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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
KASC offers a wide variety of PD focused on helping schools reach proficiency. After you choose a topic, call our training staff at (859) 238-2188 to work out scheduling, get connected with a trainer, and handle other arrangements. |
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> PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES
NEW FOR 2008!
Professional learning community is the “buzz phrase” of the day, but there's nothing magical about the words. What matters is focusing on student results and collaborating with the stakeholders to ensure that all students in your school are learning.
This session is organized around the three main components of creating an effective learning community: purpose--ensuring all students learn, process--how to create a team approach to student learning, and focus--aiming toward student results.
Participants will learn how to initiate a continuous cycle of developing common assessments, planning instruction, teaching, analyzing the results in your school. KASC can help you make your professional learning community really meaningful. This session will provide step-by-step directions and practical tools for creating a collaborative community in your school that will ensure not only that students are taught, but that they learn.
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ALL-STAR STRATEGIES
Ever wish you knew the key strategies from all those great education books? All-Star Strategies pulls key strategies from a wide variety of education literature and leaders. Strategies are organized around Robert Marzano's research-based masterpiece, What Works in Schools. Learn what the experts say and what research supports, and how to apply it in your own school.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE & DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE
At least half of each subject score (except writing) on the Kentucky Core Content Test is based on answers to multiple-choice questions. In a few subjects, that percentage is higher. Why? Because multiple-choice is an efficient format for assessing Core Content knowledge. Learn how to write quality multiple-choice questions to assess students' knowledge and inform instruction. This session includes the use of Depth of Knowledge at all levels as an important classroom instruction and assessment tool. Strategies for helping students understand how to effectively answer multiple-choice questions will also be included. Three hours of instruction includes question writing. Additional time can be scheduled for on-site support, unit planning and further question writing, or other identified needs.
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CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT TO CHANGE INSTRUCTION
An important key to success for individual students is the use of regular classroom assessment to guide instruction. This session looks at many different types of regular classroom assessment so teachers can monitor student progress toward academic goals and learn ways to better meet student needs. Tools and resources are provided to help make this process easier and more efficient.
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ON-DEMAND WRITING
Beginning in 2007, On-Demand Writing will count for a larger part of your school's accountability index. The assessment of On-Demand Writing is designed to discover how well a student can apply, in a short writing assignment, the writing strategies and skills she/he has been taught over several years of instruction. Join KASC for a full day of thought-provoking information, strategies, tools, and reflection about your school and classroom writing programs. Become better prepared to instruct the craft of writing in all content area classrooms.
CLOSING THE DISABILITY GAP
Many schools statewide have closed the achievement gap for students with disabilities! We will explore strategies from successful schools and respected research. This workshop includes hands-on learning, step-by-step instruction, and provides teaching strategies that will help all students achieve.
SUCCESS WITH OPEN-RESPONSE
Open-response questions are a powerful learning tool and currently count for 50 percent of KCCT scores. This workshop looks at the Assessment Basics of the KCCT test and works with teachers on understanding and designing open-response, designing scoring guides, and teaching kids how to answer open-response questions. Follow-up includes time in small groups to think through what additional help teachers need to be successful and looking at additional resources your school can use
We also offer other PD options. Contact us to find out more about these sessions:
ANALYZING STUDENT WORK
BRAIN COMPATIBLE TEACHING AND LEARNING
BRAIN RESEARCH AND CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE
THE CHALLENGING LEARNER: TEACHING THE HARD TO REACH
DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION
QUICK BRAIN STRATEGIES
MARZANO'S RESEARCH: INSTRUCTION THAT WORKS
MARZANO'S RESEARCH: SESSIONS ON SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OR NONLINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS
STUDYING YOUR SCORES: CATS RESULTS
CHECK BACK SOON FOR INFORMATION ON OUR 2008 DO-IT-YOURSELF PD SESSIONS!
We're taking the latest research on Professional Learning Communities and making it simple, easy-to-understand, and implement.
Let us help you build capacity in your school and district!