Monday, August 5, 2024

Effective Instructional Strategies: Engagement, 8:00 a.m., South Cafe

Engagement is an essential aspect of effective instruction. When teachers focus on engagement strategies, they are providing students with activities to help them pay attention, feel energized, and experience interest and intrigue. Teachers will walk out of this session with research-backed instructional strategies they can immediately put to use.

Effective Instructional Strategies: Comfort, Safety & Order, 9:30 a.m., Choir, BHS S 1705

 
Addressing the basic needs of students (establishing comfort, safety, and order) is foundational to establishing a classroom where students can thrive. Teachers will leave this session with research-backed instructional strategies they can immediately put to use. 

Effective Instructional Strategies: Grouping and Regrouping for Grades K-6, 12:30 p.m., Choir, BHS S 1705 

In this session, K-6 teachers will learn research-backed instructional strategies they can immediately put into practice to effectively manage classrooms where students’ needs are being met through a combination of grouping & regrouping and direct, whole-class instruction. 

Effective Instructional Strategies: Grouping and Regrouping for Grades 7-12 , 2:00 p.m., North Cafe

In this session, 7-12 teachers will learn research-backed instructional strategies they can immediately put into practice to effectively manage classrooms where students’ needs are being met through a combination of grouping & regrouping and direct, whole-class instruction. 

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Effective Instructional Strategies: Engagement, 9:30 a.m., Choir, BHS S 1705

Engagement is an essential aspect of effective instruction. When teachers focus on engagement strategies, they are providing students with activities to help them pay attention, feel energized, and experience interest and intrigue. Teachers will walk out of this session with research-backed instructional strategies they can immediately put to use. 

Effective Instructional Strategies: Comfort, Safety, & Order for Administrators, 12:30 p.m., Choir, BHS S 1705 

This session will provide administrators an overview of proficiency scales, then discuss how teachers should introduce and reinforce the content from district-adopted/created proficiency scales. Administrators will leave this session with not only an understanding of proficiency scale instruction, but with a teacher developmental scale for providing teachers feedback and fueling their continued development. 

Effective Instructional Strategies: Comfort, Safety & Order for Teachers, 2:00 p.m., Choir, BHS S 1705 

This session will provide teachers with an overview of proficiency scales, then address how teachers should introduce and reinforce the content from district-adopted/created proficiency scales. Teachers will leave this session with not only an understanding of proficiency scale instruction, but research-backed instructional strategies they can immediately implement.