Calling all principals, coaches, and teachers! Have you ever felt the spark of new found inspiration after observing a learning experience with kids that you knew you just had to act on?!?! If so, you are in good company. Join us for a productive session that will walk you through start to finish (well, are we ever really finished learning?) of the Building Thinking Classrooms philosophy. This session will focus on the foundations of Building Thinking Classrooms as an instructional strategy and how teachers can implement this framework from day to day within their core math block. We will highlight how this journey moved from an idea to a daily reality embedded within a learning framework that places students as the drivers of achieving high levels of learning. Through rich discourse, knowledge mobility, collaboration, and using "what we know to figure out what we do not yet know" teachers serve as facilitators of the learning and are no longer the sole keeper of all the knowledge within their classroom.
Teachers will receive concrete guidance for materials and preparation needed to get started. Teachers will engage in conversations regarding how to script pieces of our core resource to a thinking task. Participants will hear teacher testimonies and witness the principal-coach-teacher partnership necessary to engage in this work. Teachers will learn how to embed Building Thinking Classrooms as an instructional strategy that engages all learners and that organically enriches their learning.
Join us for a session focused on actionable vocabulary instructional strategies that enhance student learning across all subject areas! During this interactive session, participants will: -Discover effective vocabulary instructional strategies -Increase student engagement, critical thinking, and communication skills through interactive vocabulary activities -Collaborate with fellow educators to integrate vocabulary instruction into your existing lesson plans for two or more subject areas. Enhance your teaching and support student achievement through the power of words in this interactive session!_x000D_Teachers can... Identify and describe three or more effective vocabulary instructional strategies. Integrate vocabulary instruction into their existing lesson plans for two or more subject areas. Increase student engagement and communication skills through interactive vocabulary activities.
This is my 9th year with the Shawnee Mission School District. I have the Kansas Seal of Literacy, a Reading Specialist license, an ELL endorsement, a masters degree from Emporia State University and an undergraduate degree from Kansas State University. I am passionate about unit... Read More →
