Friday,
October 23, 2009
Friday,
October 23, 20098:00am
REGISTRATION BEGINS
COFFEE BREAK
Happy 106th
Birthday to ETEA! Discuss
strategies with your colleagues, have
coffee, and plan your professional development day.
8:30am -
9:30am -- Interactive Roundtable
RTI:
RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION—ARE WE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE???
(Presenter:
Rosemary "Pete" Kerr, Intervention Specialist, Greenback School,
Loudon County)
When
a student is identified as having difficulties in school, a team
provides
interventions of increasing intensity to help the child catch up with
the rest
of his or her peers. After interventions have been tried and proven
ineffective, the child may then be referred for additional services.
Response
to intervention is based on discovering what works best for an
individual
student, not what might be the 'best' intervention for everyone.
Additional
methods are tried until students 'respond' to the intervention and
improve
their skills. Come to this interactive Roundtable discussion and learn
about efficient ways to plan for
students who do not respond, or respond at significantly low
rates.
8:30am -
9:30am -- Interactive Roundtable
IS
ONLINE TEACHING AND
LEARNING FOR YOU???
(Presenter:
Ronnie Edmunds, Instructional Technology
Specialist)
Teaching an online
class is exciting! Join the discussion and
learn more about
content, courses and online learning communities of students, teachers,
and
staff who support students in an online environment.
Learn more about flexible online curriculum
and tutoring programs. While
teaching
an online course can be exciting, the online teaching environment may
require
teachers to commit significantly more time than they would for a
face-to-face
class. This can lead to frustration
and
disillusionment with the potential of online education.
Come discuss and share strategies and best
practices that help teachers become successful with online teaching.
8:30am - 9:30am --
Interactive Roundtable
SCIENCE ACTIVITIES THAT WORK!
(Presenter:
Andrea Wilson, Educational Consultant)
Turn your
classroom upside down! Come to this session and get ready for
learning
meets fun head-on as we explore the endless possibilities of
"edutainment." Learn more about hands-on science activities that you
can use in your classroom that will ignite student's interest and
attention. Your students will have the
time of their
lives!
8:30am - 9:30am --
Interactive Roundtable
THE
STANDARDS-BASED CLASSROOM
(Presenter: Myra Burton, Education and Training Consultant)
Come
and learn more about the standards-based classroom and the new
Tennessee
standards. Join the discussion that
focuses on new strategies and materials
you can use in your standards-based
classroom.
9:30am – 10:30am KEYNOTE SESSION I
INNOVATION MEETS
EXPECTATIONS: MAKE PARENT-TEACHER
CONFERENCES A MEANINGFUL
EXPERIENCE!
(Presenter: Kim Sullivan, Blount County Schools)
During
this keynote, you will learn about new ideas for making parent-teacher
conferences meaningful and will learn how to increase attendance at
these
conferences.
Come learn more about student-led conferences as
a positive
experience for teachers and students to reach out to the community and
build
relationships with students and
their relatives. Reading/language
arts teachers help students
select work from their classes, assemble a portfolio and learn how to
effectively
communicate their lessons to family members.
Students are motivated by the experience to share their work,
which
reinforces the importance of education.
They also are using metacogniton skills to reflect on
what they
learned
and verbalize it to others.
10:30 am – 11:30am
INNOVATIVE
STRATEGIES TO
IMPROVE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATES
(Presenter: Richard
Allen, New River School)
Come learn more
about new strategies you can use for the large number of students who
enter
high school intending to earn a diploma or earn a diploma and then go
to a
four-year college but fail to reach their goal within four years. Learn more about the promise of some new
approaches to increase graduation rates and close achievement gaps.
10:30am – 11:30am
MATH
STRATEGIES THAT WORK: TRIED AND TRUE
HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
Are you looking for
engaging and motivating ways to introduce math
strategies which increase student achievement in the upper elementary
and
middle school mathematics curriculum? Do you need high interest
math
strategies to serve as powerful models for building motivation in
students who
struggle? Come to this session and get creative ideas that can be
used in
group and independent settings. Join us for a hands-on,
interactive workshop
showcasing some of the most successful, easy, inexpensive and fun
ways
to get your students excited about learning math.
10:30am - 11:30am
LESSON ADAPTATIONS
FOR STRUGGLING READERS
(Presenter:
Anna Miller, Literacy Coach)
This session will
focus on lesson adaptations and effective
classroom strategies to maximize achievement for students who struggle
with
reading. Come to this session and learn how to maximize
instructional
time and motivate students to achieve at higher levels. Anna
Miller is a
Literacy Leader who will address classroom adaptations that create an
enriched
and supportive environment for learning. She will give you
hands-on
examples and reliable strategies that really work!
EARLY CHILDHOOD:
THE ABCs OF LEARNING STRATEGIES
(Presenter: Wendy
Laman, SDE Consultant)
Teaching materials will be
discussed and handouts provided!
This session will include the ABCs of working
with young
children to begin the development of pre-reading and reading skills,
literacy
and phonemic awareness, emergent literacy strategies, and will focus on
literacy models.
11:
30am - 12:30pm – Keynote Session II
LEARNING MEETS FUN: HANDS – ON SCIENCE ACTIVITIES THAT WORK!
(Presenter:
Andrea Wilson, Educational Consultant)
This keynote
will be fun-filled and will provide you with science activities that
will help
you turn your classroom upside down! Come to this session and get
ready
for learning meets fun head-on as we explore the endless possibilities
of
"edutainment." Learn more about hands-on science activities that you
can use in your classroom that will ignite student's interest and
attention. You and your students will
have the time of your lives!
12:30pm - 1:30pm
SHAKE, RATTLE, AND
ROLL: GUIDED
READING TECHNIQUES FOR THE ELEMENTARY GRADES
Come to this
session and get great ideas for guided reading from a classroom teacher
who
uses these strategies with students in a classroom environment. You will leave this session with ideas for
students who struggle in reading. Stop
in and get energized as we explore
exciting ways to teach reading to ALL students!!
12:30pm - 1:30pm
LESSON ADAPTATIONS
FOR STRUGGLING READERS
(Presenter:
Anna Miller, Literacy Coach)
This session will
focus on lesson adaptations and effective
classroom strategies to maximize achievement for students who struggle
with
reading. Come to this session and learn how to maximize
instructional
time and motivate students to achieve at higher levels. Anna
Miller is a
Literacy Leader who will address classroom adaptations that create an
enriched
and supportive environment for learning. She will give you
hands-on
examples and reliable strategies that really work!
12:30pm – 1:30pm --
EARLY
CHILDHOOD: THE
STANDARDS-BASED
CLASSROOM
(Presenter: Wendy Laman, SDE Consultant)
Come
and learn more about the standards-based classroom and the new
Tennessee
standards. Join the discussion that
focuses on new strategies and materials
you can use in your standards-based
classroom.
1:30pm –
2:15pm
WRAP-UP SHARING OF
INFORMATION
FROM SESSIONS: STRATEGIES THAT WORK!