Training
Upcoming Events
June 2013
DIY for the Classroom: Cool, Calm, & Collected: Teaching Students Self-Regulation
Region 1: June 5, 2013 4:00pm-6:00pm VCU T/TAC Richmond
Region 8: June 19, 2013 4:00pm-6:00pm VCU T/TAC Blackstone Office
Cost: $5.00 "I just get so angry!" and "I want to behave but I just loose control sometimes" are phrases that you may have heard before. Self-regulation enables students to control their emotions and behavior, interact positively with others, and engage in independent learning. This session will provide teachers with strategies to support the development of self-regulation. Participants will explore effective teacher behaviors, behavior management techniques, and strategies for enhancing peer interactions and children's interest in self-directed learning.
July 2013
The Math and Literacy Connection
or
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
T/TAC at VCU Richmond Office
http://www.cvent.com/d/rcqblx
Cost: $15.00 Reading aloud to children provides many opportunities for initially exposing and later reinforcing preschool math concepts. This workshop will focus on teaching strategies for incorporating math experiences with picture books for children. Each participant will leave with one teacher-made book. Target Audience: Teachers of children ages 2 1/2-5 years.
Technology Tuesday
https://www.vcu.edu/ttac/training_opportunities.html
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
1pm-4pm
VCU T/TAC Richmond Office
LoTTIE Kits-Low Tech Tools for Inclusive Education
Cost:$5.00 Low tech tools might just be the answer for some of your students; greatest challenges. Determining the assistive technology a student needs begins with low tech toolkit full of materials you can use to support your students in the area of literacy, numeracy and organization. Learn how to use these tools in a hands-on three-hour workshop- and you'll be ready to assess your students' needs and make decisions about the appropriate selection and use of low tech materials.
DIY for the Classroom: Increasing Academic Achievement through Student Engagement
https://www.cvent.com/d/bcqw9l/4w
Region 1: Wednesday, July 17, 2013
2:00pm-4:00pm
VCU T/TAC Richmond
or
2:00pm-4:00pm
VCU T/TAC Blackstone Office
Cost: $5.00 They just want to sit and talk to each other! What to do? This session will provide a variety of instructional strategies to keep your students actively engaged. Participants will learn how to use students' desire to interact with each other to the teacher's advantage. Resources and strategies for developing and implementing cooperative groups will be discussed.
Flexible Grouping in the Secondary Classroom: No Chaos!
http://www.cvent.com/d/vcq6d5
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
9:00am-3:00pm
VCU-Oliver Hall 1015 West Main Street (Workshop Full)
Cost: $5.00 In order to differentiate instruction teachers must be skilled in flexible grouping. This is a difficult skill to master. Come learn and practice in a relaxed, fun environment. Target Audience: Educators who work in grades 6-12 or pre-service teachers who plan to teach secondary.
Visual Learning for the Secondary Classroom
http://www.cvent.com/d/4cqblr
Thursday, July 18, 2013
9:00am-12:00pm
VCU T/TAC Blackstone Office
or
Thursday, July 25, 2013
9:00am-12:00pm
VCU T/TAC Richmond Office
Cost: $5.00 Do you have any students who have difficulty reading across the content areas? Come to our Visual Learning Make-It-Take-It workshop and learn how to create visuals to support students with reading difficulties but, you will take away classroom materials for free. Target Audience: All general, special education and technical education (CTE) teachers who teach grades 8-12.
"Got Problem Behavior?"
http://www.cvent.com/d/8cq644
Thursday, July 18, 2013
1:00pm-4:00pm
VCU T/TAC Richmond Office (Workshop Full)
or
Thursday, August 1, 2013
9:00am-1:00pm
VCU T/TAC Richmond Office (Workshop Full)
Cost: $5.00 "Got Problem Behavior?" This session will explore proactive and preventative practices to decrease the likelihood of problem behaviors occurring in the classroom. Participants will also identify practical interventions and strategies to implement once challenging behaviors occur. Target Audience: Educators K-12
Technology Tuesday
https://www.vcu.edu/ttac/training_opportunities.html
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
1:00pm-4:00pm
VCU T/TAC Richmond Office
Overview of Assistive Technology Consideration and Tools
Cost: $5.00 Practice using a range of AT decision-making tools, including the TechMatrix, SETT framework, AIM Navigator, AT Consideration Guide, and "Hey! Can I try that?" We'll explore each one and send you on your way with everything you need to share with your colleagues.
Let's Build a Foundation for Reading
http://www.cvent.com/d/jcqbjk
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
8:30am-4:00pm
VCU Student Commons (Virginia Room) 907 Floyd Ave
Cost: $35.00 Experience the LETRS Module 7, Teaching Phonics, Word Study, and the Alphabetic Principle. This module explores the use of effective, systematic, phonics instruction. Participants will learn: the sequence and substances of concept development in code-based instruction; the importance of applying learned skills to reading and writing; the answers to commons questions, including, "How Much Phonics?" and "What Kind of Phonics?" Target Audience: General educators and special educators, grade K-3
Concept Anchoring Routine
http://www.cvent.com/d/6cq6cy
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
9:30am- 12:30pm
Twin Hickory Library (Workshop Full)
Cost: $15.00 The Concept Anchoring Routine is used to introduce and anchor a new concept that is already familiar to students. In research studies with students in secondary science and social studies classes, high-achieving, average achieving, and low-achieving students (including those with learning disabilities) who had been taught with the Anchoring Routine answered more test questions correctly than those students who had not received the routine instruction. Students with LD taught with the Anchoring Routine scored an average of 25 percentage points higher than thos who were not taught with the routine. Low-achieving, average-achieving, and high-achieving students taught with the Anchoring Routine scored averages of 27, 19 and 7 percentage points higher than their respective groups that were not taught with the routine.
Target Audience: Teachers in Grades 6 - 12
Unit Organizer Routine
http://www.cvent.com/d/7cq6cj
Thursday, July 25, 2013
10:30am-1:30pm
Hopewell's Maude Longhorne Nelson Library
Cost: $15.00 The Unit Organizer Routine is used to plan units and then introduce and maintain the big ideas in units and show how units, critical information and concepts are related. Research results showed that when teachers used the Unit Organizer Routine, understanding and retention of the information by low-achieving students, students with learning disabilities, and average-achieving students improved substantially over baseline as reflected in unit test scores and in scores on unit content maps an explanations of these maps. Students of teachers who used the Unit Organizer Routine regularly and consistently scored an average of 15 percentage points higher on unit tests than students of teachers who used it only irregularly. Target Audience: Teachers in grades 6 - 12
Tutor Scripts to Talking Sticks: A Day of Make-and-Take Tools
http://www.cvent.com/d/9cq6t0/4W
Monday, July 29, 2013
9:00am-4:00pm
VCU T/TAC Richmond Office
Cost: $15.00 Throughout the day we will explore 100 quick and easy ways to differentiate instruction! This fun filled day will include a time to make and take items and activities featured in the book "From Tutor Scripts to Talking Sticks." This session will be packed with teacher-designed, kid-tested adaptation ideas like fidget bags, doddle notes, and choice boards. This session will leave you with many ideas for helping students who need extra support, scaffolding, reminders, organization, or enrichment. These ready-to-use, research-based adaptions enhance motivation and improve achievement for ALL CHILDREN! Everyone in the classroom will benefit from these ultra-practical strategies! Target Audience: Special Educators, General Educators, Paraprofessionals, Parents, and Related Service Providers.
Technology Tuesday
https://www.vcu.edu/ttac/training_opportunities.html
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
1:00pm-4:00pm
VCU T/TAC Richmond Office
Accessible Instructional Materials-Virginia (AIM-VA)
Cost: $5.00 Did you know that students in Virginia who meet the criteria for having a print disability and have IEPs or 504 plans have access to free accessible instructional materials through Accessible Instructional Materials of Virginia (AIM-VA)? Come learn who qualifies, what types of educational materials are available and how to get them. Learn about Bookstream, a system that provides immediate access to these materials. AIM-VA might be the solution you are looking for to support your students struggling with reading. Free or inexpensive read-about software both builds student independence and reduces the need for adult to spend time reading text to students. We'll help you see solutions for your setting and have fun exploring new tools.