SUMMER 2008 Courses 

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• Reading and Writing
• Special Education
• Early Childhood
• Early Adolescence
• Music and Movement
• Art and Science
• Social Studies
•  Methods and Management 
• Mathematics
• Leadership
• Career Development
• Parent Education
• State Mandated Training Workshops
• Study Abroad

Methods and Management

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

Behavior Management Strategies for the Classroom Teacher (Grades Pre-K - 8) SETE508N
Good classroom management is at the heart of effective teaching. This course is aimed at teachers in regular and special education settings who want to learn how to organize their classrooms to help students realize their maximum potential while also keeping their classes on track. It includes a step-by-step approach for setting up and carrying out a behavior modification strategy. This course is intended for instructors with less than five years experience, but even more experienced professionals will come away with new techniques to add to their repertoire.

Debbie Zlotowitz is the Head of the Mary McDowell Center for Learning, an elementary school for children with learning disabilities in Brooklyn, NY.

July 30 and 31
Wednesday and Thursday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
1 CEU $395/ 1 credit $1060
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 7/23

Conflict Resolution in the Upper Grades (Grades 4 - 8) TEED584N
Spend more time teaching and less time arbitrating! Learn the strategies and skills necessary to develop non-violent resolutions to conflict. Through small-group discussion and role plays, participants will analyze the four main building blocks of conflict resolution:

• Activities that develop a strong sense of group;
• Communication skills that promote active listening, speaking, and observing;
• Exercises that increase self esteem;
• Techniques for problem solving, conflict management, negotiation, and mediation.

This course addresses NY State English Language Arts Standard E3.

Nino Nannarone is the Senior Program Associate of The Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, and the Director of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program in NYC. He is also a certified mediator with the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, NY.

July 14 and 15
Monday and Tuesday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
1 CEU $395/ 1 credit $1060
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 7/7

Creating a Curriculum for an 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, with social studies as the core curriculum. We will also discuss 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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Integrating Progressive Education and Mandated Curriculum (Grades K - 5) TEWS650N
This workshop will help prepare the progressively trained educator to effectively use the state≠s mandated curriculum to prepare students for academic success. Participants will take a critical look at Dewey's pedagogy, Gardener's ≥Teaching for Understanding≈ techniques, and the content of the mandated curriculum in order to develop specific teaching strategies within each academic discipline. Additionally, participants will become familiar with the how and why of State Standards. This course is appropriate for teachers, curriculum coordinators, coaches, mentors, museum educators, and principals.

Heidi Steinberger currently teaches fourth grade at The Emily Dickenson School: PS 75, in NYC. Previously, she worked at Pacific Oaks College and Children's School in California as Human Development Adjunct Faculty and Master Lead Teacher/Peace Education Coordinator, Multi-Subject.

July 18
Friday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
1 CEU $395(not offered for credit)
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline: 7/11

Overview of Remedial Programs for Teaching Reading and Writing (Grades K - 8 skill level) TEWS660N
This is an opportunity for educators to get a quick overview of different remedial programs many tutors have found helpful in supporting reading and writing skills. We will focus on some of the more successful approaches to supporting struggling readers and/or writers and learn which programs tend to work best with different needs. These programs are designed for (or easily modified for) use one-on-one and in small groups. Get acquainted with a variety of programs including: Visualizing and Verbalizing; Preventing Academic Failure; and Basic Writing Skills.
* This is a follow-up to Starting Your Own Tutoring Practice.

Ginny O'Hare is the Director of Outreach at the Mary McDowell Center for Learning in Brooklyn, NY, an elementary school for children with learning disabilities. In addition, she has an extensive private tutoring practice using multi-sensory methodologies.

July 11
Friday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU $265 only
Materials fee $5
Registration Deadline 7/3

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 - 4 pm
1 CEU only $395
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline: 7/15

Talking with Parents of Children with Special Needs (Ages 3 - 6 Years) SEWS555N
While early childhood educators and program directors are often the first to speak with parents about their child's delayed or atypical development, many feel unprepared to assume this role and responsibility. To make these encounters less awkward, we will review and discuss the stages of awareness that parents experience as they process and integrate information about their child's special need. Participants will learn approaches to parent/teacher conferences that will help them work with parents who need time to let go of their old expectations and adjust to new realities. Drawing from their own experiences with parents, participants will examine teacher/parent relationships and discuss obstacles that impede respectful collaborations.

Wanda Frankel is a Mental Health Consultant through the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, where she had also worked as a Clinical Coordinator for the Early Childhood Playgroup Therapy Program. Previously, she was a pre-school special education teacher working with deaf children, and a staff developer and workshop facilitator for Bank Street College's Continuing Education Division.

June 30
Monday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU $265(not offered for credit)
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 6/23

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