Friday,
October 30, 2009
Friday,
October 30, 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
EARLY
CHILDHOOD AND THE STANDARDS-BASED CLASSROOM
(Presenter:
Wendy Laman, SDE Consultant)
Come
and learn more about the standards-based early childhood classroom
and the
new Tennessee standards. Join the discussion that focuses on new
strategies and materials you can use in your early childhood
standards-based classroom. Join the
conversation and share developmentally appropriate practices in early
childhood
programs.
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???
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.
9:30am – 10:30am
VIOLET BANK: GENERAL
ROBERT E. LEE’s HEADQUARTERS
(Presenter: Dr. David Peterson, Morehead
State University – Morehead, Kentucky)
Violet Bank was General Robert E. Lee's
headquarters for the first six months of the Petersburg campaign in
1864, the
Southern Confederacy's "Last Stand" in its fight to achieve
independence. We will learn about the family that owned this property
and view
slides of the building as it stands today in the heart of an older
subdivision
in Colonial Heights, Virginia. We will look at the defense of
Petersburg and discuss
teaching materials and websites. Handouts will be provided.
9:30am
– 10:30am KEYNOTE SESSION I
DYNAMIC CURRICULUM FOR THE
NEW STANDARDS: WHAT IS IT AND HOW CAN I USE IT?
(Presenter:
Jan Coley, Jefferson County Schools)
Standards-based
classrooms are very different from traditional classrooms. Teachers
follow a
cycle of instruction – planning, teaching, assessing, and re-teaching –
so all
students meet specific, clearly stated and understood, high academic
standards
in each content area. In standards-based classrooms, teachers are
responsible
for teaching, assessing, and, based on assessment results, re-teaching
those
students who do not master the content. To teach in a standards-based
classroom, the teacher must employ a repertoire of methods, use a
variety of
materials, and have the ability to divide the class into small groups
for
appropriate learning activities. Come to this session and
learn
more about how you can get materials for setting up your
standards-based
classroom.
10:30am – 11:30 am
INNOVATIVE
STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATES
(Presenter:
George Ashe, Hardin Valley Academy, Knox County Schools)
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. Hardin Valley Academy is Knox County’s newest
high school, and it utilizes a new educational model. Students can pick
an
interest area and focus studies there. The four learning communities
are health
sciences; law, business and public affairs; liberal arts; and science,
technology, engineering and math.
10:30am -
11:30am
STRATEGIES
AND
ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING READERS
(Presenter:
Susan Roberts, Reading Specialist, Jefferson County Schools)
This session
will
focus on 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.
Susan Roberts is a Reading Specialist 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!
10:30am – 11:30am
MARBLE SPRING: HOME
OF JOHN SEVIER
(Presenter: Dr. David Peterson, Morehead
State University – Morehead, Kentucky
Marble Spring, the home of John Sevier, first
governor of the State of Tennessee, will be the focus of this
presentation. We will look at the home and other buildings and
discuss
this pioneer station that Governor John Sevier bought and built a home
on. Marble Springs is located at the foot of Bays Mountain, five
miles
north of Knoxville, Tennessee. Sevier named it Marble Springs
because of
the numerous springs and marble deposits nearby. The career of
John
Sevier will be discussed and teaching materials and ideas
presented, along
with a handout you can use in your classroom.
10:30am – 11:30am
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.
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.
11:30am - 12:30pm -----
KEYNOTE
SESSION II
RETIREMENT ISSUES/WORKSHOP ON
TCRS RETIREMENT
(Presenter: Terry
Hudgins, Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System--TCRS)
Come to this session and learn about issues
connected to your retirement! If you are a teacher in the early
stages of
your career, come learn more about your retirement benefits provided by
the
State of Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System
(TCRS).
Guidance for employees anticipating retirement will be provided, and
topics
covered will include requirements for retirement, payment plans
available,
eligibility for continuation of medical insurance, and the Medicare
supplement.
Learn how you can become involved in developing plans for
increasing your
retirement benefits.
12:30pm -
1:30pm
STRUGGLING
READERS: NEW RESEARCH-BASED MATERIALS
(Presenter: Susan Elrod, Curriculum and Instruction Coach, Blount County Schools)
Blount
County’s struggling readers are getting a boost from a new
research-based
reading program. Come to this session
and get great ideas for using the Wilson Reading System that literacy
coaches
have implemented. The Wilson Reading
System is a supplemental reading and writing curriculum designed to
teach
phonemic awareness, alphabetic principles, word study, spelling, sight
word
instruction, fluency, vocabulary, oral expressive language development
and
comprehension. This system is used to
target the needs of students who are below grade level in reading. 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
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. Come learn more
about and share developmentally appropriate practices in early
childhood
programs.
12:30pm -
1:30pm -- Interactive Roundtable
IS
ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR YOU???
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.
1:30pm –
2:15pm
WRAP-UP
SHARING OF INFORMATION FROM SESSIONS: STRATEGIES THAT WORK!