Professional DevelopmentBethel Core Training

Winter

& Spring

Course Offerings

2009

Register online @http://my.bethel.org

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Core Training Opportunities Qualify for

the 2008-2009 TRI Program

Attendance qualifies for Bethel Core Training or Self-Directed TRI activities. Workshops are labeled with the qualifying Bethel Core Training category. The TRI Program requires employees who are in their first two years in education or who are in their first year in Bethel School District to complete three days (21 hours) of Bethel Core Training. All other employees who are not “new employees” must complete two days (14 hours) of Bethel Core Training.

Instructional Coaches and CaL / ACT staff are offering courses in each building. Check with them for specific courses available at your school.

State Funded Math & Science Courses

Bethel Core Training and State Funded Professional Development Days in Math and Science must be accomplished by June 2009. This brochure lists qualifying classes available this winter. Additional courses will not be available until the June Institute. The June Institute dates will be announced soon. We are tentative to set confirmed dates due to the inclement weather we have been experiencing this school year. The Office of Professional Development needs a couple days after the end of the school year to set-up for the June Institute. Dates of the institute are dependent on the establishment of the last day of school. Thank you for your patience.

Mark your calendars for the August Summer Institute!

August 12, 13, 14, 17 & 18 (June dates to be announced)

Register Early... Classes Have Participant Limitations

A minimum of 10 participants is required for all classes. You will be notified by phone and email of cancellations.

To confirm or cancel your registration go to the Certificated Development link on the MyBethel portal and log in. Courses may be viewed in the box, “My Classes Upcoming.”

Course 8431 ~ Posting Classroom Content Online with Moodle, Tonya Narramore v Instructional Technology Core Training for Role Appropriate Certificated Secondary Staff

Dates: January 13, 20, 27 & February 3Time: 3:00 - 4:45 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: ESC 3 Technology Lab Audience: Secondary Educators

For teachers already comfortable with SWIFT, Moodle is the next step in creating a powerful classroom presence on the web. By utilizing Bethel’s Moodle server, teachers can post classroom content, including assignments, discussions, and assessments. With an internet connection, students will be able to access the class content, submit assignments, and much more. Participants will also learn how to integrate many of Bethel’s online resources provided in the MyBethel Portal. Class limited to Bethel 15 participants.

Course 8436 ~ Brush Up Your Classroom Management!, Ruth Pitingoro & Char Hutchinsv Best Classroom Management Practices Core Training

Dates: Tuesdays, January 20, 27 & February 3Time: 4:15-6:45 Clock Hours: 7 Location: Bethel Junior High, Rm 106 Audience: Elem. & Sec. Educators

When your class doesn’t run like clockwork…or your students seem distracted or don’t care about what you are teaching… do you wonder what might bring life and structure back into your classroom? Brush up on classroom management strategies; build small group structures for student accountability, foster quality student discussions around worthwhile tasks…join in to brush up!

Course 8437 ~ Elementary Foss Variables Kit Training, Stephanie Ovechka & Connie Hill v Best Teaching Practices in Science Core Training

Dates: January 22, 29, February 5 & 19 Time: 4:15 – 5:40 Clock Hours: 7 Location: Cedarcrest Jr. High, Room 206 Audience: Sixth Grade Educators

*Bring the Teacher Manual for the Variable Kit

Join two science teachers to truly experience and explore all the Variable Kit’s investigations. This is a great hands-on opportunity providing tips, hints, tricks to making the teaching of the kit more manageable and successful. You will participate in models of science journaling that match the student investigations, as well as receive tips for managing the assessment piece that goes along with the journal.

Course 8432 ~ Managing the Everyday Math Curriculum, Kristin Powell & Shelley Prattv Best Classroom Management Practices in Mathematics Core Training

Dates: January 27, February 3 & 10Time: 4:15 – 6:35 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: Naches Trail, Portable 24 Audience: Elementary Educators

Looking for ways to better organize your classroom, students, materials and manipulatives? Need a better method for managing Explorations, games, homework, math boxes, warm-ups, and projects? Struggling with pacing of lessons and/or units? Want to know how other teachers are creating success in their Everyday Math classroom? This class will be interactive, hold your attention and be immediately useful to you!

Course 8438 ~ Standards-Based Grading in the Secondary Classroom Using A, B, C, & I, Loren Willsonv Best Assessment Practices Core Training

Dates: January 29, February 5 & 12Time: 3:15 – 5:35 Clock Hours: 7 Location: Spanaway Junior High, Library Audience: Secondary Educators

Join Loren Willson, an Instructional Coach at Sumner High School, to discuss turning the culture of grading into a culture of feedback. Sessions will be discussion-based and materials will be provided based on the needs of the participants. Specific questions surrounding classroom implementation will be explored: What effect does the use of a permanent zero have on achievement? How should I manage my grade book? What targets should I use? Do I require all students to test at the same time, even when I know some aren’t ready? Do I offer retakes? If so, when? To whom? Under what conditions? What about cheating? Will I need multiple versions of the same test? What do I require for proof of practice? How will I make students do the practice if I don’t grade it? What practices will my building administrators support? What do I need to communicate to parents? What data should I keep regarding the effectiveness of these practices? Workshop supports key practices for HSTW & MMGW.

Course 8439 ~ Utilizing Qwizdom in the Classroom (MAC version), Lori Curtisv Instructional Technology Core Training for Role Appropriate Certificated Staff

Dates: Thursdays, January 29, February 5 & 12 & March 5Time: 4:15-6:00 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: Location: ESC 3 Technology Lab Audience: Certificated Educators

Qwizdom’s classroom remote provides teachers the opportunity to gather student data instantly, gets students involved and creates a dynamic classroom environment. Qwizdom generates instant feedback on formative assessments, which helps teachers work more efficiently to improve student learning. Enroll in this class to learn how to integrate Qwizdom into your classroom. Class limited to 15 participants.

Course 8440 ~ Secondary Social Studies CBAs (Grades 7-12), Jennifer Bonnerv Best Teaching Practices in Social Studies Core Training

Dates: February 3, 10 & 24Time: 3:00 - 5:20 Clock Hours: 7 Location: Spanaway Junior High, Room B-258 Audience: Sec. Social Studies Educators

Attend this nuts and bolts workshop where you will explore specific strategies for incorporating CBAs into your lessons, units and yearly plans. You will receive instructional ideas that support the implementation of these CBA models. You will experience scoring a variety of CBAs. The Social Studies GLEs will be reviewed and you will leave with a clearer, more specific picture of what knowledge, skills and concepts students need to know in civics, history, geography, economics and social studies skills.

Course 8441 ~ Datastreme Weather and Water in the Earth System, Kim Melinev Instructional Technology Core Training for Science and Social Studies Teachers

Dates: February 4, 18, 25, March 4 & 11 Time: 3:00 – 4:25 Clock Hours: 7 Location: Spanaway Jr. High, Room 201Audience: Sec. Science and Social Studies Educators

Participants select one or more sessions to attend. Core Training and clock hours are available to educators that attend all five evenings.

Would you like to incorporate real-time data into your science and social studies classes? Would you like to develop your understandings of the seemingly unpredictable science of meteorology? Join us for five fast-moving classes based on material and websites organized through the American Meteorological Society. The five topics to be covered are: Using current online weather maps, Wind-driven circulation and currents, Density driven ocean circulation, El Nino/La Nina, Climate Trends and Variability.Lesson 1: Weather Map Symbols and Using Current Weather Maps (February 4)Lesson 2: Wind- Driven Ocean Circulation and Currents (February 18)Lesson 3: Density Driven Ocean Circulation (February 25)Lesson 4: El Nino and La Nina (March 4)Lesson 5: Climate Trends and Variability (March 11)

Course 8433 ~ Why Don’t Kids Get It In Science? I’m Working So Hard!, Charlene Hutchins & Tom Hathornv Best Teaching Practices in Science Core Training

Dates: February 5, 19, & 26 Time: 4:15 – 6:35 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: Elk Plain, Room 5 Audience: Elem. Educators

Getting students to think, write and talk like scientists as they jump into inquiry science with FOSS kits has always been our goal…but is it working? What does that really look like in other teachers’ classrooms? Using Video Case Studies, participants will develop strategies to facilitate student discussions, draw out scientific reasoning and illuminate misconceptions. Walk away with tools you can implement immediately.

This course qualifies as a 2008-09 state funded Science Professional Development Day for science teachers of Grades 4, 5 and 6 and elementary science specialists. Teachers are eligible for one funded science day beginning August 2008 and ending June 2009.

Course 8442 ~ Making Learning More Visual, Engaging, and Accessible Using Technology, Lori Curtisv Instructional Technology Core Training for Role Appropriate Certificated Staff

Date: Saturday, February 7Time: 8:00-3:30 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: Spanaway Elementary, Library Audience: Certificated Educators

Technology surrounds us. Come learn how the technology you already have access to, and some you do not know about, can make a serious impact on your daily instruction, assessment, day-to-day communication, and parent-teacher conferences. Participants will learn advanced features and applications of their Lumens document camera and projector set, basics of PowerPoint, and enhanced concept mapping and virtual math manipulatives in Kidspiration 3. Participants will also learn to access, edit, and develop their SWIFT classroom webpage. Class limited to 30 Bethel participants.

Course 8389 ~ Right Response: Refresher, Right Response Instructor Team v Special Services and Crisis Responders Core Training

Dates: February 9 & 11Time: 4:15 – 7:45 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: Thompson Elementary, LibraryAudience: Certificated & Classified Staff Members Identified as a Crisis Responder and all Special Education Self-contained Educators

This course is the required annual review and re-certification for those who have already completed the initial 14-hour Secure/Right Response course. Revisit strategies to de-escalate problem behaviors and manage a crisis pro-actively. We will review techniques for keeping yourself and the acting-out person safe. Non-injurious restraint and transport techniques, and team crisis intervention strategies are included. Prevention, de-escalation, re-stabilization and post-intervention processes are practiced. The focus is that physical intervention only occurs when these processes have failed to protect the individual from harm.

Course 8443 ~ Revised Math Standards with Everyday Mathematics for Grades K-5, Katherine Hansen & Joan Batesv Best Teaching Practices for Mathematics Core Training for Elementary Educators Dates: February 11, 18 & 25

Time: 4:15 - 6:35 Clock Hours: 7 Location: Graham Elementary, Library Audience: Kindergarten – Fifth Grade Educators

Washington’s math standards have been revised! Join us to learn about the revised K-5 math standards and how these changes will impact your classroom. We will study the new organization of the standards, identify content specific to your grade level and discuss how these changes impact Everyday Math.

This course qualifies for the 2008-09 state funded math professional development day for teachers of grades 4 & 5. This is the required training for the state monies. Repeat of Summer Institute and October Inservice Day session. Teachers are allowed one funded day to be completed by June 2009.

Course 8435 ~ Arithmetic and Algorithms in Everyday Mathematics, Shelley Pratt v Everyday Mathematics Core Training

Dates: February 19 & 26 & March 5 & 12Time: 4:15 – 6:00 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: Naches Trail, Library Audience: Elem. Educators

This course will provide new and experienced users alike a clearer understanding of how Everyday Mathematics approaches computational algorithms and arithmetic operations. Algorithms will be taught and practiced. Questions such as when arithmetic is practiced in Everyday Math, why each “Focus Algorithm” was chosen, and how to encourage students to use algorithms will be addressed.

Course 8444 ~ Integrating Projects in PLTW Curriculum, Andrew Hill & Greg Rohrv Role specific Core Training for CTE

Dates & Times: Friday, February 20 (3:00 – 5:00) & Saturday, February 21 (8:00 – 3:00)Location: Spanaway Lake High School, Room 301 Clock Hours: 8 Audience: Project Lead the Way & STEM Instructors

You will have an opportunity to integrate projects into your PLTW curriculum. You will learn the fundamental principles of 3D parametric part design, assembly design, and creating production-ready part and assembly drawings using Autodesk Inventor. And specifically interfacing Autodesk Inventor derived drawings with our current equipment using Mastercam X software. Hands-on exercises representing real-world, industry-specific design scenarios are included.

Course 8445 ~ Helpful Entry Level Skills, Mary Fischer v Best Classroom Management Practices Core Training

Dates: Saturdays, February 21 & 28Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: Bethel Support Annex on Canyon Rd, Upstairs Conference RoomAudience: ECE and Kindergarten Educators

The Helpful Entry Level Skills are nonacademic, practical, everyday skills that children need when entering kindergarten. Originally identified by a national sample of Kindergarten teachers, they have been validated with Bethel School District’s Kindergarten teachers. The Helpful Entry Level Skills are divided into 5 skill clusters: Classroom rules, Classroom work skills, Social/behavioral skills, Self-management skills, and Communication skills. Participants will learn how to assess the skills, developmental expectations for 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-year olds for each skill, and strategies for teaching the skills to children with a wide range of abilities. Each classroom or program will receive a set of materials including 2 assessment forms, a Developmental Ages for Skills booklet, and an Instructional Strategies Manual. Class limited to 20 Bethel participants.

Course 8446 ~ Small Group Instruction with Houghton Mifflin, Traci Whitev Differentiated Practices or Houghton Mifflin Core Training

Dates: February 24, March 3 & 10Time: 4:15-6:35 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: Evergreen Elementary, Library Audience: Elem. Educators

*Bring the Teacher Manual for the theme you are currently teaching

Participants will explore strategies and techniques for using small/flexible group instruction with the Houghton Mifflin program. You will walk away with strategies for meeting the needs of individual learners and learn ways to organize and manage small groups. Included is looking at how to use Guided Reading strategies and the different pieces of the HM program to differentiate instruction and make the most of time spent with each small group. This course supports Response to Intervention.

Course 8447 ~ Managing Inquiry: Becoming Successful with Day–to-Day Operations, Dr. Lee Meadowsv Content Area Core Training for Secondary Science Educators

Dates & Times: Friday, February 27 (3:00 – 6:00) & Saturday, February 28 (8:00 – 3:00)Clock Hours: 9 Location: ESC, Board Room Audience: Sec. Science Educators

How do you teach via inquiry so that the class is structured and smooth, not chaotic and frustrating? This class is a “nuts and bolts” workshop focused on helping you better implement the mechanics of inquiry. The class will feature both opportunities for teacher-to-teacher sharing of ideas and input from an experienced user of inquiry. Topics to be addressed are managing group work, assessing inquiry, and debriefing lab experiences. The class is designed as a direct follow-up to August’s LASER Secondary Science Summit. It will build on the overview of inquiry given then and continue addressing participants’ concerns about training students for success in the inquiry environment, asking good questions, adapting curriculum to inquiry, and using concepts to guide students’ learning. Workshop supports key practices for HSTW & MMGW.

This course qualifies for the 2008-09 state funded science professional development days for secondary science teachers or may be taken as a Bethel Core Training. The three state funded professional development days must be completed by June 2009. Only one science offering will be provided at the June Institute.

Course 8390 ~ Right Response: Refresher, Right Response Instructor Team v Special Services & Crisis Responder Core Training

Dates: March 2 & 5Time: 4:15 – 7:45 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: Bethel Support Annex on Canyon Rd, Upstairs Conference Room Audience: Certificated & Classified Staff Members Identified as a Crisis Responder and all Special Education Self-contained Educators

This course is the required annual review and re-certification for those who have already completed the initial 14-hour Secure/Right Response course. Revisit strategies to de-escalate problem behaviors and manage a crisis pro-actively. We will review techniques for keeping yourself and the acting-out person safe. Non-injurious restraint and transport techniques, and team crisis intervention strategies are included. Prevention, de-escalation, re-stabilization and post-intervention processes are practiced. The focus is that physical intervention only occurs when these processes have failed to protect the individual from harm.

Course 8448 ~ The World of Web 2.0 & Podcasting, Tonya Narramorev Instructional Technology Core Training for Role Appropriate Certificated Staff

Dates: March 3, 10, 17, & 24Time: 3:00 - 4:45 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: ESC 3, Technology Lab Audience: Sec. Certificated Educators

By definition, Web 2.0 is the read/write web, where people interact with websites, not only receiving information, but also writing and sending it as well. In this course, participants will encounter many of the recently (and not so recently) developed Web 2.0 sites, providing a sense of how students are using the Internet today, thus giving you a chance to experience it as well. Participants will also learn how to create and use podcasting to motivate students in an exciting new way. Class limited to 15 Bethel participants.

Course 8449 ~ Standard First Aid and CPR, Ryan Kennedyv Qualifies for Self-Directed TRI

Dates: Wednesdays, March 4, 11 & 18 Time: 4:15 - 6:35 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: Graham-Kapowsin High School, Room 217 Audience: Certificated Educators Note: A $10.00 material and certification fee is due the first day of training.

This course focuses on infant, child, and adult CPR and first aid. This includes rescue breathing, first aid of choking, control of bleeding, care for muscle, bone, and joint injuries, sudden illness, and burns. To receive certification, participants must attend the entire day plus successfully complete both the written and practical skills exams. Use this opportunity to re-new your First Aid and CPR card. Registration required due to participant limits. Class limited to 15 Bethel participants.

Course 8450 ~ Child Abuse & Personal Safety Training, Dianne Breen & Jay Brower v Role Specific Core Training Social Workers & Counselors v Role Appropriate Core Training for Special Services & Specialty Areas

Dates: Thursdays, March 5, 12 & 19 Time: 4:15 – 7:45 p.m. Clock Hours: 10 or 1 Credit Location: Spanaway Elementary, Library Audience: Administrators, Certificated & Classified Staff

This course is designed to give educators a background in child abuse and neglect. Participants will learn signs, laws, procedures, and techniques for dealing with child abuse and neglect. This course meets the Issues of Abuse requirement for continuing certificates issued after August 31, 1992 (WAC 180-79-115). Class limited to 30 Bethel participants.

Course 8451 ~ Elementary Social Studies CBAs (Grades 3- 6), Stephanie Heathv Best Teaching Practices in Social Studies Core Training

Dates: March 10, 17 & 24Time: 4:15 - 6:35 Clock Hours: 7 Location: Thompson Elementary, Library Audience: Third – Sixth Grade Educators

Attend this nuts and bolts workshop where you will explore specific strategies for incorporating CBAs into your lessons, units and yearly plans. You will receive instructional ideas that support the implementation of these CBA models. The Social Studies GLEs will be reviewed and you will leave with a clearer, more specific picture of what knowledge, skills and concepts students need to know in civics, history, geography, economics and social studies skills.

Course 8452 ~ Social Thinking for the Elementary Classroom, Gretchen Mertesv Best Classroom Management Practices Core Training for Elementary, Special Services & Specialty Areas Educators

Dates: March 11, 18, & 19 Time: 4:15 – 6:35 p.m. Clock Hours: 7 Location: Bethel Support Annex on Canyon Rd., Upstairs Conference RoomAudience: Elem., Special Services & Specialty Area Educators

Many of our students have difficulty in the classroom because they simply don’t understand the “social rules” and the behavior expectations, even when we think they’ve been made very clear. Often, we think “he’s smart enough to know better” yet keeps missing the basic social and behavior cues. Under the desk, on the desk, or in the desk, these students are often easy to pick out of the crowd. This class will give a variety of strategies for the elementary classroom that are applicable and useful for all students and can be easily added to classroom routines and curriculum. Some school-wide strategies and ideas will also be discussed. Elementary administrators and counselors/social workers are encouraged to attend! This course supports Response to Intervention.

Courses Beginning in January

Courses Beginning in February

Courses Beginning in March

Course 8431 ~ Posting Classroom Content Online with Moodle

Course 8436 ~ Brush Up Your Classroom Management!

Course 8437 ~ Elementary Foss Variables Kit Training

Course 8432 ~ Managing the Everyday Math Curriculum

Course 8438 ~ Standards-Based Grading in the Secondary Classroom Using A, B, C, & I

Course 8439 ~ Utilizing Qwizdom in the Classroom (MAC version)

Course 8440 ~ Secondary Social Studies CBAs (Grades 7-12)

Course 8441 ~ Datastreme Weather and Water in the Earth System

Course 8433 ~ Why Don’t Kids Get It In Science? I’m Working So Hard!

Course 8442 ~ Making Learning More Visual, Engaging, and Accessible Using Technology

Course 8389 ~ Right Response: Refresher

Course 8443 ~ Revised Math Standards with Everyday Mathematics for Grades K-5

Course 8435 ~ Arithmetic and Algorithms in Everyday Mathematics

Course 8444 ~ Integrating Projects in PLTW Curriculum

Course 8445 ~ Helpful Entry Level Skills

Course 8446 ~ Small Group Instruction with Houghton Mifflin

Course 8447 ~ Managing Inquiry: Becoming Successful with Day–to-Day Operations

Course 8390 ~ Right Response: Refresher

Course 8448 ~ The World of Web 2.0 & Podcasting

Course 8449 ~ Standard First Aid and CPR

Course 8450 ~ Child Abuse & Personal Safety Training

Course 8451 ~ Elementary Social Studies CBAs (Grades 3- 6)

Course 8452 ~ Social Thinking for the Elementary Classroom