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           09/10-140 Read Naturally [A]

Read Naturally combines three research-proven strategies, Teacher Modeling, Repeated Reading, and Progress Monitoring, into one powerful strategy to develop the reading fluency of special education, ELL, Title I and mainstream students.

 

            You will learn…

*The importance of attaining fluency and how fluency directly correlates with comprehension.

*To combine the research-based strategies of teacher modeling, repeated reading, and self-monitoring of progress to significantly improve fluency in developing readers.

*To use detailed procedures to implement the READ NATURALLY strategy.

*To improve your student’s ability to read sight words.

*To individualize instruction in a group situation.

*To motivate developing readers to become excited about reading.

*To improve your student’s ability to read with expression.

*To help students to set goals and take ownership of their learning.

*To use READ NATURALLY strategy as an ongoing assessment and conferencing tool.

*Plus much more.

 

Note: Please indicate on your registration, in the comments section, if you are looking for more information in the Software Edition or Masters Edition.

               

           09/10-142 CHAMPs Classroom Management for Elementary Classroom Teachers [A]

Do you have students………

            talking to much or too loudly or about the wrong things?

            demanding attention?

            doing math when they should be working on science?

            socializing when they should be cleaning up the classroom?

            wandering around the room when they are supposed to be listening to the

            teacher?

            monopolizing classroom discussions?

            disrupting lesson?

If so, join us for a two-day CHAMPs training to establish or solidify your classroom management skills.  CHAMPs is a proactive and positive approach to classroom management that fits well with the school-wide positive behavior support efforts at many schools. 

 

 

 

This course will meet:

 Day 1 (December 9) at the West Main Professional Dev. Center, 1627 West Main Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49006.

Day 2 (January 29) at Kalamazoo RESA Service Center, 1819 East Milham Road, Kalamazoo, MI 49002.

 

           09/10-144 Designing Lessons for Successful Math Instruction K-5 [A]

Days 1-2 How can we structure lessons and common assessments to ensure all students are successful in mathematics? How do we know what is the “right” stuff to teach? This two-day workshop series will focus on planning effective lessons and assessments to improve student success in K-5 mathematics. You will bring your textbooks and curriculum documents and you will leave with at least one lesson (and corresponding assessments) that focus on teaching for understanding. This series provides you with opportunities to carefully analyze corresponding GLCE, to use a model to develop lesson plans that include differing instructional strategies, to develop or select the activities and resources you need to implement your planned lessons, and to select formative and summative assessments to track your students’ progress.

 

Days 3-4 (optional but suggested)

Each grade group (K-1, 2-3, 4-5) will select a mathematical concept on day 1 of the series that we will use as our topic of study for days 3-4. Days 3-4 will be structured like days 1-2 except, now you will be part of a smaller, more focused group that will also analyze MEAP data (when available) to help inform the development of the lesson and corresponding assessments. Registration forms will be available during the February 2 session.

 

 

           09/10-148 How to Prevent Student Bullying, Intimidation and Harassment [A]

Dr

Dr. Marcia McEvoy is a licensed psychologist who has worked in a variety of settings in three states, including public schools, community mental health, a child guidance clinic, and two universities.  She is an expert in the area of violence prevention, including the prevention of youth suicide.  She is the co-author of a book entitled Preventing Youth Suicide: A Handbook for Educators and Human Service Professionals. 

The workshop will include discussion of strategies to prevent bullying, intimidation, harassment, and other forms of violence; how to reach consensus on a definition of violence that will allow staff to intervene with even mild forms of antisocial behavior, and how to develop violence prevention policy for the school handbook.  Staff Action, Student Action, Parent Action, and Consequences for Violence will be discussed.  Participants will also receive sample rules, surveys, and forms related to learning more about the issues; identifying and tracking problems in the school; and working with staff, students, parents and others to address those identified issues. 

 

           09/10-22 Effective Literacy Instruction in the 2nd Grade Classroom [A]
NEW DATES

Does one or more of these things apply to you?

ü  Are you a classroom teacher?

ü  Do you have struggling students,

ü  Do you want to work smarter not harder?

 

Then this workshop is for you! This 3 day workshop will be a comprehensive explanation of how RTI/differentiation work together in the classroom.

 

Teachers will leave this workshop with a deeper understanding of how the following topics apply at the Second Grade level:

·         Using DIBELS/data to plan instruction

·         How RTI/differentiation fit into the classroom

·         Literacy Instruction focused around the 5 Big Ideas

·         Using your core curriculum/basal to meet the needs of your students

·         Structure and management of the language arts block

·         How to use active participation techniques with your students

 

For day one please bring: 1. Fall DIBELS – Histogram and Class List Reports

2. Basal – Teachers Edition Theme 2

 

           09/10-80 Effective Teacher Mentoring

Mentors assigned to first, second, and third year teachers will engage in activities that demonstrate best practice teaching while learning about the role of a mentor.  Using cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, and an array of instructional strategies, facilitator Annette Smitley will explain and model how to best meet the needs of new teachers.  Effective Mentoring will focus on mentor expectations, coaching models, social styles, reflective questioning techniques, and observations. Mentors can expect to walk away with strategies for effective mentoring, logs, questions to guide their coaching, and a myriad of teaching tips, including Spence Rogers´ book titled Teaching Tips. 

 

Workshop Topics: 

·         Definition of a Mentor

·         Role, Expectations, and the Law

·         Coaching Models and Social Styles

·         Reflective Questioning Strategies

  • Observation Cycle:  Pre-conference, Observation, Post-Conference 

 

           09/10-82 CPI: Applied Physical Training [A]

FOR KALAMAZOO COUNTY ONLY

 

This is a refresher training program for participants who have succeeded in the initial Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® training program.

The Applied Physical TrainingSM program helps participants build on the Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® training foundation already in place and provides an opportunity to:

  • Develop a greater understanding of CPI´s Personal Safety TechniquesSM.
  • Problem-solve and strengthen Nonviolent Physical Crisis InterventionSM skills.
  • Receive additional information to address emergency situations.
  • Problem-solve emergency situations.

The Refresher Workbook used contains more than 35 pages of specifically developed content that will enhance learning and provide opportunities for examining issues surrounding physical aggression, including:

  • The critical role of verbal and nonverbal communication.
  • How verbal outbursts may provide brief decreases in physical energy.
  • The concept of the Nonviolent Physical Crisis InterventionSM Continuum.
  • Ways to minimize the risks of physical intervention.
  • Three important reasons and ways to practice.

Participants should dress and be prepared for more physical activity than in previous programs.

 

 

           09/10-87 Improving Student Achievement in Grades 2-3 Mathematics: Working with Fractions [A]
NEW DATES

This three-day workshop series will focus on planning effective lessons to improve student success in working with fractions. You will bring your textbooks and curriculum documents and you will leave with several lessons (and corresponding assessments) that focus on teaching for understanding. There will also be homework between sessions that will require you to develop a portion of a lesson, teach that portion, do a reflection activity related to the lesson, and bring it all back to the next session. This series provides you with opportunities to carefully analyze corresponding GLCE, to use a model to develop lesson plans that include differing instructional strategies, to develop or select the activities and resources you need to implement your planned lessons, and to select formative and summative assessments to track your students’ progress. These three days are packed with teacher-collaboration and hands-on development and exploration.

 

Rationale: Students having a strong background in fractions: what they are, how to represent and compare them, and how to combine them in application helps to ensure they successfully develop proportional and algebraic reasoning in upper grades. However, students typically struggle with key concepts of fractions. Evidence of students’ lack of mastery is found in the Kalamazoo County 2008 MEAP data which shows that students were weakest in working with fractions [and data - see related workshop offering] in grades 2 and 3.

 

           09/10-88 Improving Student Achievement in Grades 4-5 Mathematics: Working with Fractions [A]
NEW DATES

This three-day workshop series will focus on planning effective lessons to improve student success in working with fractions. You will bring your textbooks and curriculum documents and you will leave with several lessons (and corresponding assessments) that focus on teaching for understanding. There will also be homework between sessions that will require you to develop a portion of a lesson, teach that portion, do a reflection activity related to the lesson, and bring it all back to the next session. This series provides you with opportunities to carefully analyze corresponding GLCE, to use a model to develop lesson plans that include differing instructional strategies, to develop or select the activities and resources you need to implement your planned lessons, and to select formative and summative assessments to track your students’ progress. These three days are packed with teacher-collaboration and hands-on development and exploration.

 

Rationale: Students having a strong background in fractions: what they are, how to represent and compare them, and how to combine them in application helps to ensure they successfully develop proportional and algebraic reasoning in upper grades. However, students typically struggle with key concepts of fractions. Evidence of students’ lack of mastery is found in the Kalamazoo County 2008 MEAP data which shows that students were weakest in working with fractions [and data - see related workshop offering] in grades 4 and 5.

 

           09/10-95 Using Data in School Improvement: Getting Started

Designed for School Improvement Chairs and team members who have responsibility for data collection and analysis, this full-day session provides hands-on work with data activities important for the beginning of the year School Improvement process.  Participants will develop:

  • processes and timelines for collecting and analyzing school profile data and school process data
  • graphs and charts for a school data profile
  • a monitoring plan using appropriate data
  • an evaluation plan for assessing implementation and impact of the plan 

Workshop Components Related to School Improvement: 

  • School Data Profile and Data Profile Analysis
  • Process Data Profile and Process Data Analysis
  • School Summary Report and Goal Setting
  • Monitoring and Evaluation Planning for the 2009-10 School Improvement Plan

Participants should bring a laptop with wireless capability and an electronic copy of their building’s 2009-10 School Improvement Plan.

Note:    This is the first in a series of workshops that will guide teams through the use of data for School Improvement.  Tentatively scheduled next in the series will be the February 18 Using SI Data to Set Goals and Develop the Plan, followed by the March 17 School Improvement Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting.  Attendance of prior workshop(s) in this series is NOT required, but separate registration in each workshop IS necessary.  Watch for flyer notification on the subsequent workshops.

 

           Learning to Use the MDE SI Modules

Participants in this workshop will be given an overview of the newly developed Michigan Department of Education School Improvement process. An emphasis will be placed on understanding and using the new electronic template for school improvement planning.  Specific components that will be addressed include: Comprehensive Needs Assessment; Process Indicator reporting (Education YES!, SA, SAR); the School Improvement Framework; best practice research; and the hierarchy of a School Improvement Plan (goal, objective, strategy, activity).  Time will be allowed for participants to begin the development of their plan using the State’s electronic template for School Improvement.  

SB-CEUs pending approval.               
 

COST:  $15 per person (includes handouts and lunch)

 

TO REGISTER  for the Learning to Use the MDE School Improvement Modules, please go to www.sjcisd.org click on “Professional Development”; Click on “online registration” and register utilizing the online Coursewhere system.

If you have any questions, please contact Laura Howe at 269.467.5430 or via email at lhowe@sjcisd.org

 

           WorkKeys Testing and KeyTrain Preparation
JOB FAIR

WORKKEYS / KEY TRAIN

 

WorkKeys Testing

Job skills assessment system measuring real-world skills.

And

KeyTrain Preparation

The Premier Training System for WorkKeys Skills

 is now available at:

 

MI WORKS! EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

 In Kalamazoo                                       

 

Testing site and schedules are as follows:

 

LOCATION: MI WORKS! EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

                            1601 S. BURDICK

                            KALAMAZOO, MI

                            (269) 383-2536 x-110

 

WorkKeys -Weekly Testing:

When:       FRIDAY – Time: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm

Cost:         $20.00 per test, Math, Reading, Writing & more.

 

Key Train -Weekly Open Labs for Test Preparation:

When:       TUESDAY           - Time: 1:00 pm -  4:00 pm

                  WEDNESDAY     - Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Cost:         $25.00 per two week training block

 

Methods of payment are: Money orders or Bank checks only payable to:

Youth Opportunities Unlimited.  Sorry no cash accepted!

 

Please call (269) 383-2536 ext-110 with any questions

or to schedule a time slot.  


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Need Help Linda Bussema by email or by phone at (269) 385- 1577

by email or by phone at (269) 385-1577

 

 

Kalamazoo RESA does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, height, weight, marital status, handicap, disability, or limited English proficiency in any of its programs or activities.

 

Kalamazoo RESA also believes that all individuals should have the opportunity to participate in its scheduled events and activities. If you require a special accommodation to do so, please contact Linda Bussema (269-385-1577) for assistance.

 



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