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The Youngest Scientists: Hands-on Adventures (Ages 3 - 8 Years) TEED531N
Bring out the inner scientist in your students and yourself with this course, which includes a wide range of easy-to-do scientific experiments and activities. Using familiar, easily obtainable materials and simple hands-on exercises that illustrate scientific principles, you can learn to make science both accessible and intriguing to children of any age. Some areas covered include: using your senses as scientific tools, science in the air, approaching art and cooking as science, studying living things, and additional adventures in chemistry, physics, electricity, and magnets.
Mary Stetten Carson is the author of The Scientific Kid: Projects, Experiments and Adventures (HarperCollins, 1998) and Let's Play Science (Sterling Publishing, 2007). She has been a science teacher for over 20 years and currently teaches at the West Side YMCA in NYC.
May 9 and 10
Friday, 5:15 - 9 pm
Saturday, 9:30 am - 5 pm
1 CEU $395 / 1 credit $ 1010
Materials fee $15
Registration Deadline: 5/2
Backwards Design (Grades Pre-k - 3) TEWS615N
This workshop looks at the art of lesson planning- from homework to lesson aim. Participants will examine research done by Grant Wiggins and Jaye McTighe on appropriate lesson design. Learning the theory and practice of this approach will help teachers avoid the trap of creating unconnected strings of activities that make a lesson confusing. Participants will examine and assess their current lesson-planning tactics and recreate them using this practical, meaningful method. You'll come away with a fine-tuned approach to lesson planning that will improve your students≠ understanding of any subject.
Rick Ellis has been involved in the fields of early childhood and elementary education for 33 years. He has taught infants through nine-year olds and has also worked in educational administration as a teaching coach/unit leader, mentor, administrator, and instructional computer coordinator. Mr. Ellis also served as the Head Teacher and Project Director for the East Coast Migrant Head Start Project, with centers that "migrated" from Florida to Massachusetts. He recently worked for the NJ State Department of Early Childhood Education in creating the core curriculum standards.
July 8
Tuesday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU $265(not offered for credit)
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 7/1
Creating a Curriculum for an Inclusive, Integrated Classroom (PreK - K) TEWS666N
This workshop will focus broadly on how to concretely design and set up an integrated kindergarten curriculum based upon a Bank Street model, including social studies, literacy, math, science, and art activities that incorporate work with materials and play. The workshop will include ways of making these activities more inclusive to address the needs of a diverse student population. The unique and specific contexts of the participants≠ settings will be taken into account and discussed.
Jennifer Lightman has been an early childhood educator for the past nine years and most recently was the head teacher of the SNAP program (a program for children with special needs) at Central Synagogue Nursery School. She is currently working privately and through the NYC Board of Education as an educational consultant with children with special needs.
Timothy Lightman has been an early childhood teacher and educator for over 12 years. He has taught Pre-K and Kindergarten at the Bank Street School for Children and has worked as a consultant for curriculum development. He spent four years as researcher in the Teachers for a New Era Project at Bank Street College. He is currently working on his dissertation on exploring issues of disability in elementary schools, at Teachers College, Columbia University.
August 6
Wednesday, 10 am - 4:30 pm
.6 CEU only $265
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline: 7/30
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Dynamic Oral Reading Experiences to Inspire Older Readers (Grades 3 - 8) TEWS673N
Reading aloud by students can engage reluctant readers as well as inspire enthusiastic readers to think more deeply about literature. In addition, a vibrant oral reading tradition builds classroom community and provides incomparable training in high-quality listening and respectful communication. This course will offer numerous strategies for teaching your students to use their own voices to connect with literature and poetry and bring it to life. In this inspiring, hands-on, and highly practical workshop you will begin by developing your own skills and style as a reader-aloud. In addition, you'll learn and practice techniques for teaching students how to: select literature that has meaning for them; read aloud with confidence, depth, and grace; and use oral readings as a forum in which to practice active listening and supportive feedback. Choral readings, unconventional read-aloud choices, sophisticated approaches to rhythm and rhyme, and the use of music to underscore readings (among other strategies) will all be explored as tools for building fluency and encouraging personal connections to literature. Please come to the class with a story or artifact to introduce yourself as a reader and whatever you≠re (really) reading now.
Shoshana Wolfe is the author of Your Best Year Yet! Purposeful Planning and Effective Classroom Organization (Scholastic, 2006) and is at work on new book about reading aloud to older students. She began her classroom teaching career in 1994 and has been a head teacher at Brooklyn Friends School, Little Red School House, and Public School 89 in Battery Park City. Now the mother of two small children, she works exclusively as a private tutor in Brooklyn.
July 25
Friday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU only $265
Materials fee $5
Registration Deadline: 7/18
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Experiments in Art: The Artistic Process ARTS500N
Using different materials, participants will experiment with process, color, pattern, composition, texture and light to create books, paintings and photographs. Day One will use landscapes/mindscapes as inspiration for work in pastels and acrylic. Day Two will be spent in a bookmaking workshop. Day Three we will experiment with the camera obscura and take pictures with a camera you construct. The Final day we will bring all elements together, reflect on your creative process, and help structure your final assignment.
Professional artist, Pearl Rosen Golden, is a painter and printmaker who concentrates on the landscape. She has had numerous one woman shows in New York. She is currently an adjunct lecturer in art education at Queens College, CUNY, and teaches Art for Children with Special Needs in the New Perspective program. She is also currently a consultant for schools and museums in developing art programs for children with special needs.
Photographer Ig Mata has been working with the camera obscura and the pinhole camera since 1988. She has taught Pinhole and the Basics of Photography at the Museum of Natural History and the Bank Street School for Children. Mata has had exhibits in New York State and cities throughout Brazil.
Susan Seitner taught at The Dalton School, where making different kinds of books was an important part of her first grade classroom. As the school librarian, she brought bookmaking experiences to teachers through faculty workshops and to children through after school classes and special projects.
August 4, 5, 6, and 7
Monday through Thursday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
2 CEU $790 / 2 credits $2120
Materials fee $50
Registration Deadline 7/28
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Evidence-based Strategies for Struggling Writers (Grades 2 - 8)
Do you ever find that after teaching writing skills, students don't use them independently in other settings? The Self-regulated Strategies Development (SRSD) model not only teaches writing through the most well-researched strategies available, such as modeling, scaffolding with graphic organizers, revising with self and peer editing checklists, but also addresses preparing students to transfer writing skills so that they become self-regulating, independent writers who use their new skills whenever they write. SRSD has been found to be the single most powerful writing strategy available. Learn about this approach and how you can customize it to your students' needs in this course.
Leslie Laud has worked as an elementary school teacher and is currently a middle school learning specialist at the United Nations International School. She has published articles on writing instruction in journals such as Teaching Exceptional Children (3/07). In addition, she has presented at conferences such the New York Branch International Dyslexia Association.
Pooja Patel is currently an English teacher at the United Nations International School in NYC. She presents at local and national conferences and has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Teaching Exceptional Children (3/07). She has worked at public and private schools in NYC as an English teacher and a learning specialist.
July 1
Tuesday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU only $265
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline: 6/24
Now offered for credit!
Fractions, Decimals, and Percents: Looking at Models, Big Ideas, Strategies, and Contexts (Grades 2 - 6) TEED652N
This course will examine how children construct an understanding of fractions, decimals, and percents. We will look at various visual models that help students make sense of these topics. We'll examine big ideas and strategies central to fractions, decimals, and percents and look at ways to design a curriculum that elicits these models, big ideas, and strategies. Throughout the entire day's discussions and activities, we will develop realistic contexts that allow students to connect fractions, decimals, and percents to the world outside of school.
Julie Broderick teaches at The School at Columbia University. Previously she taught second, third, and fifth grades at the Manhattan School for Children. She regularly teaches math classes at the Bank Street Graduate School, and she leads math workshops in elementary schools throughout the NYC area.
July 7 and 8
Monday and Tuesday, 9:30 am √ 4 pm
1 CEU $395/ 1 credit $1060
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 7/1
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Strategies for Teaching About Islam (Grades 4 - 8) TEWS667N
The impact of Islam on world history, our own times, and the increasing number of Muslim students in our schools all warrant a greater study of Islam in the Classroom. While teachers increasingly recognize this need, just when and how to teach about Islam is not always evident. This course is designed to help teachers find new points of entry through which they can teach about Islam in their Social Studies courses, as well as ways they can create integrated units with teachers of English, art, science, and mathematics.
Joan Brodsky Schur is the author of Eyewitness to the Past: Strategies for Teaching American History in Grades 5-12, Immigrants in America: The Arab Americans, and Editor of Coming to America: The Arabs. Her articles on teaching about Islam have appeared in numerous professional journals and she has written lesson plans for a variety of Websites including The Islam Project.org. Schur serves as Social Studies Coordinator at the Village Community School in New York City.
July 22 and 24
Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU only $395
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline: 7/15
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Understanding Childhood Fears: Talking about Death and Dying in the Classroom (Pre-school - 3) TEWS675N
This workshop will help teachers understand what death means to a young child. In addition, you will learn techniques to remain emotionally available so you can comfortably discuss the difficult feelings around death. We will discuss ways to help children explore the concept of death throughout the curriculum, ie. Exploring dead leaves on the class plant or in the park during the fall, what to do when the class pet dies, and how to respond to children's questions about their own mortality in a way that respects individual family beliefs.
Jean Schreiber is currently an educational consultant for schools and parents, including Ethical Cutlure Fieldston School , in Manhattan, and The Dwight Englewood School, in Englewood, NJ. She was the Director of Temple Beth El Nursery School and Parenting Center in Closter, NJ for 18 years. In addition, Ms. Schreiber has presented at NAEYC in Chicago, IL (2007) and ATIS in NYC (2007 and 2008).
July 28
Monday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU $265(not offered for credit)
Materials fee $5
Registration Deadline 7/21
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