Salem State
Collaborative
2010 Summer
Institute Course Offerings
Dates: June
28 – 30, 2010
Location: Lynnfield High School, 275 Essex
Street, Math/Science Wing unless otherwise noted
Time: 8:15
AM to 2 PM
Fees: One
Day Workshop Members $35 Non-Members $95
Two
Day Workshop Members $70 Non-Members
$190
Three
Day Workshop Members $95 Non-Members $275 ($100 for Grad Credit)
Fee includes Morning Refreshments and Lunch
PDP’s 5
PDP’s per Workshop Day
Elementary
Workshops
Workshop 1: Survival Tips for Elementary Teachers: Strategies for Being an Effective Teacher
Presenters: Judi
Lucia and Debbie Guenard
Audience: Grades 1-6 Teachers
Dates: June
28, 29
Description: Topics for discussion will include: Setting up classroom
expectations, routines and procedures; Classroom Management including
appropriate discipline and reward techniques; Communication with parents and
with students; Cooperative Learning for you and your students.
Additionally, time will be given for participants to actually work on materials
from the sessions that can be utilized in their own classrooms.
Workshop 2: How to Teach Reluctant Writers
Presenters: Liz Lund, Elementary Writing Consultant
Audience: Grade 2-6 Classroom Teachers
Dates: June
28, 29
Description: Six important strategies have been identified that will meet the needs of reluctant writers .Workshop participants will obtain:
Session 1 Strategy #1 Having an Audience
Strategy #2 Using Technology
Strategy #3 Writing About Personal Interests
Strategy #4 Writing with Peers
Session 2 Strategy #5 Breaking Writing Down Into Smaller Parts
Strategy #6 Incorporating Art & Music Into Writing)
Strategies for Parents and Sharing Experiences
Workshop 3: The Power of Wind: A Hands-on Approach to Investigating
Technology/Engineering Content
Presenters: Carolyn
DeCristofano, Deb Dempsey
Audience: Grade
3-7 Teachers
Dates: June 28, 29, 30
Description: Tinker and design your way to a true understanding of content from the
Technology/Engineering strand in the MA Science Frameworks. This introductory
mini-course, developed for upper elementary and middle school teachers, offers
direct, hands-on experiences with engineering design. Our focus will be on
generating electricity with wind energy—a topic that’s all the more relevant,
now that Cape Wind has been approved. You will see how these challenges connect
to other topics. Expect to develop a flexible understanding of: the 8-step Engineering
Design Process; the interconnections among engineering, technology, science
content, inquiry, and the social world; and key themes across all engineering
content. We’ll also examine a popular elementary level, 5-step Engineering
Design Process used in elementary classrooms, so that you can choose to work
with whichever version makes sense in your context.
Workshop 4: Making a Data Assessment Plan Before School Begins
Presenter: Jane Tremblay, Principal, Summer
Street Elementary School
Lynnfield Public Schools
Audience: Elementary
School Principals and Curriculum CoordinatorsE
Date: June 28
Description: This five hour seminar is designed to help administrators, leaders, and teams of teachers devise a data and assessment plan for the upcoming school year. Topics will include setting time aside, deciding on which data to collect, analysis of the data and planning for next steps or interventions based on the results of the classroom data. The seminar will involve discussions, examples of formats that work and group time for teams to begin the planning process for the 2010-2011 school year.
Workshop 5: Number Theory
Presenter: Michael Kascak, Principal, Hillside
Elementary, Needham
Audience: Grade
2-5 Teachers
Date: June 28, 29
Description: This workshop will focus on using hands-on materials to help students develop and strengthen their understanding of number theory. Participants will work through and then reflect on developmentally appropriate activities for grades 2-5. We will use Cuisenaire Rods and other manipulatives to cover number fact models, the four operations of computation, fractions and decimals, algebra and prime factorization. The experiences in this workshop will help teachers bolster their own understanding of the concepts as well.
Workshop 6: Bookmaking in the Classroom
Presenter: Deb
Whitmore Levene, Elementary Art Teacher
Audience: Grades 1-6 Teachers
Dates: June
28, 29
Description: This make-it-and-take-it workshop allows participants
to experience various bookmaking processes. Numerous folding and sewing
bookmaking techniques will be demonstrated. These techniques can be used to
reinforce learning in many curriculum areas such as math, language arts, social
studies, science, etc. Each participant will create and present an integrated
bookmaking project appropriate for use in the classroom.
Workshop 7: Open Response Writing
Presenter: Joan
Pokrant, Elementary Education Consultant
Audience: Grades 1-6 Teachers
Dates: June
28, 29
Description: This workshop will help teachers improve the quality of their open response prompts and writing lessons. Many strategies will be presented to help your students write an effective, quality response to all content area open response questions including response to literature.
At this workshop you will learn to:
Workshop 8: How To Teach Writing Skills Workshop
Presenter: Joan
Pokrant, Elementary Education Consultant
Audience: Grades 1-6 Teachers
Date: June
30
Description: This one day workshop is divided into two segments. During the first segment, the concept of using a teaching packet to teach a writing skill will be presented. Teachers will participate in a variety of cooperative learning or living activities designed to teach writing skills such as: varied sentence beginnings, topic sentences, complete sentences, writing paragraphs, etc. During the second half of the workshop, teachers will design and create a skill packet to teach one focus correction area to be used in their classrooms.
Materials such as sentence strips, markers, scissors, index cards, manila envelopes, and glue should be brought to the workshop.
Presenter: Lisa Hutchings
Audience: Grades: K-4
Dates:
June 28, 29 30, 2010
Location: Joppa Flats Education Center, One Plum Island Turnpike,
Newburyport MA (978) 462-9998
Description: Nature
education specialist Lisa Hutchings and offer training for enhanced teaching
methods for educators, curriculum specialists, and home school educators. This
three day workshop will be held at the Joppa Flats Education Center at One Plum
Island Turnpike with outdoor components held at the Parker River National
Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island. Tuesday,
Monday, June 28: Where the
River Meets the Sea
This in-the-field session will investigate the salt marsh and sand dune
ecology of the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island. Whether
preparing for winter or waking up to spring, seasons mean change for all living
things. Adaptations, habitats, tracks and signs, and environmental stresses and
challenges are the focus of this workshop. Activities can be modified for the
field or the classroom.
Tuesday, June 29: Bringing the Outside In
Mass Audubon staff will show you the benefits of setting up simple but
effective discovery centers in your classroom by bringing nature indoors. This
program demonstrates the importance of child-generated investigations,
observations, and organizing of data. Activities include setting up sensory
focus stations, and designing creature “comfort zones” in your classroom. We’ll
also demonstrate simple steps to make the most of your schoolyard and open
spaces. Microhabitats, puddle chemistry, and collecting techniques and tools
will be introduced.
Wednesday,
June 30: Schoolyard Science
Turn every day recess into a focused science activity! Mass Audubon staff will prepare a variety of activities and experiments that demonstrate simple steps to make the most of your school yard and open spaces. Weather and cloud identification, soil sampling, guided nature walks, the rock cycle, and collecting techniques and tools will be introduced. Schoolyard surveying tips and all teacher handouts will be provided. Note: Parts of this workshop will be conducted outdoors if weather permits.
Technology
Workshops
Workshop 10: SMARTBOARDS
and SMART’s Notebook Software for Beginners
Presenter: Leane Manderson – Marylou
Sambatakos, Lynnfield Public Schools
Audience: Grade K-12 Classroom Teachers
Dates: June
28, 29
Description: Using the new SMART Board software, called SMART Notebook 10.0, teachers will learn how to manipulate all the wonderful SMART Board features and tools across their curriculum. Teachers will not only get the opportunity to learn how to use the software but also learn how to use the SMART Board itself. It is recommended that you bring any curriculum materials that you want to put on the SMART Board software, plus download the software for free at www.smarttech.com so that you can save anything that you work on. Please bring a flash drive to collect and share files for each session.
Session 1: Basic Use of SMART Boards and SMART Notebook
This session will give the participant a general overview of how SMART Boards can be used in everyday lesson plans. It will include an overview of how all the components work together and using SMART Board in the classroom. Participants will learn how to use the basic features of the software to enhance lessons and create engaging presentations.
Session 2: Other Programs with the SMART Board and SMART Notebook
This session will show how to integrate Word, PowerPoint and other software using a variety of methods including linking, importing, screen shots and attachments. Additionally participants will work with the interactive gallery built into SmartNotebook.
Workshop 11: “Intermediate
Smartboard: A follow up workshop, for
Smartboard Users
Presenter: Audrey Coats, Lynnfield Public
Schools
Audience: Teachers with Smart Boards available
to them
Dates: June
28, 29
Description: SMART Boards and computer projection systems are changing how we teach. This technology in conjunction with the internet and dynamic software is a wonderful tool to help all students understand the topics being presented. This 10-hour course is for any teacher using a SMART Board on a regular basis, regardless of what grade or subject they teach. It is assumed that the teacher has had some training and would like more time to practice and share ideas and lessons. Our goal is to gain a higher level of both confidence and proficiency.
You will be building lessons that will be used in your
classroom. Bring a textbook to create a
new lesson or bring existing lessons that you would like to improve. The lessons we create will be shared with
other participants with the hope of creating a learning environment that will
continue after the class ends. Bring a flash drive to collect and share
files for each session.
Session 1: Review of basics ~ SMART Notebook 10.0: This session will focus on using the gallery and the new features of SMART Notebook 10.0. Participants will learn how to enhance lessons, presentations and create interactive classroom activities. If you are already using 10.0, bring a sample lesson with some features that you have discovered. We will spend some time searching for existing lessons and tutorials online.
Participants will spend time using the SMART recorder and discussing how to make this a valuable tool in your class. We will also be inserting videos into our lessons. If you have some video clips that would be applicable, please bring them with you.
Session 2: Linking: Software, Internet, Games: This session will show how to integrate other software into your presentations. We will spend some time searching for internet sites that would enhance our lessons. Bring links to the sites that you already use. The skill of linking is vital in making review games using SMART Notebook.
Mathematics
Workshops
Workshop 12:Preparing
for the Middle School Mathematics MTEL Exam
Location: SEEM Collaborative Classroom, 92
Montvale Street, Stoneham MA
Presenter: Nancy
Nichols
Audience: School Staff Members interested in the July Math MTEL Exam
Dates: Monday June 21 and Thursday June 24
(3-5 PM),
Monday June 28 and Thursday July 1
(9 AM – Noon)
Monday July 5 and Thursday July 8 (9
AM – Noon)
Time: 3:30
– 5:30 PM
Fee: $75 for Member Districts $295 for non-Member Districts
Supplies: MTEL Book available for purchase or loan.
PDP’s: 12 Hours
Description: This program is designed to help candidates prepare for the March, 2009 Middle School Mathematics MTEL exam. The Salem State Collaborative will supply participants with a resource book (loan or purchase) that will be the basis of the instruction. Each session will focus on one of the five content areas with the last session focused on Open Response Questions.
Session 1 Number Sense
Session 2 Patterns and Relations
Session 3 Geometry and Measurement
Session 4 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Session 5 Trigonometry, Calculus and Discrete Mathematics
Session 6 Open Response
Workshop 13: The
Basics of TI-Nspire
Presenter: Steve Ouellette
Audience: Math and Science Teachers interested
in TI-Nspire
Dates: June
28
Description: This one day hands-on workshop is designed to give teachers a basic understanding on how to use the TI-Nspire Handheld. The presenter has helped TI write manuals and activities for many of their products including many activities designed around the TV program Numbers. Participants taking this workshop will be well prepared for many of the workshops at the TI Regional Conference being offered later this week in Reading (see www.salemcollaborative.org for more details.)
Science
Workshops
Workshop 14: Adaptations, Biodiversity and
Cycles: Inquiry Investigations in Environmental Science
Presenter: Sandi
Ryack-Bell, Executive Director and Amy Hoffmaster, Asst Program Director,
Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS, Inc.)
Audience: Middle School Science Teachers
Dates: June
28
Description: Using hands-on, minds-on inquiry investigations we will
explore environmental and life science topics in the middle school
classroom. The workshop will focus on connecting science concepts
including nutrient cycles, adaptations, biodiversity, and geological processes
with science process skills. Explore how to use environmental monitoring
projects, including citizen science projects that give you access to online
databases for use with your students as part of an inquiry-based science
curriculum. Learn about classroom and community/field trip resources available
to you through local MITS partners. Connections to the state frameworks, literacy,
and assessment tools will also be discussed.
Workshop15: Reaching
Your Students through Visual Arts – Part 2
Presenter: Amy
Gordon
Visual Arts and Special Education Consultant
The Monarch School of New England
Audience: Grades K-12 Art and Special
Education Teachers
Dates: June
29
Description: The first workshop in this dynamic and interactive series for SPED, art, and elementary teachers was very popular and acclaimed. Whether you missed the first one or not, attending this workshop will open your eyes to the possibilities of creating art projects in class to motivate, inspire, and ultimately reach your students. Amy Gordon has taught art at all levels including Advanced Placement and Studio Art classes in high school, community based programs for young children, and in special education classrooms. In her role at The Monarch School of New England, she used a multi-sensory approach to help students create art despite significant physical and cognitive disabilities.
This workshop will feature many modifications for special
education students, those with physical and/or learning disabilities. Learn to help your students create
beautiful projects using only their own
strokes and marks while exposing them to cross-curricular projects using a multi-sensory
approach. If you want to learn some new
techniques for reaching challenging students and helping them express their
creativity, this workshop will provide you with new techniques and ideas for
doing so. Detailed handouts will
accompany all projects and modifications for each project will be discussed for
age as well as disability. This is an active workshop; it is highly
recommended that attendees wear clothing appropriate for doing art projects.
This workshop will feature completely different activities from the first in the series, but it is not necessary to have attended the first in the series to come to this workshop.
Workshop 16: Safety
in the Laboratory
Presenter: Lab Safety Institute
Audience: Grade 7 -12 Science Teachers
Dates: June
28
Description: LSI's Flagship Course provides an in-depth look at the fundamentals of lab safety and effective lab safety programs. You will learn to identify and manage common laboratory hazards; many of which you may never have considered. Topics include: chemical and biological hazards, electrical, emergency preparedness, fire control, handling glassware, hazardous material storage, hazardous waste management, legal aspects, OSHA Lab Standard, safety program planning, personal protective equipment, and ventilation.
Workshop 17: Scientific Investigations in
Earth System Science
Presenter: Zach
Smith, Educational Consultant
Audience: Grade 7 -12
Dates: June
29
Materials Fee: $10
Description: The Earth system is very dynamic and involves multiple variables that interact with and depend on each other. These variables include aspects of all five spheres of the earth: the atmosphere, the biosphere, the hydrosphere, the lithosphere, and the cryosphere. Come to this workshop to learn how to create and use 3-d quadrats in your classroom from inexpensive, easily-obtainable materials. Help your students create a workable-sized space that encourages and allows collecting observations and data from multiple interactive parts of the Earth system. 3-d quadrats have been placed in Antarctica, the Amazon, the Bahamas, Glacier National Park, and schools in many areas of the US as part of a systems approach to understanding the environment. They are an effective tool to teach your students a variety of data collection methods while getting them to think about the wide range of things to measure in their 1 cubic yard quadrat. Furthermore, you will see how to incorporate other disciplines such as mathematics, literature, art, and social studies into your environmental science programs. All attendees will make and leave with their own 3-d quadrat to use with their own field study.
Workshop 18: Water
Source Analysis: A Field Study
Presenter: Scott
Gordon
Science
Department Chair, Lynnfield High School
Secondary
Science Coordinator, CPMSIE
Audience: Grades 7-12 Science Teachers
Dates: June
29
Description: In this workshop, we will do field studies of local bodies of water. After a brief laboratory introduction to various techniques used in water sampling, we will carpool as a group off site to various water sources. We will use chemical test kits and standard lab equipment to test for a variety of things including dissolved carbon dioxide, hardness, nitrogen, nitrate-phosphate, dissolved oxygen, pH, sulfide, silica, chloride, and alkalinity. In addition to using chemical test kits, we will also be using Vernier Lab Quests. These stand-alone, hand-held lab devices interface with probes and allow for data to be collected, stored, and graphed in the field along with being able to take notes and access many prewritten experimental procedures. Among other things, we will test pH, temperature, and conductivity using these probes. The data from the different sources will be compared and patterns identified. Wear comfortable clothing and shoes and be prepared to spend a fair amount of the day outside. It is highly recommended that you bring water, bug spray, sunscreen, and sunglasses. In the event of rain, we will collect samples and return to the lab for analysis or test previously collected water samples.
Registration Information:
Please register at our website www.salemcollaborative.org, or email the following information to Jim Kearns at registration@salemcollaborative.org. If you have registration questions, please either email (preferred) or
call Jim at 781-771-4860.
Make checks or Purchase Orders payable to CPMSIE and Bring to the First Session
DEADLINE to sign up for the Summer Institute workshops is June 21st.