Professional Development Programs and Events
Current Professional Development Seminars, Workshops, and Programs
PLS focuses on teacher learning and professional development. Whether you need a consultant for integrating state initiatives, developing professional learning communities, or many other topics, our goal in professional development is to help you enhance your teaching contribution by showing you strategies and solutions to teach more successfully.
PENNY JADWIN, International Education Consultant
Alabama Career and Technical Education Professional Development Conference - June 12-14, 2012, Birmingham, AL
Teaching through Learning Styles: Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners
In meeting the needs of all learners within the career and tech setting, we must ensure we engage and challenge our students to achieve their highest potential. This presentation will provide classroom teachers with the knowledge, skills, and strategies to meet the diverse needs of all learners.
Sessions: 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. and 2:30 – 3:45 p.m.
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26th Annual High School that Work Staff Development Conference - July 11-14, 2012, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - New Orleans, LA
For more information: www.sreb.org/page/1142/summer conference .html
Sessions: Dates and Time TBD
Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships in Today’s Classrooms
Rigor, Relevance and Relationships are the key components to motivate and engage our students intellectually, emotionally, socially and behaviorally in taking ownership of their own learning. Do your students have the mind-set that supports rigorous thinking? Do you have the methods for developing flexible mindsets in all students? How does growth mindset impact your teaching and students learning? Let’s dig deeper into these questions and their impact on student achievement!
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Above and Beyond: Super Skills for Engaging Learners in Project-Based Learning
Going Above and Beyond! Engaging our learners in project-based learning events provides opportunities for students to develop the 21st Century Skills of critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration. This session will provide a framework for teachers incorporating 21st Century Skills into planning for Project-Based Learning Events that engage learners intellectually, emotionally, socially and behaviorally.
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Teaching through Learning Styles: Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners
In meeting the needs of all learners within the high school setting, whatever the classroom, we must ensure we engage and challenge our students to achieve their potential. This presentation will provide classroom teachers with the knowledge, skills, and strategies in meeting the diverse needs of all learners.
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Teaching through Learning Styles: How to Create Effective Collaborative Groups
In meeting the needs of all learners we must ensure we engage and challenge our students to achieve their potential. This presentation will provide classroom teachers with the knowledge, skills, and strategies to create collaborative groups that will engage and motivate diverse learners. Participants will use student learning style data to create balanced and diverse collaborative groups for classroom activities and project-based units.
Creating Everyday Lessons that Engage and Motivate ALL Learners
Who is working harder in your classroom…you or your students? If it’s you, this session will help you turn that around! Participants will learn how to take every day learning activities and turn them into activities that will engage all learners, have students take on the responsibility for their own learning, as well as ensure student achievement. Join us for some great strategies for creating active and engaging learning activities for all classrooms.
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2012 Teaching and Learning Conference - Gaston County Schools, Gaston College, August 8-9, 2012
Going Beyond the Grades: Increasing Student Motivation and Engagement through Classroom Assessments
Session: 8/8/2012 1:00-4:15
Effective classroom assessments will enable K-12 leaders and educators to increase student achievement by integrating student-involved classroom assessments with day-to-day instruction. Educators will quickly learn to apply these techniques in working with students, aligning formative and summative assessments, setting clear goals linked to Common Core and Essential Standards, and continuously assessing progress toward those goals. This presentation will provide participants the key to success in meeting the needs of all learners.
Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships in Today’s Classrooms
Session: 8/9/2012 8:30-10:00
This presentation will focus on the sophisticated skills and habits of mind students need to be successful in post-secondary education, the world of work, and life in general. This session demonstrates the importance of integrating rigor, relevance, and relationships into classroom practice in order to provide these skills and improve achievement throughout the K-12 system. Educators will develop a deeper understanding of how to create learning experiences that focus on engaging learners’ creativity and innovation through project-based learning events.
Success Reading Strategies across the Curriculum
Session: 8/9/2012 1:00-4:15
Reading Comprehension is crucial to student survival and academic achievement. Most teachers are not equipped with the strategies to help students raise their reading proficiency when reading informational texts. Participants will discover strategies to assist students in reading and understanding informational text, without sacrificing time on their own content standards. In using research-based reading strategies before, during and after reading, teachers will discover that students have a deeper understanding of the text as well as the ability to communicate their understanding through speaking and writing. These strategies ensure that all students have the opportunity to be successful in today’s classrooms.