Teaching & Learning eCatalog

Blueprint for Middle School Success Workshop Series

Jim McDermott — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:35:44 +0000

The Office of Curriculum, Standards and Academic Engagement offers FREE middle school professional learning opportunities that support middle school improvement and successful implementation of best middle school practices as identified in the Blueprint for Middle School Success. The Blueprint, a key component of the Campaign for Middle School Success, is a comprehensive framework for aligned school improvement informed by research and effective middle school practices, consisting of five key elements of middle school success:

• High expectations and rigorous opportunities for all students
• Effective management of human capital
• Adolescent development supports
• Integrated parental and community engagement
• Supportive school structure and organization

To print a hard copy of the BMSS Workshop Series Catalog, click here. To enroll, click on the desired course from the list below.

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Building Online Capacity Institute for Professional Development Providers

elearning — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:25:28 +0000

The Department of eLearning Services is working closely with professional development providers to transform the traditional face-to-face professional learning model into one which delivers high quality instructional services to a wide range of constituents without the logistical confines of time and space. As a result, our department has partnered with the Education Development Center and created, the Building Online Capacity Institute, a free nine-week facilitated course that runs until March, which helps and trains PD providers to deliver and create online professional learning opportunities for their constituents. NYCDOE staff from various central offices and networks have designated up to forty-two members from their staff to serve as Online Curriculum Coordinators for each cohort. This will allow them to turnkey blended PD courses. In addition, participants from each cohort receives ongoing support from EDC staff, as well as routine follow-ups from eLearning staff to ensure that the course is tailored to, and aligned with each office professional expectations and goals. Participants also receive a free, two-day training in Captivate, a leading training software, along with a two-hour training in Articulate via Webex and much more! For more information about the institute and other professional development learning opportunities that we offer, contact Jacquii Leveine at jleveine@schools.nyc.gov

Brooklyn Reading Council 29th Boro-wide Professional Conference

Jim McDermott — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:03:03 +0000

The Brooklyn Reading Council invites you to the 29th Bor0-wide Professional Conference: Launching Literacy for Limitless Learning. Friday, February 5, 2010, 8:00am – 3:00pm at Kingsborough Community College.

With keynote speaker Dr. Pedro Noguera (NYU), special guest Santiago Taveras (NYCDOE) and distinguished author John Elder Robison, New York Times best selling author of Look Me in the Eye.

Outstanding Literacy Workshops in:

○ Art Integration
○ Small Group Strategies
○ Struggling Readers
○ Early Childhood Literacy
○ Urban Resources
○ Parent Involvement
○ ESL
○ Differentiated Instruction
○ Multicultural Literature
○ Testing and Assessment
○ Literacy in the Middle and High School
○ Content Area Reading
○ Balanced Literacy
○ Creative Writing
○ Fluency

Download the registration form and full brochure: http://whatiselearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/BRC_borowide-Brochure.pdf

Upcoming Online Opportunities

Jim McDermott — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:23:55 +0000

We currently offer two types of online workshops: Blended and Self-Paced. Blended learning opportunities have at least one real-time or face-to-face session with the balance of the material taught online with a facilitator and assignments with deadlines. Self-Paced opportunities are self-directed learning modules that are completely online, require no facilitator, but are still organized to be and intended to be taken as courses. The workshops below will indicate what they are in the location field where it will say: ONLINE — Blended.. or ONLINE — Self-Paced..

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Upcoming Webinars

Jim McDermott — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:21:32 +0000

eLearning Services currently has licenses for four online rooms holding 25 participants in each. Participants are all encouraged to speak via phone bridge technology and can follow and contribute visually through shared whiteboard, desktop and files. This service is available to the Teaching & Learning community and the DOE as a whole. For more information, contact eLearning Services at elearning@schools.nyc.gov.

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