Staff Development Available In-District (Classified by Topic)

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All continuing education courses and professional development workshops are approved for one (1) semester hour from Chapman University. Extra work will be required beyond the day-long workshop to take advantage of this opportunity.

The Art and Science of Teaching

Getting Into Gifted – Stretching the Minds of all Students (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
Raise the bar for all students! This one day teacher workshop on gifted strategies will offer opportunities to learn and participate in research-based gifted strategies. Covered will be differentiation of these strategies, the Socratic Method, use of the Multiple Intelligences, and more. Participants will leave with resources they can use immediately with their students.

Maintaining Creativity while Increasing Student Achievement (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This one-day teacher staff development workshop provides innovative strategies for creatively raising student achievement. In an age of accountability, much of what used to be referred to as ‘creative license’ has been stripped away. Find new ways to make teaching fun again, all the while helping your students to succeed!

Strategic Teaching: Reaching Every Student, Every Time (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This one-day teacher continuing education workshop provides a blend of the research of Robert Marzano, brain research, Harold Bloom (Bloom’s Taxonomy) and the wisdom of Madeline Hunter (Effective Elements of Instruction) to teach you every step necessary to be successful with your students and raise student achievement.

Up, Down, and All Around: Differentiating Existing Grade Level Materials to Meet the Needs of All of Your Students (7.5 or 15 Hours)
This one-day staff development workshop on Differentiated Instruction gives you the tools you need to teach every student in your class with the materials you already have. Invaluable information and strategies for today’s diverse classrooms.

Classroom Management

Manage THIS! Classroom Management Strategies that Really, REALLY Work (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This one-day workshop on Classroom Management will help teachers manage their classrooms so that they can maximize time-on-task for their students. Includes management strategies that have been shown to be successful with students from diverse backgrounds.

Managing the Cooperative Learning Classroom (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
Want to do more cooperative learning, but struggle with maintaining control of the class during your activities? Learn tips and tricks for keeping your sanity while managing your activities. You’ll walk away from this teacher professional development course with knowing how to group your students for different activities, new cooperative learning strategies, and foolproof assessment ideas. Students crave movement, and teachers want to feel successful during their workday. This workshop helps everyone win!

Staying Positive: Managing Challenging Behaviors in the Mainstream Classroom (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This teacher staff development course focuses on 4 common diagnosed disorders found in classrooms today. Topics include: Examining the characteristics of each disorder and what it “looks like” in the mainstream classroom; understanding the legal rights and responsibilities of student, teachers and school; reflecting on personal teaching style as it relates to student behavior outcomes and establishing a positive relationship with parents/families.

English Language Learners

Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners (In Arizona, called Structured English Immersion (SEI) Training):
“Around the World in 15 Hours” (Provisional SEI 15 clock hours)
“Around the World in 45 Hours” (Augmented Provisional 45 clock hours)
“From Many Nations to One” (Completion 45 clock hours)
These two-, four-, or six-day teacher professional development workshops include English Language Learner teacher training to help turn the language development classroom into a language acquisition powerhouse! Included are background information on language acquisition, cooperative learning techniques to enhance oral and written output, authentic assessment strategies, and so much more! Over 400 glowing testimonials have been received by our company regarding these professional development workshops for teachers. Available for college credit.

Writing Individual Language Learner Plans (ILLPs) and Navigating the Discrete Skills Inventory (DSI) (Arizona) (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This one-day Arizona teacher workshop will give you all of the tools you need to write effective ILLPs for your students. Includes an overview of the Arizona English Language Proficiency Standards, an exact formula for creating ILLPs for each student based on his or her AZELLA scores, help with understanding the Discrete Skills Inventory (DSI), and guided practice to ensure your success once back at your school.

Making Every Moment Count: Succeeding in Your 4-hour SEI Model (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This one-day Arizona staff development course will help you take your English Language Development classroom to the next level. You’ll find lots of specifics about how to manage your groups, ideas for language centers, and strategies to reinforce language learning. Excellent strategies for teaching English Language Learners

Succeeding in Your 4-hour SEI Model (Arizona) (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
Teaching the 4-hour model, but not exactly sure how to reach all of your students? Let us help you! We have a one-day Arizona teacher workshop that will show you exactly how and what to teach to grow your students’ English Acquisition.

Health/Physical Education

Yoga for the Class/room Teacher (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This one-day teacher professional development workshop is designed specifically for the classroom teacher. Pressure to perform often eliminates Physical Education and recess, yet brain research shows how important movement is for student achievement. In this class, learn yoga positions and breathing techniques that will help students diminish stress and regain focus so that they can learn better and more efficiently.

Literacy Instruction

Guided Reading (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
In this one-day teacher literacy workshop, you’ll find out how to assist your students to become independent readers, one step at a time. Expert guidance will be provided on how to approach literacy instruction for students who need more time. You’ll leave with research-based strategies, tools, and ideas for successful implementation of Guided Reading.

Dynamic Reading Comprehension (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This one-day teacher literacy workshop will leave you very prepared to deal with some of the most challenging aspects of helping students with reading comprehension. Learn research-based tips and strategies to boost reading comprehension levels, spurring your students on to success with your content!

WordSmart: Powerful Vocabulary Development for Every Classroom (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This one-day continuing education vocabulary workshop will give your staff great new ideas to enhance the most important area of Language Arts. Research-based, fun, and brimming with exciting activities that transfer immediately into your classroom, this popular training has been presented across the United States.

6+1 Traits Writing (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
This one- or two-day professional development workshop gives participants the opportunity to learn all 6+1 traits, view examples of strong trait use at different grade levels, and assess 6 Traits writing based upon rubrics for each trait. An outstanding set of tools to add to an educator’s toolbox!

STEM Initiative Workshops

Hands-On Math (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
In this Math workshop, participants will learn effective ways to establish a classroom environment that is conducive to teaching/learning hands on math. Additionally strategies for teaching hands-on math through games, investigations and literature connections will be shared, as well as information regarding how children really learn math. Finally, participants will increase their understand of how to use a variety of hands-on manipulatives in the K-6 classroom.

Inquiry-Based Science (7.5 or 15 Clock Hours)
Teaching Science when you aren’t a Scientist – providing your students with experiences that will prepare them for the 21st Century – can be a challenge. This one-day staff development workshop will provide you with strategies on teaching Science as inquiry so that you can then provide your students with the skills they need to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers in their future. Participants will leave with resources they can use immediately with their students.