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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR NONPUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS
Professional Development is unquestionably the single most important factor in promoting academic excellence and improving student outcomes in our schools.
The East Ramapo Central School District is committed to providing high quality training for all our teachers including those in our nonpublic schools.
Through extensive consultation with nonpublic school teachers and administrators, the School District develops annually, a series of high quality training programs addressing a variety of academic topics.
2004-2005 Staff Development Schedule
2005-2006 Staff Development Schedule
Below is a list of this year’s programs. Teachers should contact their school administrator if they wish to attend. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2006-2007 Schedule: Staff Development for Non Public Schools
DATE: September 19th, 2006 TOPIC: Handwriting Without Tears Workshop LOCATION: Gymnasium, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) TIME: 9:30a.m. – 3:30 p.m., FOR: Teachers, grades PreK-2 PRESENTER: Carol Rushing-Carr MOT, OTR/CBCP INFORMATION: Teachers will be taught to Identify developmental stages in writing readiness; Understand how to use multi-sensory, hands-on manipulative to prepare children for handwriting; Teach a correct and effective “crayon grip” and other fine motor skills to children; Teach counting, drawing, shape recognition, and letter/number formations to children at the Pre–K level; Understand the developmental sequences involved in handwriting; Prevent reversals of letters and numbers.
DATE: September 27th, 2006 TOPIC: ESL PROGRAM ORIENTATIONLOCATION: Board Room, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) TIME: 9:00a.m. – 11:00a.m. FOR: Title III Program AdministratorsPRESENTER: Joshua Kamensky M.Ed, Office of Funded Programs, E.R.C.S.D. INFORMATION: This session will outline program compliance in regard to students, staff and staff development, expenditures, program development and District visitations.
DATE: October 31st, 2006 TOPIC: Strategies for Teaching the ADHD Student LOCATION: Board Room, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) TIME: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. FOR: Teachers, grades 1-8 PRESENTER: Rabbi Doniel Frank M.Ed, Educational Counselor, OHEL INFORMATION: Participants at this seminar will: 1. Gain a better understanding of ADHD as a neurobehavioral disorder 2. Learn effective tips and strategies to help facilitate more effective learning and self control for the ADHD student 3. Learn how to collaborate effectively with parents of ADHD students
DATE: November 14 &15 TOPIC: LIPS: Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program™ (TM) LOCATION: Board Room, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) TIME: 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. FOR: Teachers, grades 1-6 PRESENTER: Heather White, M.S. Ed., independent contractor/consultant for MTI INFORMATION: This 14-hour workshop thoroughly explores the concepts of the foundational skills of phonemic awareness through discrimination, blending and segmentation and manipulation of individual sounds in words. Using the highly researched Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program™, teachers explore the explicit and systematic approach of developing and connecting critical early pre-reading skills to current phonics programming. Through dynamic hands-on facilitation, research review and game play, participants will demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the essential role well developed early phonemic awareness skills play in students’ future reading success. This intensive training is appropriate as a powerful preventative supplemental tool for all K-2 regular educators as well as a remedial program for all levels of reading specialists, special educators, and speech pathologists.
DATE: November 28th, 2006 TOPIC: Reading Comprehension Strategies LOCATION: Board Room, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) TIME: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. FOR: Teachers, grades 4-8 *** Limited to 40 participants PRESENTER: Ms. Kristie Breed, LitLife - Literacy Consulting AgencyINFORMATION: In this course, participants will look closely at ways to differentiate teaching methods that give readers of all levels the tools that they need to read and understand a variety of texts. Participants will:· be introduced to the 7 comprehension strategies · take a close look at teaching visualizing to readers · understand the importance of schema and using this thinking to teach readers to make connections to themselves, other texts and the world
DATE: December 6th, 2006 EVENT: Technology Fair LOCATION: Gymnasium, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) INFORMATION: Each year in the fall the East Ramapo Central School District sponsors a technology fair for teachers and administrators from the public and non-public schools. This fair focuses on K-12 materials that can be used to integrate technology into school curriculums. The purpose is to provide educators with the opportunity to preview the materials of different vendors, ask questions, and make more informed decisions in regards to the acquisition of technology related products.
DATE: December 7th, 2006 TOPIC: Shared Reading; A balanced literacy component LOCATION: Board Room, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) TIME: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. FOR: Teachers, grades 1-4 *** Limited to 40 participants PRESENTER: Ms. Maria Boller, LitLife - Literacy Consulting AgencyINFORMATION: This course will introduce participants to an essential component of the balanced literacy framework: shared reading. Shared Reading is an interactive reading experience. Children join in the reading of a big book or other enlarged text as guided by the teacher. In this workshop, participants will examine the texts, tools and teaching methods that will engage readers as they learn to navigate text. Teachers will learn: · methods for shared reading · how to incorporate shared reading in a day of instruction · how to implement reader’s theater · how to use shared reading to develop fluency in readers
DATE: December 12th, 2006 TOPIC: Social Skills Training and Positive Behavioral Supports for Elementary Students LOCATION: Board Room, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) TIME: 9a.m. – 3:30 p.m. FOR: Teachers, grades 1-8PRESENTER: Jed Baker, Ph.D. Director of the Social Skills Training Project INFORMATION: This workshop will address challenging behaviors and social skills of elementary school students. The morning session will focus on learning behavior management strategies (i.e. Relationship building, collaborative problem solving, avoiding power struggles and dealing with meltdowns) and creating a behavior plan for repeat problems. The afternoon session will focus on the components and strategies to teach social skills and ways to motivate students to learn these essential skills.
DATE: January 17th, 2007 TOPIC: Questioning Strategies for Active ThinkingLOCATION: Board Room, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) TIME: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. FOR: Teachers, grades 1-8 *** Limited to 30 participants PRESENTER: T.B.A., Catapult Learning INFORMATION: The workshop will focus on the importance of using a variety of questioning strategies with all types of text. The four strategies that will be presented are a) Bloom’s Taxonomy b) Reciprocal Questioning c) KWL Plus and d) Question Answer Relationship.
DATE: January 31st, 2007 TOPIC: Using Nonfiction to Explore Reading/Writing Connections LOCATION: Board Room, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) TIME: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. FOR: Teachers, grades 1-5 *** Limited to 40 participants PRESENTER: Carrie Redstone, LitLife - Literacy Consulting Agency INFORMATION: In this activity-based workshop, teachers will explore the connection of reading and writing in respect to nonfiction. This workshop will examine: · the best texts to use to teach nonfiction · how to use different forms of nonfiction · magazines, how-to texts, question and answer texts, etc. · how to teach a unit in nonfiction writing
DATE: February 20th, 2007TOPIC: 2nd Annual ERCSD Non-Public School Professional Staff Development Day LOCATION: Ramapo High School TIME: 8:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. FOR: Teachers, grades 1-12 INFORMATION: (Click Here) REGISTRATION FORM: (Click Here)
DATE: March 6th, 2007 TOPIC: Reading and Writing in the Content Areas LOCATION: Board Room, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) TIME: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. FOR: Teachers, grades 4-8 *** Limited to 40 participants PRESENTER: Deb Jurkowitz, LitLife - Literacy Consulting Agency INFORMATION: In this workshop, teachers will explore the reading and writing strategies necessary for success in the general study subjects. This workshop will introduce teachers to: · writing strategies that assist in content area learning · using shared reading in order to introduce students to more complex content area texts
DATE: March 13th, 2007 TOPIC: NYSESLAT Training Workshop LOCATION: Board Room, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) TIME: 10a.m.-12p.m. FOR: All schools that have submitted LEP students on the 2006-2007 BEDS Report (to receive ESL funding next year) are required to comply and administer this exam to those LEP students. PRESENTER: Joshua Kamensky M.Ed, Office of Funded Programs, E.R.C.S.D. INFORMATION: This meeting will present an administrative outline of the issues that pertain to the NYSESLAT. All administrators responsible for organizing Title III testing in their schools must attend.
DATE: April 18th, 2007 EVENT: Book Fair LOCATION: Gymnasium, ERCSD (105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley) INFORMATION: The Fair will focus on K-12 materials and provide educators with an opportunity to preview the materials from different vendors; this will help educators to make a more informed decision when acquiring textbooks, workbooks and other instructional materials.
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