Understand and
improve your school grade. Teachers,
school administrators, and district instructional personnel learn about the beliefs behind, components, and national/state trends
that led to the A + Plan; how Florida’s schools are graded; and, proven-to-work
school strategies to improve the school performance grade.
It's More Than "Yes" or "No"
(3-Hour)
Understand and use the Adequate Yearly
Progress
(AYP) Report. Teachers, school administrators, and district instructional
personnel learn about the beliefs behind, components, and national trends and
concerns that led to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act; how to read and
interpret the Adequate Yearly Progress Report (AYP), research-based practices
that can increase the academic achievement of the different subgroups; and,
establish goals to get all students to proficiency.
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