DREAM Workshop with Susan Bosak
AETN presents the DREAM Workshop with Susan Bosak. Using her award-winning picture book, Dream: A Tale of Wonder, Wisdom & Wishes, educator and author Susan V. Bosak guides participants on a journey of discovery filled with ideas for student engagement. This workshop includes a 3-hour presentation of How to Teach Literacy Like a Dream as well as an author reading of the book.
After a review of the top ten findings from motivation research, Ms. Bosak shares classroom-tested lesson ideas using DREAM as a model. This professional development empowers teachers to engage students in examining their dreams for the future in an effort to set life goals and plan steps to accomplishment. Through literacy and art students find a new lens to view possibilities for themselves and the world.
Understanding Alternative Education in Arkansas
This course highlights successful Alternative Learning Environments (ALEs) across the state and the techniques and approaches that are used to reach struggling learners. Students are given the chance to voice their opinion on the experiences they have had in an ALE. The teachers and experts discuss a variety of topics, covering everything from student-teacher ratio to the advantages and disadvantages of hiring security guards.
The Journey to 21st Century Teaching and Learning - Understand the Learner
Who is the 21st century learner? How do they learn best? Before we can design 21st century classrooms, we need to understand the students who are sitting in them. In this course, we will explore how student learning needs have changed and what this means for classrooms.
The Journey to 21st Century Teaching and Learning - Understand the 4 Cs of 21st Century Learning
While the CCSS provide clear targets for what we want students to learn, the 4 Cs of 21st century learning – communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity - provide vehicles for mastering those targets. In this session, we will explore these 21st century skills that will equip students to meet the challenges of the future.
The Journey to 21st Century Teaching and Learning - Plan for 21st Century Learning
Thoughtful, intentional planning of instruction is key to making 21st century teaching and learning a reality. In this session, a model for planning instructional units that implement the CCSS and 21st century skills will be discussed.
The Journey to 21st Century Teaching and Learning - Use 21st Century Learning Tools and Resources
Selecting appropriate tools and resources for students to use in their learning is an important component of 21st century instruction. In this session, several sample tools will be shared, along with a process for effectively implementing them in the classroom.
Crystal Bridges: Arts Integration - Teaching from Works of Visual Arts
This course features Anne Kraybill, School Programs Manager at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and was recorded on location at the museum in June of 2012. Throughout the course, Ms. Kraybill demonstrates how to integrate art into language arts, visual arts, and social studies classrooms.
Educators from the aforementioned disciplines join Ms. Kraybill as she leads discussions of four different paintings, War News from Mexico by Richard Caton Woodville, Union Refugees by George Pettit, After the Flood by Joseph Paul Vorst, and Sacrifice by Romare Bearden. Ms. Kraybill suggests that educators take their own learning experiences and modify them to meet the needs of their students.
STEM Foundation One - Academic Language Proficiency
The Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) supports the Center on Instruction definition of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education as, "an interdisciplinary approach to learning where rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real-world lessons as students apply science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in contexts that make connections between school, community, work, and the global enterprise enabling the development of STEM literacy and with the ability to compete in the new economy."
ADE, in partnership with Teacher Created Materials (TCM), AETN, and ArkansasIDEAS, has developed an evidence-based classroom STEM education resource program to support educators in K-12 classrooms. These resources specifically focus on classroom-level instructional strategies, materials, and assessments. This program will directly assist teachers in learning practical, standards-based strategies that support the seven STEM Foundations.
Foundation One provides STEM educators with the tools they need to build students' vocabulary skills. It provides teachers with research-based instructional strategies to design lessons, learning experiences, and assessments. Materials for student-use focus on word attack skills (base words/roots, prefixes and suffixes) and vary by grade level.
STEM Foundation Two - Critical and Close Reading of Nonfiction Text
The Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) supports the Center on Instruction definition of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education as, "an interdisciplinary approach to learning where rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real-world lessons as students apply science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in contexts that make connections between school, community, work, and the global enterprise enabling the development of STEM literacy and with the ability to compete in the new economy."
ADE, in partnership with Teacher Created Materials (TCM), AETN, and ArkansasIDEAS, has developed an evidence-based classroom STEM education resource program to support educators in K-12 classrooms. These resources specifically focus on classroom-level instructional strategies, materials, and assessments. This program will directly assist teachers in learning practical, standards-based strategies that support the seven STEM Foundations.
Foundation Two investigates a variety of rich nonfiction readings from all content areas. STEM educators are given close reading strategies, graphic organizers, and digital resources to use in their classes. Differentiating instruction to meet the needs of all student learners is covered as well.
STEM Foundation Three - Writing Across the Content Areas
The Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) supports the Center on Instruction definition of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education as, "an interdisciplinary approach to learning where rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real-world lessons as students apply science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in contexts that make connections between school, community, work, and the global enterprise enabling the development of STEM literacy and with the ability to compete in the new economy."
ADE, in partnership with Teacher Created Materials (TCM), AETN, and ArkansasIDEAS, has developed an evidence-based classroom STEM education resource program to support educators in K-12 classrooms. These resources specifically focus on classroom-level instructional strategies, materials, and assessments. This program will directly assist teachers in learning practical, standards-based strategies that support the seven STEM Foundations.
In this foundation, STEM educators are provided with a supplementary writing program that targets writing across the curriculum (social sciences, science, mathematics and literature). It addresses genre-specific writing including nonfiction, expository and informative, persuasive and argumentative, fiction, and poetry.