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Online Professional Development Opportunites
??? Questions about any of the online workshops should be sent to amhiggin@ednet10.net.
 Content Areas
  English/Language Arts:
Monitoring Comprehension - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 3 hours to complete.
Reading in the Content Areas - It's Just Different! - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 3 hours to complete.
Looking at Vocabulary - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 3 hours to complete.
Examining Student Work: Protocol for Improving Reading Instruction - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Emblematic Illustrations - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-
Strive to understand some of the ways that African Americans were portrayed in popular culture, some of the ways that they portrayed themselves, and the ways these portrayals reflect larger historical developments at the turn of the century by analyzing objects in American Memory.
Appropriate for middle school and high school educators.
Squeezing Documents - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Tour the collections and different media formats as you learn strategies and tips for successful searching.Use an inquiry approach to analyze and critically understand document based primary sources.
The workshop serves as a model and is intended to be replicated in classrooms.
The Great Depression - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-
Complete and discuss inquiry-based lessons related to the Depression Era novel, The Grapes of Wrath, using three different American Memory collections.
Building Fluency: Do It Well & Do It Right - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Feedback: A Powerful tool for Raising Student Acheivement in Language Arts - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 1 hour to complete.
Phonics: The Building Blocks of Early Reading - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Beginning to Write - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Phonemic Awareness - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Writing in Content Areas: Understanding Content - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Writing at High Levels in the Intermediate Grades - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Artifacts & Fiction - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-This video workshop for high school American literature teachers introduces techniques for reading cultural, political, and religious artifacts and connecting them to the literature they teach.
Conversations in Literature - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Teachers, academics, and authors gather as a “community of readers,” immersing themselves in classic and contemporary literature from Hamlet to works by Langston Hughes, James Dickey, and Alice Walker. These participants, led by Dr. Judith Langer, model the habits of effective readers in an approach known as “envisionment building.”
Developing Writers (for High School Teachers) - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Practical and philosophical advice for teaching writing, while examining issues every teacher faces—such as high-stakes assessments and dealing with differently abled students.
  Math/Science:
Standards-Based Differentiated Math - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Exploratory Learning w/Digital Microscope - (Self-paced with video clips, power point, and activities)
Course Overview-Digital microscopes allow teachers to enhance a very important childhood learning strategy, that of systematic close-up observation. The digital microscope encourages interaction, cooperation, and problem solving, all important elements of exploratory learning.
PBL, An Integral Approach: CSI - (Self-paced with video clips, power point, and activities)
Course Overview-
Join in for a journey through the project-based learning experience using the proven strategies in the Cemetery Scene Investigators (CSI) module -- one of the many successful journeys students, teachers, and community members collaboratively take in their lifelong pursuit of authentic learning.
Taking the "Dense" out of Density - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Feedback: A Powerful Tool for Raising Student Achievement in Math/Science - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 1 hour to complete.
Patterns to Symbols: Algebra - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Developing Computational Fluency in Addition & Subtraction - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Using Technology to Enhance Algebra Instruction- (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Early Steps Count: Teaching Arithmetic to Prepare Students for Algebra - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 1 hour to complete.
Measurement & Geometry: Building Conceptual Understanding in Young Children - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Science & CSI: Weaving Science & Math Into Lessons That Teach Kids to Think - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Linear Equations: Hands-on Method for Teaching Connections Among Equations, Tables, & Graphs -
(Video Workshop) Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 1 hour to complete.
Got the "H.O.T.S." for Inquiry? - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
 Social Studies/History/Economics:
Got History? Effective Practices - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Creative Portraits-Using Art & Artifacts to Deepen Historical Understanding - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Learn “Object Observation”, a method by which art and artifacts can deepen students’ historical understanding.
Strategies learned in the workshops can be shared with students of all ages.
Discovering American Memory - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-
Learn about the American Memory collections through a series of engaging activities. Use the provided tools as a basis for introducing important literacy skills needed when using primary sources.
It provides activities that could be used by teachers of students in grades 2-12.
Students as Historians - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Use photograph collections focused on the Civil War and African Americans to identify ways students can use American Memory collections as a basis for historical investigation.
The workshop serves as a model and is intended to be replicated in classrooms.
What Can We Learn from Yesterday's Stuff? - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-
Delve into advertisements, broadsides, leaflets, proclamations, and programs. Learn from these sources that speak to us of concerns and conditions of the everyday life of people like us who lived in the past.
The American West - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Use prints, photos, text, sound, and film from American Memory to examine and compare how the environment, natural resources, and migration of diverse peoples have influenced the development of the cultural identity of the West. It models use of inquiry and develops critical literacy skills for using primary sources.
It could also be used as an inquiry lesson for students of middle school through high school.
Finding the Invisible - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Define folklore and its potential in the classroom. Explore sense of place through the folklife and traditions of your own life and region using materials from American Memory.
Activities from the workshop could be applied, with appropriate modification to a K-12 classroom setting.
The Second Wave-European Immigration from 1850 to 1920 - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-
Follow a set of Web links to documents, images, and more to uncover what America was like for immigrants arriving at the turn of the century. Working with primary sources in small groups, create a firsthand account of a fictional family from one culture chronicling their experiences as immigrants.
This activity models a highly effective yearlong study of American history for middle school students. Workshop participants take the part of students who are learning about 19th and 20th century European immigration.
America's History in the Making - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Explore American history from the Pre-Columbian era through Reconstruction.
Bridging World History - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-A course for secondary school and college teachers that looks at global patterns through time. Topics are studied in a general chronological order, but each is examined through a thematic lens, showing how people and societies experience both integration and differences.
The Economics Classroom (for High School teachers) - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Provides a solid foundation for teaching the concepts covered in high school economics courses.
Making Civics Real - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-This workshop illustrates a constructivist approach to the teaching of civics.
Primary Sources: Workshops in American History - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-In this workshop, 12 high school history teachers explore the use of primary-source documents in the research and interpretation of American history. The programs feature informal lectures by prominent historians on pivotal events from the settlement of Jamestown to the Korean conflict and the Cold War.
Social Studies in Action: A Methodology Workshop K-5 - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Provides a methodology framework for teaching social studies, with a focus on creating effective citizens.
Teaching Geography - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Why do people migrate? What factors determine city location, growth, and development? How does place influence the spread of disease? These questions form the basis of inquiry for geographers, teachers, and students. In exploring such questions, this video workshop for seventh- through twelfth-grade teachers provides a strong foundation in geography content and inquiry teaching skills, as outlined in the National Geography Standards.
  Fine Arts:
Principals of Artful Teaching (for High School Teachers) - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-In this program you will see teachers applying the principles of artful teaching in dance, music, theatre, and visual art classes.
Developing Students as Artists (for High School Teachers) - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Arts teachers help students develop knowledge and fundamental skills while weaving in opportunities for creativity and independence.
The Arts in Every Classroom (for Elementary School Teachers) - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Provides new ideas about working with the arts for K-5 classroom and arts specialist teachers.
Connecting Wtih the Arts: (for Middle School Teachers) - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-The workshop shows middle school teachers why and how to integrate the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual art) with other subjects (language arts, social studies, science, and math).
Teaching Strategies
 Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated Instruction - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 3 hours to complete.
Differentiating Instruction in a High School Inclusion Setting - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Interdisciplinary Learning in Your Classroom - (Self-paced with video clips)
Course Overview - Understand What Interdisciplinary Learning is, how it has evolved, and how it affects you, your colleagues, and your students.
 Exceptional Learners:
Tapping Into Multiple Intelligences - (Self-paced with video clips)
Course Overview-Howard Gardner claims that all human beings have multiple intelligences. These multiple intelligences can be nurtured and strengthened, or ignored and weakened.
Theory of Multiple Intelligences - (Self-paced with video clips)
Course Overview-It answers the questions "Why is the theory of multiple intelligences important and how does it fit into the context of individualized instruction?" "What is the theory of multiple intelligences?" and "How can the theory of multiple intelligences by integrated into teaching and learning?"
 ESL:
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12 - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
This course includes eight separate half-hour videos to be viewed with activities for each one.
 Project Based Learning:
Project Based Learning in the Classroom - (Self-paced with video clips, power point, and activities)
Course Overview-It answers the questions "Why is Project-Based Learning Important?"; "What is Project-Based Learning?"; and "How Does Project-Based Learning Work?" This course is designed to take 3 hours to complete.
 Classroom Strategies:
Maximizing Instructional Time Through Positive Behavior Strategies - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Use the Relate Think Sheet: A Cognitive Strategy for Inclusion Classrooms - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Constructivism as a Paradigm for Teaching & Learning - (Self-paced with video clips)
Course Overview-Constructivist teachers encourage students to constantly assess how the activity is helping them gain understanding. By questioning themselves and their strategies, students in the constructivist classroom ideally become "expert learners."
Cooperative & Collaborative Learning - (Self-paced with video clips)
Course Overview-In this session you will focus specifically on how this technique for using small, cooperative
groups in education can help improve learning in your class.
Inquiry Based Learning - (Self-paced with video clips)
Course Overview-Educators must understand that schools need to go beyond data and information accumulation and move toward the generation of useful and applicable knowledge . . . a process supported by inquiry learning.
The Learning Classroom: Theory Into Practice - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-This video-based course is an exploration of learning theory—appropriate for grades K-12 and all subject areas—for the training of preservice teachers and the professional development of inservice teachers.
Looking at Learning. . . Again, Part 1 - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Understanding how children learn best is an important step toward improving mathematics and science teaching. Video based course.
Looking at Learning. . .Again, Part 2 - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Through personal interviews, teacher discussions, and classroom video footage, this workshop encourages you to analyze existing theories about how children learn, as well as your own beliefs, and then examine how those beliefs might influence your teaching.
Assessment - (Self-paced with video clips, power point, and activities)
Course Overview-This workshop answers the questions "Why is Assessment Important?"; "What are Some Types of Assessment?"; and "How Do Rubrics Help?"
Making Family and Community Connections - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-In this session you will look at ways to create partnerships among schools, parents, and members of the local community.
Teaching to Academic Standards - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Two kinds of standards are referred to -- content standards and performance standards.
Technology
Digital Media Resources:
To access the interactive training resources for Video Streaming follow the steps below:
1. Log in to the website.
2. Use your district issued username and password.
3. Click on the Professional Development tab.
4. Click on the Interactive Training link.
There are currently four lessons that you can choose from. Each has a printable certificate at the end of the workshop.
 Technology Applications:
Using Webquests - (Self-paced with video clips)
Course Overview-Search for the word "WebQuest" in any search engine, and you soon discover thousands of online lessons created by teachers around the world.
Why the Web? An Interactive Tool for the Classroom - (Self-paced with video clips)
Course Overview-Teachers guide student learning by posing problems, encouraging student questions, and offering opportunities for students to find solutions.
Prospecting in American Memory - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Use the west as your topic to discover search strategies to find information that needed in American Memory. This workshop is best done with a 2 or more teachers.
Searching American Memory - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Tour the collections and different media formats as you learn strategies and tips for successful searching. Appropriate for educators new to the American Memory collections.
Basic HTML - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Learn the basics of HTML: what it is, what its building blocks are, and how it is affected by file structure. Useful for HTML novices of all ages.
The Look. . .Design for the Web - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Examine basic, underlying design considerations for web builders. Useful for novice Web site designers of all ages.
Top Ten List for Web Designers - Designing Curriculum for the Web - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Outline the planning process necessary for designing effective Web sites. Find links to tutorials and help sites.
 Technology Integration:
Technology Integration Introduction - (Self-paced with video clips, power point, and activities)
Course Overview-Technology integration is the use of technology resources -- computers, digital cameras, CD-ROMs, software applications, the Internet, etc. -- in daily classroom practices, and in the management of a school.
Technology integration is achieved when a child or a teacher doesn't stop to think that he or she is using a computer or researching via the Internet. This workshop is designed for 3 hours credit.
Technology Integration: Language Arts & Social Studies - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-What does technology integration look like in the social studies or language arts curriculum? It looks like business as usual. Technology integration in the social studies or language arts curriculum supports students in their active pursuit of new knowledge. This workshop is designed for 3 hours credit.
Technology Integration: Math & Science - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Integrating math and science brings together two very important academic subject areas, and enhances both. This combination better reflects the place of mathematics and science in the real world, and it provides students with a context for how they will use what they're learning once they finish school. This workshop is designed for 3 hours credit.
Games Kids Play - PowerPoint Pizzazz - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Learn to create PowerPoint presentations of historical investigations conducted through primary sources from American Memory. Useful for PowerPoint novices of all ages.
How Did You Do That? Gif Animated Slide Shows - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Learn to create animated GIFs to enhance the look of Web pages. Findlinks to tutorials and free downloads. Useful for Web site designers of all ages.
It's All in the Design - Curriculum Design - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Create engaging curriculum that uses primary sources to provide a powerful learning experience for students. Use several American Memory collections as specific tools for curriculum designers.
Primary Sources: Learning w/American Memory Historical Collections - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Roll up your sleeves and use the exciting multimedia resources of the collections! Help your students understand what they “see”, “hear” and “read” in American Memory.
This workshop is appropriate for professional development purposes.
Strategies learned in the workshops can be shared with students of all ages.
Tech Tools:
SmartBoards:
SmartBoard Webinars - Log in on your computer and dial in on the phone to listen and talk
with the instructor while watching your screen. The schedule of workshops changes weekly and directions for attending a webinar can be found here.
eInstruction:
Classroom Performance System (CPS) - (Currently in our 3rd & 4th grade classrooms) When you register you will receive an email with instructions for attending the online webinar. The training list is updated monthly.
Graphing Calculators:
Algebra Using the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-This course introduces ways of incorporating graphing technology into your algebra lessons to enrich instruction and extend your students' comprehension. Essential algebra topics such as solving equations, transformations, systems of inequalities, proportional reasoning, and factoring are correlated to the NCTM Standards.
Administrators
Educational Leadership:
NCLB Basics for Teachers & Principals - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Building Teacher Leaders - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Standards-Based Education & Student Report Cards - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Exciting Teachers & Improving Student Achievement w/Standards-Based Assessment Data - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.
Assessment, Evaluation, & Curriculum Redesign - (Self-paced with video clips)
Course Overview-This workshop is based on the idea that if you begin your curriculum planning by thinking clearly about the form of assessments you intend to use, you will be able to design more effective classes.
View of the Principal and the Job - (Self-paced with video clips, power point, and activities)
Course Overview-This topic helps introduce the job of the principal as well as the individual to the job.
Teacher Supervision & Development - (Self-paced with video clips, power point, and activities)
Course Overview-This workshop helps introduce the role of principal as instructional leader.
New American Schools: Getting Better by Design - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-A video workshop on school reform for K-12 teachers, administrators, and policymakers; 9 video programs (from a half-hour to one hour in length) and workshop guide.
Principles for Principals - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-A video workshop on math and science education for K-12 principals; 8 one-hour video programs, workshop guide, and web site.
Critical Issues in School Reform - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-See how schools and communities are turning talk about school reform into action by adapting, implementing, or even inventing tools to make real improvements in student achievement. This workshop takes you to eight places around the country where teachers, parents, administrators, civic leaders, and others are collaborating on new practices in public engagement and professional development.
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