| BrainConnection to Education Forum |
|
|
Contact
|
|
|
|
300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 500
Oakland, California 94612-2040
Phone: 888-665-9707
Email: BCInfo@BrainConnection.com
Website: http://www.brainconnection.com
|
|
|
Description
Provides strategies from leading
educators who are applying research into how the brain learns directly to the classroom,
information and demonstrations of tools that help children make rapid gains in language
and reading skills, and insights into how brain research can be used to enhance learning
and academic achievement. Activities include informative general sessions, interactive
workshops and demonstrations, and links to resources that can be used in classrooms.
|
| Chapter I H.O.T.S. (Higher Order
Thinking Skills) ^ |
|
|
Contact
|
|
|
|
Christi Estrada or Dr. Stanley Pogrow
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: 602-621-1305
|
|
|
|
Description
The CHAPTER I H.O.T.S. replaces
traditional drill and practice activities and content instruction in compensatory programs
with thinking activities designed to generate the gains in basic skills expected from
Chapter I programs while improving students’ social confidence. The program is
conducted in a computer lab with a detailed curriculum and a teacher trained in Socratic
dialogue techniques. A one-week workshop and computer equipment are required.
|
| Classroom Instruction that Works |
|
|
Contact
|
|
|
Barbara Clark, MCREL (Mid-Continent Regional Educational
Laboratory)
Phone: 303-632-5624
Website: http://www.mcrel.org/resources/services/
academies/
|
|
|
Description
This workshop focuses on the
nine instructional strategies that have the highest probability of enhancing student
achievement for all students in all subject areas at all grade levels. The nine categories
of instructional practices will be presented and linked with teaching specific types of
knowledge such as vocabulary terms, details and generalizations. A model for planning a
unit of instruction that incorporates the instructional strategies will be provided.
|
| Confratute |
|
|
Contact
|
2001 Information |
|
|
JoAnn Easton, University of Connecticut
2131 Hillside Road Unit 3007
Storrs, CT 06269-3007
Phone: 860-486-4826
Fax: 860-486-2900
website
|
Dates: July 9-20, 2001
Place: University of Connecticut |
|
|
Description
A two-week institute focusing on
differentiation of instruction and enrichment learning and teaching. Confratute believes
that all students can benefit from high-end learning opportunities; that learning is
maximized when each student's abilities, interests, and learning styles are considered;
and that educators accommodate these differences in a variety of settings.
|
| Contemporary Approaches to Creative
Problem Solving Workshop |
|
|
Contact
|
2000 and 2001 Information |
|
|
Center for Creative Learning, Inc.
P.O. Box 14100 NE Plaza
Sarasota, FL 34278-4100
Phone: 941-351-8862
Fax: 941-351-9061
www.creativelearning.com
|
Dates: July 19-21, 2000, January
25-27, 2001
Place: Sarasota, FL |
|
|
Description
This workshop helps participants
to learn and apply the most up-to-date, research-based Creative Problem Solving (CPS)
tools and resources. The workshop involves three days of high-intensity instruction. It
includes assessment of partcipant’s creative style, instruction in CPS methods and
tools, and structured individual and small group CPS practice.
|
| Course In Creativity: Six Thinking Hats
& Lateral Thinking |
|
|
Contact
|
2001 Information |
|
|
Phone: 800-278-1292
Website: http://resourcesunlimited.com/
innovation.asp
|
Dates: October 15-17, 2001
Place: New Orleans, LA |
|
|
Description
From Edward de Bono’s, The
Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking. During this three day workshop participants learn
to: develop their own creative thinking and bring the thinking of others into a sharp
focus, create new and practical ideas, constructively challenge their organization's
current thinking, find and build on the concept behind one idea to create even more ideas,
and turn ideas into usable, practical forms.
|
| Dimensions of Learning Basic Training |
|
|
Contact
|
|
|
Barbara Clark, MCREL (Mid-Continent Regional Educational
Laboratory)
Phone: 303-632-5624
Website: http://www.mcrel.org/resources/services/
academies/
|
|
|
Description
Participants explore each of the
five Dimensions of Learning, learn to use the Dimensions of Learning model in the
classroom, and practice using instructional strategies as a focus for planning curriculum,
instruction, and assessment.
|
| Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound * |
|
|
Contact
|
|
|
|
Meg Campbell
122 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-576-1260
Email: meg_campbell@elob.org
Website:
www.elob.org
|
|
|
|
Description
School reform program that
incorporates extensive content-based staff development. Students’ educational
experiences revolve around expeditions – long-term, in-depth studies of a topic or
theme that involve field work, service, and a cumulative final project. Staff development
includes a 5 day summer institute and on-site professional development.
|
| International Baccalaureate Program |
|
|
Contact
|
|
|
|
Bradley W. Richardson, Regional Director
475 Riverside Drive, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10115
Phone: 212-696-4464
Fax: 212-889-9242
Email: ibna@ibo.org
Website:
www.ibo.org
|
|
|
|
Description
Through comprehensive and
balanced curricula coupled with challenging assessments, the IB program aims to assist
schools in their endeavors to develop the individual talents of young people and teach
them to relate the experience of the classroom to the realities of the world outside.
Beyond intellectual rigor and high academic standards, strong emphasis is placed on the
ideals of international understanding and responsible citizenship.
|
| The Media and American Democracy |
|
|
Contact
|
2001 Information |
|
|
Harvard Graduate School of Education
14 Story Street, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 800-545-1849
Fax: 617-496-8065
Website:
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/
~ppe/
|
Dates: July 22-28, 2001
Place: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
|
|
Description
Participants develop curricula while learning
about the interaction between the media and the American democratic process. This is most
appropriate for secondary school teachers of history, social studies, English, journalism,
and humanities.
|
| National Academy Training for Trainers:
Teaching Critical Thinking Strategies to Colleagues |
|
|
Contact
|
2001 Information |
|
|
Phone: 800-833-3645
www.criticalthinking.org.
|
Dates: July 15-19, 2001
Place: Sonoma State U., Rohnert Park, CA |
|
|
Description
A five day, interactive workshop
for educators and administrators who seek to mentor others in responding to students’
needs to self-educate, to reason deeply, to respond to change, and to understand the
demands of fairmindedness, empathy, and integrity. Participants learn how to utilize
assessment to drive instructional improvement and how to build long-term staff
development.
|
| Project Based Learning |
|
|
Contact
|
|
|
|
Buck Institute for Education
Phone: 415-883-0122
Email: paul@bie.org
Website: http://www.bie.org
|
|
|
|
Description
A 2-day workshop for middle and
high school teachers who want to learn how to use project based learning in their
classrooms. The workshop covers the strategy for conducting a student-project: where to
begin, how to coach students through a project, and how to assess student products.
Workshop participants practice teaching a unit by using the examples described in the
Institute's Project Based Learning Handbook.
|
| Project Success Enrichment * |
|
|
Contact
|
|
|
|
Carolyn Bronson
Creative Child Concepts
P.O. Box 22447
Seattle, WA 98122
Phone: 206-325-5418
Email: carolynbronson@worldnet.att.net
|
|
|
Description
Teachers learn to incorporate
cooperative learning, hands-on activities, problem solving, demonstrations, questioning
strategies, and critical thinking processes into the classroom. Teachers are helped to
accommodate a variety of learning styles and levels of learners by adjusting curriculum
and student projects to address differences among their students.
|
| Project Zero Classroom |
|
|
Contact
|
2001 Information |
|
|
Harvard Graduate School of Education
14 Story Street, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 800-545-1849
Fax: 617-496-8065
Website:
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/
~ppe/
|
Dates: July 28 -August 3, 2001
Place: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
|
|
Description
Designed to help K-12 educators
shape their own classrooms and instructional materials to help students develop deep
conceptual understanding that can be applied in diverse situations. Participants examine:
1) teaching for understanding, 2) multiple intelligences, 3) the thinking classroom, 4)
assessment, 5) learning through the arts. Participants encouraged to attend in teams.
|
| QUILT (Questioning and Understanding to
Improve Learning and Thinking) Training |
|
|
Contact
|
2001 Information |
|
|
AEL, QUILT Program
P.O. Box 1348
Charleston, WV 25325-1348
Website:
http://www.ael.org/rel/quilt/
meeting.htm
|
Dates: June 17-22, 2001
Place: Lexington, KY |
|
|
Description
With QUILT, the classroom
environment becomes more active, more student-centered, more constructivist, more
inquiry-based, and more meta-cognitive. The training-for-trainers approach helps school
districts prepare local teachers who then train others in their region. Typically, a local
school team (two teachers and an administrator) attends this week long training where they
learn how to facilitate QUILT with their own faculty.
|
| Success Enrichment Project ^ |
|
|
Contact
|
|
|
|
Carolyn Gaab-Bronson
Creative Child Concepts
P.O. Box 22447
Seattle, WA 98122-0447
Phone: 206-325-5418
|
|
|
|
Description
Special enrichment activities
are provided for students in grades 2-8 with exceptionally high ability in the areas of
language arts. This is a complete, comprehensive curriculum that includes sequential
activities--moving students from simple to complex concepts. The program can be used at
any grade level, with students of all learning styles, abilities, and cultural
backgrounds. Implementation requires Level I 2-day inservice with follow-up.
|
| Thinking with Standards: Preparing for
the Future |
|
|
Contact
|
|
|
|
Center for Creative Learning, Inc.
P.O. Box 14100 NE Plaza
Sarasota, FL 34278-4100
Phone: 941-351-8862
Fax: 941-351-9061
Website:
www.creativelearning.com
|
|
|
|
Description
This project involves becoming a
field test site for materials that integrate critical thinking skills with state and
district standards. Includes a 5 hour workshop for up to 50 participants from a school
district and 50 copies of all materials with a licensing agreement for free duplication of
materials.
|
| Understanding by Design Academy |
|
|
Contact
|
2001 Information |
|
|
Phone: 800-933-ASCD
Website:
www.ascd.org
|
Dates: July 23-27, 2001
Place: Seattle, WA |
|
|
Description
A workshop designed to help
educators promote student understanding over just passing tests. Participants introduced
to a K-12 framework that ensures that all aspects of the curriculum, instruction, and
assessments are focused on helping students attain understanding. Participants are
strongly encouraged to bring a team of educators from their school or district.
|
