2014 Coop Summer PD Catalog

Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative WMCoop APSCN eSchoolPlus Phase 4A (Week 5, Day 1) 202164 Subject(s): Audience(s): Day 1: a.m. - TAC (teacher) p.m. - TAC (administrator) Description: Presenter(s): NANCY BRAMLETTE Facilitator: NANCY BRAMLETTE Jun 3, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 20 Credit: 6.00 Registration Fee: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab WMCoop APSCN eSchoolPlus Phase 4A (Week 5, Days 2 & 3) 202165 Subject(s): Audience(s): Day 2: a.m. - Mark Reporting (IPR) p.m. - Mark Reporting (RC/TRN) Description: Presenter(s): NANCY BRAMLETTE Facilitator: NANCY BRAMLETTE Jun 4, 5, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 20 Credit: 12.00 Registration Fee: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Project WET - Pharmaceuticals and Water Quality 209491 Subject(s): Science Audience(s): 6-12 This is a Project WET workshop with a special focus on pharmaceuticals and personal care products and water quality. The tour should explain the process of water treatment and its safe return to the environment. This session will address how today’s systems, at the present time, cannot effectively remove ppcp’s from the water as they were not designed that way when they were built. This workshop is planned for teachers of grades 6 – 12. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Participants are to wear comfortable clothing and walking shoes. DO NOT WEAR OPEN TOED SHOES! NO FLIP-FLOPS. We will be taking a field trip to the water treatment plant, by carpool, and return to Harding to complete the session. Description: Presenter(s): Barbara Miller Facilitator: BEN CARRIGAN Jun 5, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Registration Fee: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 TESS: LEADS Specialty Administrators 213519 Subject(s): Other Audience(s): Administrators The LEADS Specialty Administrator training is for school or district administrators who are not principals, assistant principals, or superintendents. These administrators may include Special Education Administrators, Gifted Education Administrators, Curriculum Administrators, and other school or district leaders who are evaluated under LEADS beginning in 2014-15. The training covers the LEADS evaluation process and the specialty administrator rubrics. Description: Presenter(s): Diann Gathright, Ivy Pfeffer, Jim Johnson Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Jun 5, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Registration Fee: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Page 1 of 51 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative WMCoop APSCN eSchoolPlus Phase 4A (Week 5, Day 4) 202167 Subject(s): Audience(s): Day 4: HAC>Workshop Description: Presenter(s): NANCY BRAMLETTE Facilitator: NANCY BRAMLETTE Jun 6, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 20 Credit: 6.00 Registration Fee: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Close Reading Using Informational Texts in English Language Arts for Grades 6-12 210435 Subject(s): Language Arts Audience(s): 6-12 This professional development provides strategies that will enable participants to design instruction that promotes close reading behaviors using Informational text, including Literary Nonfiction, in the English Language Arts classes. Description: Note: This will be a repeated session from last year. Presenter(s): Greg Moore Facilitator: Greg Moore Jun 9, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Registration Fee: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe GLOBE - An Environmental Science Program for Middle Level Teachers 211993 Subject(s): Science Audience(s): 4-8 GLOBE is a hands-on environmental science and education program involving students in primary and secondary schools throughout the world. This session will support students, teachers and scientists as they collaborate in inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in close partnership with NASA, NOAA and NSF in study and research about the dynamics of Earth's environment. Protocols included in this introductory session are: Atmosphere/Climate, Hydrology, and Soil. Participants will gain access to the GLOBE site for uploading student data. Description: Presenter(s): BEN CARRIGAN, Keith Harris Facilitator: NANETTE NICHOLS Jun 9, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 20 Credit: 6.00 Registration Fee: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Developing Base 10 Understanding 212427 Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): K-6 In this class, we will make sense of the base 10 system generally through number and properties of operations. We will begin by looking at the roots that begin in kindergarten based in the counting sequence, to generalizing place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers in fourth grade, and finally making connections for 5th and 6th grade to the decimal system. This class is based on the multiplicative structure of the base ten system and properties of operations with the only difference between grade levels being the magnitude of the numbers. Description: Presenter(s): KRISTI SMITH Facilitator: Pam Allen Jun 9, 10, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 30 Credit: 12.00 Registration Fee: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Page 2 of 51 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative Reflections on Algebra 1 Units 210780 Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 9-12 A structure for Algebra 1 units was shared by Linda Griffith last summer. This workshop will be reflections from a teacher’s implementation of those units during this school year. Learn about what worked, and what one teacher decided to change in her classroom. The following TESS Domains and Components will be addressed: 1a, 1d, 4a. Description: Presenter(s): Dutchess Butler, Tim Brister Facilitator: Tim Brister Jun 10, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 36 Credit: 6.00 Registration Fee: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 China: Between Tradition and the Modern World 211123 Subject(s): Social Sciences Audience(s): 7-12 This workshop delivers content useful to the teaching of World History, Comparative Government, and Asian Culture. Participants will come to understand the tumultuous road China followed from being a traditional, Confucian Empire in the early 1800s to being a rising world power at the start of the twenty-first century, as well as difficulties China is to face in the near future. Topics covered include: the Opium War, the Taiping Rebellion, the Sino-Japanese War and WWII, Maoist China, and post-Mao reform and the contemporary situation. The workshop will feature a combination of lecture, discussion, and the introduction of primary sources and online images useful for teaching China. Description: Presenter(s): Dr. Jeff Kyong-McClain Facilitator: JoElla Kloss Jun 10, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 35 Credit: 6.00 Registration Fee: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe TESS: Create a Culture for Learning Through Knowledge of Your Students 212377 Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12 Student motivation and appreciation for knowledge can be increased through the use of student information. From learning styles to family history, benchmarks to extracurricular activities, knowledge of the students in your classroom should be foundational in planning lessons that will engage all students in the learning. This session will engage participants in activities and discussions related to Charlotte Danielson’s Framework for Teaching, components 1B (Demonstrating Knowledge of Students) and 2B (Establishing a Culture for Learning). Description: Presenter(s): Greg Moore, NANETTE NICHOLS Facilitator: NANETTE NICHOLS Jun 10, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 60 Credit: 6.00 Registration Fee: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Functions Grades 6-12 210678 Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 6-12 This course uses the book "Developing Essential Understanding of Expressions, Equations and Functions: Grades 6-8" from NCTM, to explore the Functions domain in the Common Core State Standards. The sessions will explore the five big ideas from the text and extend these ideas through high school. The five big ideas explored in this course are: Expressions; Variables; Equality; Representing and Analyzing Functions; and Solving Equations. There is no pre-requisite for this course, but the course will align with two other courses in this series: Algebraic Thinking as a Bridge to Functions Grades 3-6 and Developing Proportional Reasoning Grades 4-7. The following TESS Domains and Components will be addressed: 1a, 1e. Description: Presenter(s): Tim Brister Facilitator: Tim Brister Jun 11, 12, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 36 Credit: 12.00 Registration Fee: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Page 3 of 51 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative Social Studies Disciplinary Literacy 211955 Subject(s): Social Sciences Audience(s): 5-12 This professional development opportunity supports social studies teachers as they implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for literacy. The resulting student products will serve as artifacts for the Teacher Excellence and Support System (TESS). The first part of this training will provide background information to develop a foundational understanding of literacy as described in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The second part of this professional development provides strategies that will enable participants to design social studies instruction that supports historical thinking skills, close reading, and leads students to produce informational and argumentative writing pieces. Description: Presenter(s): TBA TBA Facilitator: Greg Moore Jun 11, 2014 $0 Location: Date(s): Time: Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Registration Fee: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Anchor Standards - A Way for Science 212378 Subject(s): Science Audience(s): 6-12 Participants will enhance their understanding of how to incorporate CCSS Reading and Writing Standards into their Science Curriculum.

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