Sessions
Thursday | March 29, 2007 |
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| 1:00 - 4:30 P.M. | In-depth Preconference Sessions |
Friday | March 30 |
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| 9:00 - 10:15 A.M. | Session A |
| 9:00 - 11:45 A.M. | Session AB |
| 10:30 - 11:45 A.M. | Session B |
| 1:45 - 3:00 P.M. | Session C |
Saturday | March 31 |
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| 8:30 - 9:45 A.M. | Session D |
| 8:30 - 11:15 A.M. | Session DE |
| 10:00 - 11:15 A.M. | Session E |
Session A — Friday | March 30
A Sessions are from 9:00 - 10:15 A.M.
A1
Quality Coaching: An Introduction to Best Practices and Procedures
Kim Thoman, Instructional Strategies Coach, Professional Development Exchange
This session provides an introduction to coaching principles and best practices. Participants will examine the coaching process, skillful communication skills, and data-gathering tools. Support providers, consulting teachers, and administrators will learn ways to develop credibility, ways to use essential communication skills to support relationships promoting professional growth, and techniques to gather objective specific data during classroom observations. If you are interested in adding to your effectiveness as an instructional leader and/or providing training to those developing coaching skills, join us for an interactive session sure to provide you with tools you can implement immediately.
Strands: New Session! | Coaching and Mentoring | Good for New Support Providers
A3
Inclusive Interactive Teaching Strategies
Andrew Stetkevich, Staff Development Specialist, Riverside Staff Development Center, Riverside USD
More and more students who learn differently will be placed in general education classes. This presentation will focus on best practices for meeting the needs of ALL students in order to bring up those underperforming subgroups. Strategies for slower learners, second language learners, special education students, children of poverty, and other children who learn differently will be demonstrated and shared along with interactive teaching techniques. Come prepared to participate and activate your power to learn new and exciting ways to engage ALL students in mastering the state standards.
Strands: New Session! | Advanced Content Standards 15–20 | Good for New Support Providers
A7
Creating Resilient Teachers
Ernest Mendes, Author, Keynote Speaker & Consultant, Mendes Training & Consulting
Resilient teachers elicit positive emotions in the classroom to ignite learning; they also process negative emotions that interfere with learning. Resilient teachers establish effective learning environments as well as positive relationships with students and all school site personnel. They read emotional states in others for proactive classroom management, accurate anticipation of student learning challenges, and successful collaborative processes with colleagues and administrators. Learn how all this is possible through an emotional intelligence model.
Strands: New Session! | BTSA/PAR Basics
A9
Teacher Performance Assessment or TPA: What is it? What does it have to do with BTSA?
Elizabeth Ellsworth, CTC Lead Assessor, Adjunct Faculty Concordia University, Encore Education Enterprises
As of July 1, 2008, all entering teacher candidates must successfully complete either the state’s TPA process or an alternative approved assessment at their university. New teachers are increasingly entering BTSA with a greater knowledge base as a result of successful TPA completion. There are four TPAs, each designed to measure particular Teacher Performance Expectations (TPE). At this session you will learn the correlation between the standards of TPE, TPA, and CSTP. We will then focus on ways BTSA can build on the TPA process and address the criticism of redundancy—the “been there, done that” complaint.
Strands: New Session! | BTSA/PAR Basics
