Professional Staff Development

 

Professional Development Topics

Curriculum Design -  Our curriculum design workshop, Designing the 21st Century Classroom, incorporates and addresses:

  • Alignment to State and National Standards

  • Multimedia and Technology - Design and delivery of curriculum via multimedia and technology

  • Multiple Literacies required in the 21st century - from cyberliteracy to visual literacy, aural literacy, financial literacy, etc.

  • Classroom Strategies which support a 21st century curriculum

  • Brain-based research

  • Multiple Intelligences

  • Differentiated Instruction

  • Project-based Learning

  • Problem-based Learning

  • Interdisciplinary, Integrated, Thematic unit design

  • Critical Reading Strategies

  • Media Literacy - accessing, analyzing, critiquing and creating products in a variety of media.

  • Classroom Climate

  • Physical Environment

  • High Expectations

  • Emotional Climate

  • Cooperative and Collaborative Grouping

  • Global Classroom - how to take your classroom global, with or without the Internet

  • Service Learning projects

  • Student Motivation

  • 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.

  • 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:
 

  • Smaller Learning Communities

  • Specializing High Schools, particular thematic and technology/career high schools

  • School Scheduling

  • Video Production in the Classroom

  • Multimedia Production in the Classroom

  • Service Learning - the ultimate 21st century curriculum

  • School Design - literally the architecture/building for 21st century schools

  • Environmental Education, or Ecoliteracy

  • Visual Literacy

  • Financial Literacy -  incorporating into the curriculum

  • Multicultural Education

  • Character Education

  • Authentic Assessment, or Performance Assessment

  • Constructivism

  • Emotional Literacy

  • Parental and Community Participation

  • Finding, Obtaining and Using Technology