Overview

=Overview= =NYS Assessment Scoring Trainings=

**//2010-2011 School Year//**
//Facilitated by Christine Cutler, Staff Development Specialist// //December 17,2010// Step Up To Writing is an effective, multisensory and structured approach to teaching writing strategies to improve all aspects of student literacy. Through explicit, direct teaching and modeling of the small steps and sub skills involved in develop writing skills, participants will learn several Step-Up strategies and apply them to their own writing workshops. Primary teachers will learn the basic color- coded approach to the structure as well as ways to support students as they compose sentences, acquire vocabulary and plan for paragraph writing. For registration information,[|click here].
 * Step-Up to Writing 6-12: A Scaffold Approach to Expository Writing**

//Facilitated by Theresa Gray, Coordinator// //January 26,2010// Step Up to Writing is a writing program of practical strategies for reading, writing, listening and speaking. Adopted by many districts in the region, this workshop will take the components of the program and teach them in the setting of a social studies classroom. Participants do not need previous training in Step Up to Writing to attend. For registration information, click here.
 * Step Up to Writing in Social Studies**

//Facilitated by Christine Cutler, Staff Development Specialist// //October 13,2010// Would you like to differentiate instruction in your classroom? Teach children in small groups? Confer individually with students and do all of this while the rest of your class is fully engaged in independent reading and writing activities? This is it! The Daily Five is a literacy structure that allows for differentiation in the classroom and provides consistency. It is an integrated literacy instruction and classroom management system for use in reading and writing workshops and uses a systemic approach to literacy tasks that teach students independence! For registration information,[|click here.]
 * The Daily Five: Differentiated Literacy Blocks**

//Facilitated by Kimberlee Texter, Staff Development Specialist// //November 2,2010// Finally got your SMART Board and now you don’t know what to do with it? This workshop will take Model Schools participants step-by-step through the tool bar and gallery as well as essentials for educators. For registration information, [|click here.]
 * Beginning SMART Board Training**

//Facilitated by Candi Di Biase, Staff Development Specialist// //February 1,2011 and February 8,2011// Interested in increasing student interest, and accountability? This two day workshop will focus on examining components of a unit or project you would like to improve. Various methods of formative assessment will be modeled. Time will be provided to create a template to guide student learning, and promote self assessment. [|click here]
 * Designing and Implementing Formative Assessments**

//Facilitated by Theresa Gray, Coordinator// //February 2,2011// Using Thoughtful Education’s Word Works approach to vocabulary, participants will learn strategies to embed explicit vocabulary instruction into their practice. For registration information, click here.
 * Cracking Vocabulary’s CODE in Social Studies**

//Facilitated by Theresa Gray, Coordinator// //February 7, 2011// Making good notes is essential to academic success in the secondary classroom. But how to we help students to do this? Notemaking is an active process that requires students to identify important details, analyze big ideas, raise questions, note personal reactions and make connections to their prior knowledge and experience. For registration information, click here.
 * From Note-Taking to Note-Making**

//Facilitated by Kimberlee Texter, Staff Development Specialist// //February 15,2011// How do you know if your students understand the new concept you just taught them? How am I going to grade all of this homework? What is an easy way for me to get data on my students? All of these questions can be answered with one word: CLICKERS! For registration information, [|click here.]
 * Using the Senteo Smart Response System to Create Assessments**

//Facilitated by Theresa Gray, Coordinator// //March 21,2011// Learning to work cooperatively and collaboratively is an important 21st Century skill. Cooperative learning, an instructional strategy that simultaneously addresses the academic and social needs of students, provides a framework to teach students interdependence and independence needed for future success. For registration information, click here.
 * Cooperative Learning in Social Studies**

//Facilitated by Theresa Gray, Coordinator// //March 24,2011// Comparative thinking is a critical thinking skill that is essential and according to Marzano, the single most effective way to raise student achievement. Participants will develop strategies to integrate comparative thinking into their instruction. For registration information, click here.
 * Comparative Thinking to Strengthen Student Learning**