Offered: 8:30 AM- 4:00 PM on August 8-9 OR August 10-11
Location: TBD
This 2-day session for K-5 teachers will focus on literacy, technology and English Language Learners. It will be “conference-style” professional development where teachers have the opportunity to choose the sessions they would like to attend over the 2-day period. All sessions for this conference will be focused on teachers walking away with finished products and plans that they can use as they start the next school year.
Some of the sessions offered could include:
- Creating formative assessments for Wonders
- Using backwards design to plan a unit in Wonders (3-5)
- Engagement strategies for informational text
- What I do with Week 6?
- Designing and building the conferring notebook for writing
- Planning a unit of study in writing
- Planning a unit of Wonders incorporating instructional technology
- Planning for the first 3 units of small group instruction
- Planning tasks that flow from whole group to small group to independent tasks
- Independent task menu design
- Comprehension/ strategy skill teaching points and poster design
- Designing effective collaborative conversations and sentence frames for each unit
PSU college credit will be available:
- 1 credit for attending the institute
- 1 credit for attending 3-follow up sessions during school year
For more information, please email Julie Walker
