FREE WORKSHOP with
Innovative Best Instructional Strategies
The McKeel IBIS Project is a Florida Department of Education 6-12 Instructional Best Practices Dissemination grant awarded to McKeel Academy of Technology to provide new strategies to help teachers improve their results in the classroom by raising student performance in the areas of technology integration, writing, and literacy. Through a series of workshops and conferences across the state, teachers from McKeel Academy of Technology put innovative ideas in the hands of their fellow teachers and start a collaborative effort to support each other by sharing resources and experiences.
When
Friday, August 29, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM EST Registration starts at 8:30 AM. Lunch on your own.Add to Calendar
Contact
Susan Black/Melissa Borchers
McKeel Academy of Technology
863-287-7715 ibis@mckeelschools.com
What they've been saying...
Your workshop was one of the best I have attended. We are utilizing the material we learned in our classroom constantly. -- Dena
Thank you for the opportunity to attend. It provided me with the best teaching strategies I have seen in many years. I have been struggling with new ideas to teach writing and the session on sentence structures was just what I need to push forward with my lesson plans for this year. -- Bonnie
McKeel IBIS Workshop at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School
Join us for this Free Workshop hosted by St. Thomas Aqinas!
We will get you excited with ready-to-use resources in a unique interactive learning and networking experience that is the McKeel IBIS Project. See strategies in action with technology integration, writing, and literacy, proven to increase student performance across all subject areas. Let us share with you new, innovative data-driven instructional best practices ready to implement with your students. We want to help you increase student scores and raise school grades! All participants will receive a DOK Educator Wheel!
WORKSHOP SESSIONS INCLUDE ENGAGING PRESENTATIONS AND READY TO USE RESOURES FOCUSED ON TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION, READING AND WRITING:
*A Blueprint for Building Better Sentences -- Let us show you how a sentence structure can be a playground! Learn new, innovative and appealing methods to teach sentence types with an easy-to-use
sentence structure format that can be a playground. Engage and excite students not only for writing practice but also for grammar and sentence revision with special emphasis on the importance of variety in all styles of writing.
*Using 6 Word Memoirs as a Critical Thinking Tool -- Yes, you can do it in 6 words! Learn how to use the six-word memoir to teach and sharpen core content area skills of summarizing, identifying themes, analyzing the VIPs, and more. An effective tool for assessment, the six-word memoir technique can be used across all subject areas. In this session, you will learn how this tool as a springboard for creative stories and reflective writing.
*Technology Tools for the Classroom! -- This hands-on session is designed to reach both the technologically savvy and technologically challenged. You will create, explore and learn technology that will support the Florida standards no matter what you teach. Best of all, you will learn to use free programs and apps, and how to research beyond Google! Bring your own device to get started immediately!
*Data Driven Reading -- Go through an exciting journey through close reading! See best practices for implementing a reading lesson for Social Studies, Science and English-- engaging critical thinking with non-fiction readings, utilizing online activities that connect learners with each other and authentic experiences, interactive note taking, and chunking content for manageable delivery. Easy to follow ways to assess comprehension and ready to use tool!
*The Power of Math for Deeper Thinking - Targeting math (and science) teachers at all grade levels, participants will gain further knowledge of new math standatds providing examples and opportunities for teachers to work together with math/literacy activities. Participants will dig deeper into mathematical practices and what adminstrators should be looking for when they visit classrooms. Collaboratively, participants will work together to unpack standards and look at new assessment resources to gain further understanding Florida requirements.
Our PRESENTERS: Cathy Dyer, 6-12 Language Arts Teacher & Tampa Bay Area Writing Project Consultant, Dr. Linda Acocelli, Middle School AP & Math Professor and Melissa Borchers, 6-12 Reading & English Teacher & Lumens Representative
PLEASE REGISTER TODAY!
More Information
Have questions or want more information about the McKeel IBIS Project and our Workshops? Email us at ibis@mckeelschools.com or call Susan Black at 863.287.7715.