Building a Better Brain… is the theme for this summer’s TTI, June 20-24th. Information is available on our website.
Teach to many different learning styles so the potential of every learner is tapped. Use alternative forms of assessment and instruction to provide avenues for those who learn differently.
We hope to see you there!
We have posted information on Opportunity Schools’ 2010 Teacher Training Institute entitled, The Receptive Classroom on our website. The training will be held from June 21st – 25th. We are very excited to have Ron Leaf from Autism Partnership as our kickoff Keynote Speaker. Please visit our site, and view the brochures for more information. Or you can give Janice a call at 714-761-5062.
Hope to see you there.
We are happy to announce a complete success for this summer’s Teacher Training Institute. We want to again thank our presenters; Marcia Fries, Gina Lems-Tardif, Dan Gurney, Glenda McHale, Diana Jones, Jeanne Ruiz, and Katie Kent. They all provided us with a wealth of information and our “schema” will never be the same! (inside joke for those of you who weren’t there)
Please take a moment to enjoy photos from the training on our TTI-2009 page… though pictures fail to capture the energy of the presenters and the great discussion that was had in each session.
We’d like to leave you with just a handful of the many comments from the teachers that attended. Hope to see you next year!
- Their excitement was contagious!
- …very applicable…
- I loved this seminar. The Daily 5, yea!!!
- The training really was so very relevant and important for each and every teacher.
- Wonderful information… great ideas.
- The presenters were awesome!
- Usually I dread conferences or trainings because they are boring, but this one was so great because it was so interactive and very hands on!
- I appreciate making the visual materials during the workshop. They will be put to good use right away!
You may be interested to check out this WestEd webinar online on May 21st from 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. The topic is: Math Pathways & Pitfalls: Jump-Starting Effective and Equitable Instruction:
In this webinar, Carne Clarke and Alma Ramírez, Senior Research Associates at WestEd and developers of MPP, will identify several powerful strategies that all teachers can apply to their mathematics lessons, regardless of their adopted curriculum. Clarke and Ramiréz will provide an overview of the MPP research foundation and give examples of how these strategies boost learning in the MPP Intervention Curriculum.
You can sign up for the webinar by clicking on the topic title above and following the instructions on their website. We’ll be watching… hope to “see” you there. And don’t forget to drop back by here to share your thoughts on the presentation. If you can’t make it live, then check back at their archives to watch it later.
–Thanks to Gayle for the tip!
If you have time you may wish to watch this video of Nanci Bell delivering a lecture at the M.I.N.D. Institute about the nature of reading difficulties. It is not training per se, but rather a discussion about the research behind reading problems and the intervention techniques that are being used to reach these students.
Opportunity Schools uses Lindamood-Bell’s research-based intervention as part of our program’s curricula, so Nanci’s lecture may be especially interesting to our parents and teachers alike. It is a little over an hour long, so be prepared… it’s academic, but well worth the watch.
