Integrating the ARTS with Literacy
Diane Noble - Art Teacher
Grades K-2
How can the ‘ARTS’ integrate into your teaching? The focus will be on integrating the arts through literacy from the beginning of making letters, to words, to rhymes and stories. Participants will learn simple theater games, music and memory techniques, creative movement and dance exercises and visual arts exploration. This will be an ACTIVE workshop! So…come dressed to MOVE, DANCE and CREATE!!
- 1/2 Day
How to Set Up & Run a Workshop
Dan Rothermel – Author & UNE Faculty
Grades K-8
Dan Rothermel, author of Starting Points: How to Set Up and Run a Writing Workshop and Much More (National Middle School Association), will have attendees participate in a reading/writing workshop to “feel” and understand what students go through when they write. In addition, participants will learn the routines and the structures that make writing possible in active classroom. Finally, participants will work in self-selected groups to create a reading/writing workshop that is ready-to-go in September.
- Full Day
Jr. Great Books
The Great Books Foundation
Grades K-8
Great Books Professional Development offers concrete, step-by-step instruction in how to use Shared Inquiry discussion and interpretive activities with Junior Great Books materials or with your own materials. The training prepares you to begin leading Shared Inquiry activities with students of all ability levels. Great Books professional development is one of only five programs to earn a place, at all three grade spans, on the National Staff Development Council’s “What Works” list. The training is a ten hour program which will take place over the course of two days.
- 2 Full Days
Noteshare
Michaela Lamarre - MLTI Lead Teacher
Grades 6-8
Any staff member with an MLTI laptop has noteshare. Participants will learn tools for classroom presentation and helpful sites and programs.
- 1/2 Day
DMI Training (Developing Mathematical Ideas)
Cynthia Hillmann Furbish - MMSA
Grades K-8
Building a system of Tens, is a professional development opportunity for educators interested in facilitating DMI trainings at their school/district level. It is designed to help teachers think through how students build a system of tens K-6 and how best to support each learner.
- Full Day
Fluency Instructional Practice
Mary Bellavance - Literacy Specialist SAD 57
We will provide opportunities for guided oral repeated reading that includes support & feedback from teachers, peers, and/or parents. Also, we’ll apply systematic classroom-based instructional assessment to monitor student progress in both rate and accuracy.
- ½ Day
What’s New in Adolescent Literature
Amanda Kozaka - Young School Librarian
Grades K - 2
Approximately 30,000 children's books are published every year. How do we know which are worth buying for our classrooms and using with our students? This workshop will provide you with advice and recommendations that will guide you through these decisions. Join us for a fun and informative session that explores what's new in children's literature.
- 1/2 Day
What’s New in Adolescent Literature
Deb Ullman
Grades 3 - 5
In an already hectic, stressful world do you really have time to sift through everything that’s out there to find the best books for your units or your students reading pleasure? Pull up a chair and join me in prospecting for what’s good in fiction and non-fiction – maybe a video too.
- 1/2 Day
What’s New in Adolescent Literature
Kathy Stevens - Saco Middle School Librarian
Grades 6 - 8
We will look at award winners, tried and true favorites, books in a series and books that will make you cringe that the kids just love. We will also survey on-line sources for reading materials for all, from the struggling reader or the kid who dislikes to read, to the really motivated bibliophile.
- 1/2 Day
Analysis of Student Work in PLC
Ellen Holmes – D.O.E. Distinguished Educator
Grades K-8
Focusing on results requires careful monitoring of all students. Data are an integral part of how PLCs do business and must become an integral part of the school culture.
- Full Day
Technology Integration
Laurie Underwood - Director of Technology
Monday - Create presentations using PowerPoint and Keynote
Tuesday - Learn how to locate, download and use templates to create classroom newsletters, brochures and more
Wednesday - Design a webpage using FirstClass
Thursday - Explore the use of SmartBoards to engage your students
- 1/2 Day
First Aid
Deb Salewski – Safety Educator
Grades K-8
The course for focus on the illnesses and injuries most common to children and their health. With this course you will become confident in administering and caring for the safety of those students or children in your care.
- Full Day
Differentiated Instruction
Therese Bernier-Burns
(K-4) & (5-8)
Join us to explore the model for Differentiated Instruction. As we learn more, we will develop lessons that will meet the needs of all learners in your classroom. Bring a classroom unit, project, or lesson plan and we will begin the process of differentiation. Be prepared to have fun, experience the model, and learn as much about yourself as you will about others!
