EDCO Collaborative
Professional Development Programs
Summer 2008
2008
COLLAborative summer program in technology: AN ARRAY OF courses TO CHOOSE FROM
June - August, 2008 8:00
AM - 4:00 PM
(Times
will vary depending on the course.)
This collaborative summer program provides K-12
teachers and other school personnel from participating EDCO districts with
opportunities to extend their skill in using technology to support and enhance
their teaching. Workshops focus on
the integration of technology in curriculum areas, use of the Internet,
creation of web pages for curriculum use, and introduction to several
productivity software programs.
Presenters: Teachers
from participating EDCO districts
Audience: K
- 12 teachers and other school personnel from participating EDCO districts
Location: Throughout
participating EDCO districts
Fee: No
fee to participants
Credit
Option: Some
courses are available for graduate credit.
Registration: Online
registration is available at EDCOs website www.edcollab.org/~schoolservices
starting April
11, 2008.
Register
by: Online registration
closes on June 3, 2008. Beyond
that date, teachers may register by calling
EDCO at (781) 259-3445.
INTRODUCTION TO
SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING
(Category
1 of the Recommended Professional Development for Teachers of ELL students)
June
24 and 25, 2008 9:00
AM - 3:00 PM
This course will provide educators with key skills and
knowledge for helping English Language Learners succeed in schools. Among the topics to be covered are:
Key
factors affecting second language acquisition
The
interrelationship of language and culture
How
to identify linguistic demands of academic tasks
How
to analyze your classroom as a site for second language acquisition
The
implications of cultural differences for classroom organization and
instruction
This
course provides the recommended number of hours of professional development for
Category 1 Sheltered
English Immersion training. At the
conclusion of the course, teachers will receive a certificate of participation.
Presenters: Jodi Klein, Newton
Public Schools
Kathy
Lobo, Belmont Public Schools
Presenters
are Category I approved trainers by the MA Dept. of Ed.
Audience: K- 12 classroom teachers
Location: EDCO Seefurth Center,
Waltham
Fee: $175 EDCO members/$220
non-members
Credit Option: At the first class,
participants may register for 1 graduate credit through Cambridge College for
an additional fee of $50.
Registration: Through the office of
Curriculum and Instruction in your district
Register
by: June
3, 2008. Registrations
received beyond that date will be accepted based upon space
availability.
INTEGRATING
TECHNOLOGY INTO LANGUAGE ARTS IN THE PRIMARY GRADES (1 - 3)
June 25 and 26, 2008 8:30
AM - 2:30 PM
June 27, 2008 8:30
AM - 12:30 PM
How
todays students become literate is being redefined as they are exposed to
technology that supports the development and use of their literacy skills. This
course considers practical and research-based strategies that integrate
technology into the primary language arts curriculum, focusing on improving
students reading and writing skills. Participants will learn about and
experiment with technologies that facilitate engagement with reading
comprehension, word study, fluency, and the writing process. By the end of the course, participants
will be able to:
Presenters: Pamela
Tully, Town-wide Literacy Specialist, Brookline Public Schools
Sandra
Sicard, Educational Technology Specialist, Brookline Public Schools
Audience: Teachers
of grades 1 - 3 and Instructional Technology Specialists
Location: Pierce
School, Brookline
Fee: $175
EDCO members/$220 non-members
Credit
Option: At
the first class, participants may register for 1 graduate credit through
Framingham State College for an additional fee of $65.
Registration: Through
the office of Curriculum and Instruction in your district
Register by: June 3,
2008. Registrations
received beyond that date will be accepted based upon space
availability.
ENHANCING
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING
June
26 and 27, 2008 9:00
AM - 3:30 PM
October 6 and 27,
2008 9:00
AM - 3:30 PM
(Category 2 of the Recommended Professional
Development for Teachers of ELL students)
This
course is designed to help elementary and middle school teachers learn how to
adapt their content instruction so they can work more successfully with English
language learners (ELLs) in regular classroom settings. Educators learn how to adapt
instruction and materials to help ELLs understand academic content, develop
academic and social language, and participate in classroom activities. This course meets the requirements for Category
Two of Sheltered English Immersion
professional development as needed for the Department of Educations proposed
ELL endorsement.
Presenters: Jodi Klein, Newton Public Schools
Kathy
Lobo, Belmont Public Schools
Presenters
are Category Two approved trainers by the MA Dept of Ed.
Audience:
K- 8 classroom teachers
Location: EDCO Seefurth Center, Waltham
Fee: $300 EDCO members / $360 non-members (Materials
included.)
Credit Option: Participants may register at the first class for 3 graduate credits from Cambridge College for an
additional fee of $150.
Registration: Through the office of Curriculum and Instruction in
your district
Register by: June 3, 2008. Registrations
received beyond that date will be accepted based upon space
availability.
HELPING
STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE RESEARCH PROCESS
Face to Face Meeting: June 25, 2008 9:00
AM - 1:00 PM
Online sessions: June
25 – July 11, 2008 No
set times
The
course consists of one face-to-face meeting followed by 8 hours of structured
online exploration and participation in forums. Well use the face-to-face meeting to jump start participants
in developing Essential Questions and evaluating Research Models. A well-developed set of Internet links
as well as book titles will provide support and structure for exploration. The course product will be a unit
centered on a Resource Model chosen and adapted by members of the course.
Presenter: Carol
Kelly, Salem State College and former K - 12 librarian
Audience: Classroom teachers and librarians
Location: Face-to-face
meeting at EDCO Seefurth Center, Waltham
Fee: $175 EDCO members / $210 non-members
Credit
Option: Participants
may register at the first class for 1 graduate credit from Framingham State
College for an additional fee of $65.
Registration: Through the
office of Curriculum and Instruction in your district
Register by: June 3, 2008. Registrations
received beyond that date will be accepted based upon space
availability.
USING
FILM TO PROMOTE READING, WRITING, SPEAKING, LISTENING AND CULTURE IN THE
SPANISH CLASSROOM
July 8 - 10, 2008 9:00
AM - 1:00 PM
This course is designed for middle and high school teachers of
Spanish who would like to use films more effectively in class. The course will
focus on planning activities to use before, during and after viewing a film.
The instructor will demonstrate how to use film to include skills in reading,
writing, listening, speaking, cultural awareness, and accuracy (grammar). The
use of technology such as the Internet, video cameras, and iMovie will be
discussed. At the first class session participants will view a film using the
lesson plans the instructor has put together. The second session will focus on
films each teacher wants to use in his/her own classroom and the designing of
lesson plans that get students talking and writing. The third and fourth class
sessions will use segments from films to initiate class discussion as well as
reading and writing activities. This course will be conducted in Spanish.
Presenter: Patricia McElhiney,
former teacher of Spanish and Director of Foreign Languages
Audience: Grade 6 - 12
Spanish Teachers
Location: EDCO Seefurth
Center, Waltham
Fee: $200
EDCO and TEC members / $250 non-members
Credit
Option: At
the first class, participants may register for 1 graduate credit from Worcester
State College for an additional fee of $100.
Registration: Through the office of
Curriculum and Instruction in your district
Register
by: June 3, 2008. Registrations
received beyond that date will be accepted based upon space
availability.
EMI 1: ANTI-RACIST TEACHING PRACTICES (TALKING
ABOUT RACE)
Session
A
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Session
B
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Tuesday |
July
8th |
8:30 – 3:30 |
Monday |
July
14th |
8:30 – 3:30 |
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Thursday |
July
10th |
8:30 – 3:30 |
Wednesday |
July
16th |
8:30 – 3:30 |
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Tuesday |
July
15th |
8:30 – 3:30 |
Monday |
July
21st |
8:30 – 3:30 |
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Thursday |
July
17th |
8:30 – 3:30 |
Wednesday |
July
23rd |
8:30 – 3:30 |
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Tuesday |
July
22nd |
8:30 – 3:30 |
Monday |
July
28th |
8:30 – 3:30 |
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Thursday |
July
24th |
8:30 – 3:30 |
Wednesday |
July
30th |
8:30 – 3:30 |
This
course is designed to introduce participants to issues involved in recognizing
and developing effective teaching strategies to improve the academic
achievement of students of color and nurture the development of all
students. While the curriculum
recognizes many factors that impact achievement and social development, this
course focuses primarily on issues related to race and ethnicity. Participants will explore the current
personal, cultural, and structural meanings of race, ethnicity and culture. The
roles of power, oppression, and identity will be examined. The second half of the course will
focus on how these issues affect classrooms and school systems, and their
impact on the academic achievement gap.
The class will investigate practical ways to develop anti-racist,
culturally sensitive, multicultural teaching styles, curriculum, classrooms and
systems that work toward narrowing this gap.
Presenters: Pairs
of EMI Instructors
Audience: K-12 Educators
Location: Session A: Bedford
Session
B: Newton
Fee: $400
Credit Option: At the first day of the course,
participants may register for 3 graduate credits from Framingham State College
for an additional cost of $195.
Registration: Through the
office of Curriculum and Instruction in your district
Register
by: April
10, 2008. Registrations received beyond that
date will be accepted based upon space
availability.
A CHANGING
LANDSCAPE OVER TIME: TEACHING
ABOUT MASSACHUSETTS GEOGRAPHY
July
14 – 17, 2008 8:15
AM - 3:00 PM
July
18, 2008 8:15
AM - 12:00 PM
This institute will provide teachers with an opportunity to expand
their knowledge of the history and geography of Massachusetts. Participants will interact with and
learn from museum educators, humanists and scholars. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, outside
readings and local field trips, participating teachers will study the following
topics:
Participating
teachers will produce lesson plans for use in their own classroom and to share
with colleagues in the institute.
A certificate of participation and a modest stipend will be awarded to
participants upon completion of a project.
Presenters: Concord Museum
Educators, National Geographic Teacher Consultants and local scholars
Audience: Elementary teachers who
teach Massachusetts geography and history
Location: Concord Museum, Concord,
MA
Fee: No charge to EDCO
members - supported with grant funds from the Massachusetts Geographic
Alliance.
A $100 stipend will be awarded to
participants upon completion of a curriculum project.
Credit Option: Pending approval from Fitchburg State
College, at the first class participants may choose to register for 2 graduate
credits for an additional fee of $215.
Registration: Through the office of
Curriculum and Instruction in your district
Register
by: May 9, 2008. Registrations received beyond that date will
be accepted based upon space
availability.
EMI I – A
Course for Administrators
July 15 - 17, 2008 9:00
AM - 4:00 PM
September 24 and October 29, 2008 3:30
PM - 6:30 PM
This
course examines the interrelationships between students, school, and society,
and serves as a foundation for understanding the theory and practice of
multicultural/anti-racism education. Special attention is paid to issues of
race, language, and culture and their influences on individuals in educational
institutions, particularly in suburban environments. The course allows students to learn from and apply
ethnographic methods of research in educational settings.
To
understand the interrelationships between students, families, schools and
society, practitioners will uncover:
a) basic assumptions about how they think about such students, their
teachers, and families;
b)
how schools and society function; c)
how history has affected the development of schooling and present
conditions; d) how educational goals maintained and carried out by schools are
interpreted by different racial and ethnic groups; e) what policies, practices
and processes of schooling foster social justice and equity in learning.
Presenters: A pair of EMI
Instructors
Audience: K - 12 Administrators
who have not previously taken EMI 1.
Location: EDCO Seefurth Center,
Waltham
Fee: $275
Credit Option: Participants may register at the first
class for 2
graduate credits from Framingham State College for an additional fee of $130.
Registration: Through the office of
Curriculum and Instruction in your district
Register
by: April
10, 2008. Registrations
received beyond that date will be accepted based upon space
availability.
Sponsored
by EDC with grant funding though NSF
July
16 and 17, 2008 8:30
AM 3:00 PM
A
half-day follow-up will be scheduled for January 2009
This
institute is designed to help administrators use their leadership roles to
improve math instruction and support for students with disabilities. Your team
will learn about relevant research, view classroom videos, read case stories,
engage in discussions, examine current practices, and plan together. The
institute will focus on the following topics:
Presenters: Fred
Gross, Anna McTigue, Amy Brodesky, and Emily Fagan, Addressing Accessibility
in
Math Project at Education
Development Center, Inc. (EDC), a non-profit organization
Audience: Administrative Teams. The institute is designed for school/district teams of
4-8 people. These
teams can include: math leaders, special education leaders, principals, assistant
principals,
assistant superintendents for curriculum and instruction, teacher leaders, and other
school/district leaders.
Location: Education Development
Center (EDC), Newton
Fee: $200 per team
Registration: Through the office of
Curriculum and Instruction in your district
Register
by: June 3, 2008. Registrations
received beyond that date will be accepted based upon space
availability.
LIRE ET
PARTAGER (READING AND SHARING)
July
21 - 23, 2008 9:00
AM - 12:00 PM
July
25, 2008 9:00
AM - 12:00 PM
(No
meeting on July 24th)
In
this seminar, participants will discuss authentic readings in French in a
collegial atmosphere. Although the
seminar will be led by a facilitator, it will rely heavily on active
discussions and sharing on the part of participants. Some video segments and
Internet sites will be used as support. Following the literary discussion in
French, participants will talk in English about how to present the texts to
intermediate level students. Readings include: French fairy tales, Bizets Carmen, Molires Le
Bourgeois Gentilhomme
and Ionescos Rhinocros. Participants will be
given websites for the texts of the first three readings, but will need to
obtain the text, Rhinocros. Those taking the seminar for credit will
select an additional reading and present it to the group on the last day.
Presenter: Karen Nerpouni,
Educational Consultant, and former Department Head and Assistant Superintendent
Audience: High School French
Teachers
Location: TEC Professional
Development Center, Dedham
Fee: $200 EDCO and TEC
members / $250 non-members
Credit Option: Pending approval from Framingham State
college, participants may register at the first class for 1 graduate credit for
an additional fee of $65.
Registration: Through the office of
Curriculum and Instruction in your district
Register
by: June 3, 2008. Registrations
received beyond that date will be accepted based upon space
availability.
July 22 - 25, 2008 8:30
AM - 3:30 PM
July 31 and August 1, 2008 8:30
AM - 3:30 PM
How is our climate changing and how do scientists know? What effect might climate change have
on Massachusetts? What are simple
hands-on ways to teach this complex topic? This course will introduce you to the principles of climate
science and will suggest methods and resources that will help your students
understand the complex processes of climate change. We will also explore simple, age appropriate ways to
individually and collectively address the challenge of climate change. Workshop participants will:
Presenter: Liz Duff,
Education Staff, Endicott Center, Mass Audubon
Kris
Scopinich, Mass Audubon
Audience: Teachers
of grades 5 - 12
Location: Mass Audubon, Lincoln,
MA
Fee: $175
EDCO members / $220 non-members
Credit Option: Pending approval from Fitchburg State College, participants
may choose to register for 3 graduate
credits for an additional fee of $255.
Registration: Through the office of Curriculum and
Instruction in your district
Register
by: June 3, 2008. Registrations
received beyond that date will be accepted based upon space
availability.
INVESTIGATIONS
IN NUMBER, DATA AND SPACE
Co-sponsored with TEC Collaborative
July 28 - 30, 2008 8:30
AM - 3:00 PM
This introductory program is offered to teachers of grades K-5 from
EDCO and TEC member school districts who will use the Investigations
in Number, Data and Space curriculum for the first time, or for
the first time at their grade level.
Presenters will provide an overview of the curriculum, and will share
their own and their students' experiences in working with the mathematics,
approaches, and materials in the curriculum.
Presenters: Debra
Shein-Gerson, Math Specialist, Weston Public Schools
Christine
Moynihan, Principal, Newton Public Schools
Audience: Teachers
of grades K – 5 and resource specialists in EDCO and TEC schools who will
use Investigations in Number, Data and Space for
the first time, or for the first time at a new grade level.
Location: Broadmeadow
Elementary School, Needham
Fee: $325
EDCO members/$375 non-members
Registration: Through the
office of Curriculum and Instruction in your district. Please be certain that your district uses the Investigations curriculum before
registering.
Register
by: July
11, 2008. Registrations received beyond that date will
be accepted based upon space
availability.
MELA-O Training (Massachusetts
English Language Assessment - Oral)
(Category
3 of the Recommended Professional Development for Teachers of ELL students)
July 29 and 30, 2008