Traveling to off-site professional development workshops can be fun
and educational, providing attendees opportunities to visit
important cultural sites and gather new materials to take back to
their schools.
It can
also be quite expensive. Can you imagine purchasing air fare,
sleeping rooms, meals and taxi fare for your entire faculty? Reduce
your costs literally by thousands of dollars by bringing the
workshop to your campus and/or district. For approximately
$70/person/day (for 50 people) you can provide the same quality
professional development to your entire staff. (The $70/day
includes one consultant at a rate of $3,500/day. This does not
include travel expenses for the consultants or materials.
Some of
our consultants have higher rates, but most of them can come to you
for $3,500/day. This rate applies to professional development
taking place in the continental United States only. For Alaska,
Hawaii or
International please contact us for rates.
Other
benefits of on-site workshops: the entire faculty receives the
information first-hand; local materials and resources are available
to the participants which means more in-depth planning; faculty has
a chance to plan together and get to know each other better -
something most teachers just do not have time to do. This is not
just a nice thing, it's vitally important to building community, and
therefore, relevant, rigorous curriculum.
Whether
it's one workshop or a complete
Annual
Plan, 21st Century Schools can bring it to you. Choose from one
of our regular workshops, or let us custom-design one for you.
Professional Development Topics
Curriculum Design
- Our curriculum design workshop,
Designing the 21st Century Classroom,
incorporates and addresses:
1. Alignment to State and National Standards
2. Multimedia and Technology - Design and delivery of
curriculum via multimedia and technology
3. Multiple Literacies required in the 21st century - from
cyberliteracy to visual literacy, aural literacy, financial
literacy, etc.
4. Classroom Strategies which support a 21st century curriculum
5. Brain-based research
6. Multiple Intelligences
7. Differentiated Instruction
8. Project-based Learning
9. Problem-based Learning
10. Interdisciplinary, Integrated, Thematic unit design
11. Critical Reading Strategies
12. Media Literacy - accessing, analyzing, critiquing and
creating products in a variety of media.
13. Classroom Climate
14. Physical Environment
14. High Expectations
15. Emotional Climate
16. Cooperative and Collaborative Grouping
17. Global Classroom - how to take your classroom global, with
or without the Internet
18. Service Learning projects
19. Student Motivation
20. Parental and Community Involvement - authentic involvement,
truly contributing to the curriculum and instruction the
learning process - not the "please come to the school and run
off these papers for me, or shelve these books, or cut out these
items." True, highly motivated and valuable participation.
21. Themes - what kind of themes you can select, and how to
incorporate everything, taking learning to greater levels.
Other Topics We Offer - Other topics our
experts can bring include:
1. Innovation and
Entrepreneurship for K-12
1.
Media Literacy
2. Web 2.0 Tools
3. Greening the
Curriculum and Greening the School District
4. School
Scheduling
5. Specializing High Schools, particular thematic and
technology/career high schools
6. Video Production in the Classroom
7. Multimedia Production in the Classroom
8. Service Learning - what I regard as the ultimate 21st
century curriculum
9. School Design - literally the architecture/building for 21st
century schools
10. Environmental Education, or Ecoliteracy
11. Visual Literacy
12. Financial Literacy
13. Multicultural Education
14. Character Education
15. Authentic Assessment, or Performance Assessment
16. Constructivism
17. Emotional Literacy
18. Parental and Community Participation
19. Finding, Obtaining and Using Technology
Multi-District Conferences
Let our
talented and experienced team of consultants plan, organize and
deliver a multi-district educational conference for you. By teaming
with one or more other districts (or campuses), you can cut
professional development expenses dramatically. All we need is the
general theme of your conference, then we will discuss with you the
development of the strands which you wish to offer the attendees.
Based on an assessment of your district's needs we will organize the
perfect educational conference - everything from coffee and pastries
to the session evaluation forms!
Sharing expenses for a professional development event of this nature
can even result in putting money into your pocket as you charge
attendance fees to educators from other school districts. We also
will look into alternative sources of funding for you.
Educate the
Educator
In this
scenario, consultants from 21st Century Schools will come to your
district and work with a special team of people selected from each
campus and the central office. We will then conduct intensive
training which will enable these specialists to conduct the
professional staff development sessions for the rest of the staff in
your district. This is not only extremely cost effective in terms of
dollars, but in terms of increased productivity, efficiency and
morale. A spirit of teamwork and collaboration in creating needed
growth and change for your staff is priceless.
Curriculum
Design
Consultants at 21st Century Schools are here to assist you in
designing and developing curriculum for your district and campuses.
We will work with teachers, administrators and parents as you design
and align your district/campus curriculum - vertically, horizontally
and globally - to meet the needs of your students for the new
millennium.
Vertical Alignment - addressing the flow of the curriculum in a
PreK-12 perspective.
Horizontal Alignment - addressing the flow of the curriculum across
disciplines within grade levels.
Globally Balanced - aligning the curriculum into a meaningful and
complete whole which not only meets state and national standards,
but is connected to the community as our society undergoes rapid
changes due to the phenomena of technology, media and globalization
in all aspects of life.