Fall 2008 Professional Dev. Schedule

Professional Development Schedule for the Spring Semester 2009-2010
(Updated December 15, 2009)

All in-services start at 3:30 and end at 5:00. Each site needs to email Mr. Wagner at jwagner(at)avr2.org at least a week in advance to be scheduled for the session. This is critical since the scheduling is through MOREnet and sites cannot be added after the due date. Handouts are available for most sessions on the MAIN link from the Arcadia Valley homepage www.avr2.org

Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Transitioning from Office 2003 to Office 2007
Presented by Claudette Roper, Mineral Area TCRC
Handout

Monday, February 15, 2010
Student Engagement
Presented by Julian Kite, South Central Regional Professional Development Center
This session will consist of the 10 Steps (or Rules) of Engagement: primarily covering warm-up, focused students, collaboration, quick writes, tight ship, fairness cup, signaling, squeeze dead time, teaching styles, and team work. Each step will be defined. Then, the procedure to set up the engagement, and finally, the Here’s How (examples of effective engagement). These 10 steps/rules will apply to the concept of Effective Classroom Strategies. Participants will experience limited lecture and hands on activities. Strategies/activities will be applicable to every teacher’s template for Classroom Management.
Handout 1
Handout 2
Handout 3

Thursday, February 18, 2010
Bullying Prevention
Presented by John Lewis, South Central Regional Professional Development Center
This session will provide a summary of the research regarding effective practices to prevent bullying behavior. It will include a discussion of the differences between boy and girl bullying behavior, as well as present a need for bully behavior prevention in schools.
Handout

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Cyber Bullying & Internet Safety
Presented by Melanie Dillard, Central School District

Thursday, March 11, 2010
School Safety
Presented by John Lewis, South Central Regional Professional Development Center
This session will present research based practices that have proven effective in enhancing the safety of students in the school environment.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010
SMART Notebook
Presented by Diane Gremp, South Central Regional Professional Development Center
This session will help improve your SMART Notebook lessons. It will include using items from the Gallery and Lesson Activity Toolkit to enhance your SMART Notebook lessons. During the session, we will also review online resources for engaging activities.

Schools are reminded that they must contact Jim Wagner, jwagner(at)avr2.org, at least one week in advance to schedule attendance at any workshops. We must make contact with MOREnet to set these sessions up and they do not usually allow changes. Please work with your PDC committees and schedule as soon as possible if you are interested in hosting any of the sessions at your school. Some of the sessions will have a second session and they must be scheduled with Mr. Wagner if you plan to attend the second session.