Target Audience:1st, 2nd, & 3rd year teachers

During this session new teachers will be grouped within their grade level/subject area/specialty area to share and collaborate with other new teachers to develop a plan for future success. The session will encourage sharing and collaboration for success and future plans and improvements. Please bring a copy of your classroom norms/guidelines and procedures that you currently use with your students.

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd & 3rd year teachers

Paricipants will create a vision of effective heterogeneous school communities through differentiated instruction. Learn how teachers in an academically diverse classroom can address student differences in readiness, interest, and learning profile in order to provide a genuine challenge for each learner.

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd & 3rd year teachers

The purpose of this session is to acquaint English language arts teaches with the design of the ELA MMEassessment. A review of the released test form will give teachers concrete examples of assessment items. Sample of student responses, scoring guides, and annotations on scoring will be made available to participants.

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd and 3rd year teachers

Learn about emotional literacy using a framework that focuses on social and academic competency. Explore the biology of learning and discuss how emotion is the gatekeeper to performance. Learn strategies for fostering the development of emotional literacy in the classroom.

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd and 3rd year teachers

The teacher-student relationship is a critical aspect to students´ success in the secondary level classroom. Much research and development has gone into tracking student achievement data and comparing student performance to state standards and national norms. However, successful classroom teachers recognize that students are most concerned with being embarrassed and fearing failure. Observe for a moment a large group of students in a school setting and it is easy to see that their acceptance by peers far outweighs any letter grade from a teacher.

This session focuses on the need for teachers to manage the interpersonal climate of their classrooms as much as all other aspects of their teaching. Student learning is most productive when teachers focus on relationships and not procedures.

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd & 3rd year teachers

The purpose of this session is to acquaint secondary mathematics teachers with the design of the Michigan Merit Exam. Items from the ACT Mathematics, ACT Science, Work-Keys Applied Mathematics, and Michigan Mathematics (HSCEs) will be discussed. The focus will be on the goal of the classroom teacher to create assessments that work together; formative (classroom), benchmark (district), and summative (state).

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd and 3rd year teachers

This session will focus on student motivation. The participants will have a better understanding of why it is important to connect with their students and how this feeling of connectedness improves relationships and motivates students.

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year teachers

In Charlotte Danielson´s Book, Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching, she outlines measures related to quality teaching organized into four domains, each with several components. Conversations on Professional Responsibilities, concerned with the teacher´s knowledge of reflecting on his/her teaching and fostering of relationships with colleagues, parents, and agencies in the larger community, will spotlight the session. The Macomb Caounty Outstanding Teacher of the Year Professional Responsibilities Rubric will be discussed.

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd, & 3rd year teachers

You got the job! Now it is time to develop a positive rapport with parents and community members. Learn more about public relations skills to promote a positive image of you, your classroom and your instructional style.

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Year Teachers

- A valuable tool for working with economically disadvantaged students & their families
- Key points of Dr. Ruby Payne’s Research
- Learn the hidden rules of economic class
- Assess student resources
- Build relationships of mutual respect
- Develop discipline strategies that teach new behaviors

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Year Teachers

The purpose of this session is to acquaint science teachers with the design of the science MEAP assessment. A review of the released test form will give teachers concrete examples of assessment items. Samples of student responses, scoring guides, and annotations on scoring will be made available to participants.

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year teachers

College prepares the beginning teacher for many things regarding students. Seldom do these schools prepare the new teacher about how to work with Para Professionals. These support staff are a valuable addition to the classroom if used to their best potential. Otherwise, they can be one more person to manage. Supervision of staff can be troublesome for the new teacher. In this session we will discuss building a working relationship, how to delegate, what to delegate and what to manage yourself. We will also spend time discussing how to deal with conflict between staff, and addressing philosophical differences between teachers and para-professionals.

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Target Audience:1st, 2nd, & 3rd year teachers

The documentation of your professionalism will be essential as you move through your first years of teaching. During this session we will discuss updating your portfolio, applying for your teaching certificate renewal. This session will give you information to prepare for opportunities, meet certification deadlines, and explore continued career opportunities in education.

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd & 3rd year teachers

School Improvement (SI) is all about impacting student learning in the classroom. This session will broaden a teacher´s awareness of SI by exposing them to School Improvement Thinking Maps. Teachers will be invited to examine the MDE´s, School Improvement process and how their decisions, day-to-day, impact the focus, SI goals, and strategies selected that will make a difference in student achievement at their school. This is an opportunity for new teachers to engage in the SI process in a user friendly way.

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Target Audience: 1st, 2nd, & 3rd year teachers

Participants will use their school and grade level *MEAP scores to identify areas of strength and development. By using the GLCE´s, teachers can provide powerful instructional strategies to improve students´ reading and writing.

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Understanding the ELA Using the Michigan Curriculum Framework

Target Audience: 1st, 2nd & 3rd year teachers

When content, instruction, and local and state assessments are aligned student achievement increases. Participants will understand the Michigan Curriculum Framework English language arts standards and benchmarks and best practice instructional strategies for all learners.

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Understanding Math Using the Michigan Curriculum Framework

Target Audience: 1st, 2nd & 3rd year teachers

When content, instruction, and local and state assessments are aligned student achievement increases. Participants will understand the Michigan Curriculum Framework Mathematics Standards and Benchmarks and best practice instructional strategies for all learners.

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Understanding Math Using the Michigan Merit Curriculum

Target Audience: 1st, 2nd & 3rd year teachers

When content, instruction, and local and state assessments are aligned student achievement increases. Participants will develop engaging activities for their students around the Michigan High School Content Expectations for Mathematics and look at research that support Best Practice.

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Target Audience:1st, 2nd, & 3rd year teachers

When content, instruction, and local and state assessments are aligned student achievement increases. Participants will understand the Michigan Curriculum Framework social studies standards and benchmarks and best practice instructional strategies for all learners.

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The MISD will provide, upon request with advance notice, appropriate auxiliary aids and services as necessary to afford a qualified individual with a disability equal opportunity to participate in the services, programs and activities conducted by the district. For information regarding workshops or online registration please contact Lynn Brown at 586-228-3492.