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Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 2/6/2023
This seminar is designed for the new member who is working with teacher assistants. Participants will explore the roles and responsibilities of Teaching Assistants, as well as characteristics that describe effective teaching assistants. Scenarios and strategies will be used to introduce techniques that will lead to a positive working relationship between teachers and assistants. The seminar's interactive activities will model how these techniques can be implemented in a teacher's practice. The content will be mindful of the diverse learners and backgrounds present in a classroom. Participants will have an opportunity to prepare next steps needed to integrate effective teaching assistant practice into their daily routines.
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 2/7/2023 to 2/14/2023
Think differently about how Kami can make your classroom more connected and interactive. This course will go beyond the basics and dig deep into this flexible tool by exploring how it can be used for real-time collaboration, fostering communication, encouraging critical thinking, student engagement, and invoking creativity. You will create multiple lessons using Kami in a variety of ways. Course Objectives Explore strategies to support technology integration. Build a digital toolbox that supports these frameworks. Create lessons that can be implemented in your classroom.
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 2/8/2023
The ultimate learning environment is rich in engagement. When the learner is engaged they are fully immersed in the learning. This seminar delves into multiple strategies for educators to create that rich learning environment and motivate our 21st century students. With cognitive engagement the students do all the hard work of learning while the teacher is truly a facilitator. (3 hour)
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 2/8/2023
This seminar provides an overview of Healing Circles. Healing Circles create a safe space to acknowledge the impact of Covid-19 on the school community and for expressing emotions and concerns; to access the healing effects of connecting with others to deal with the impact on their lives. Teachers, staff and students will need time to transition back to school. To be at their best, educators need time to debrief, express their concerns on everything from personal and student safety to instructional practice, and acknowledge their own feelings of grief. Healing circles are built on a foundation of kindness and respect. Circle participants listen with compassion and understanding and hold all stories shared in the circle in confidence. All participants speak with intention and have an equal voice. (2 hour)
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 2/13/2023
Educators will discuss strategies for building community by using the distinctive traits and talents of individuals and establish a culture of collaboration to meet individual student needs. (1.5 hour)
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 2/13/2023
**LINK WILL BE SENT THE DAY BEFORE** Educators will discuss strategies for building community by using the distinctive traits and talents of individuals and establish a culture of collaboration to meet individual student needs.
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 2/14/2023
Learn a variety of ways to infuse art into your curriculum with free and low-cost apps and programs that can be used at home for every level and discipline. We'll explore visualizing learning with sketchnotes, drawing with code, creating digital mandalas to support mindfulness, time-lapse art, recreating famous portraits, and digital comics. Support equity and social-emotional learning with these fun, engaging ideas and projects.
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 2/15/2023
his seminar provides an overview of discipline dis[1]parities, restorative practices and ways to promote positive discipline in schools. RP examines recent data collected on disciplinary trends by the US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights. Key ideas and components of Restorative Practice are presented. Research and reasons for using restorative practices as an alternative to suspensions and other punitive approaches to misbehavior are explored. This seminar will offer educator's strategies to engage in restorative questioning, dialogue, tier I restorative circles, community building and restorative conversations. (3 hour)
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 2/15/2023
**LINK WILL BE SENT THE DAY BEFORE** This seminar provides an overview of discipline disparities, restorative practices and ways to promote positive discipline in schools. RP examines recent data collected on disciplinary trends by the US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights. Key ideas and components of Restorative Practice are presented. Research and reasons for using restorative practices as an alternative to suspensions and other punitive approaches to misbehavior are explored. This seminar will offer educator's strategies to engage in restorative questioning, dialogue, tier I restorative circles, community building and restorative conversations.
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 2/28/2023
Learn how to boost creativity and create video poetry incorporating video, photographs, drawings, animation, and augmented reality. We'll incorporate type, images, sound, and video together using a variety of tools from old-school pen and paper to programs and apps like: Adobe Creative Cloud Express, iMovie, Weird Type, Eyejack, and iMotion. We'll explore creative ways to incorporate the project which is featured in the ISTE book STEAM Power.
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 3/2/2023
**LINK WILL BE SENT THE DAY BEFORE** The NYS Computer Science and Digital Fluency standards were adopted by the Board of Regents in 2020. These standards will ensure that every student knows how to live productively and safely in a technology-dominated world, including understanding the essential features of digital technologies, why and how they work, and how to communicate and create using those technologies. This course will explore these standards and how they can be incorporated into your subject area and grade levels. Lessons will be explored, created, and shared so you will have a toolbox of standard-aligned lessons that you can use in your classroom tomorrow. This course will be conducted in an asynchronous online setting utilizing Google Classroom as the delivery platform. Participants meet virtually via online communities to discuss and share lessons and strategies.
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 3/7/2023
**LINK WILL BE SENT THE DAY BEFORE** Learn a variety of free tools that work on the Chromebook for graphics, video, GIFs, drawing, web design, animation, and augmented reality that can be used in any classroom. These technologies can help add a creative element to any learning environment and boost engagement with students. We'll explore some diverse and inspiring uses from quick visuals for presentations or check-ins to project-based learning examples and go through the creative process ourselves.
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 3/9/2023 to 3/16/2023
**LINK WILL BE SENT THE DAY BEFORE** Description Think differently about how Nearpod makes your classroom more connected and interactive. This course will go beyond the basics and dig deep into this flexible tool by exploring how it can be used for synchronous and asynchronous learning, collaboration, encouraging critical thinking, student engagement, and real-time formative assessment. You will create multiple lessons using Nearpod in a variety of ways. Course Objectives Explore strategies to support technology integration. Build a digital toolbox that supports these frameworks. Create lessons that can be implemented in your classroom.
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 3/14/2023
Learn how to organize Gmail, Google Drive, Slides, Calendar, Chrome, Docs, and Classroom with tips and tricks such as: labels, folders, filters, and other time-saving tips like email signature and scheduling emails. Time will also be dedicated to actually put the learning into action and organize during the session.
Program: Suffolks Edge Teachers Center
Dates: 3/21/2023
Learn easy ways to engage students in learning with emerging educational technology. Explore fun and versatile digital tools for learning, collaboration, and assessment that can be used on any level. We will explore a variety of tools and projects with demonstrations and interactive modeling in which attendees participate.