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 help schools improve their results in the classroom by raising student performance in the areas of technology integration, reading and writing. 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
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM EST Registration starts at 8:30 AM. Lunch on your own.Add to Calendar
Where
Governors Charter Academy
4351 Mahan Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32317 850-391-5259
Driving Directions
Contact
Susan Black/Melissa Jenkins
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 in Tallahassee
Join us for this Free Workshop!
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, reading and writing, proven to increase student performance. Let us share with you new, innovative 6-12 instructional best practices ready to implement with your students. We want to help you increase student scores and raise school grades!
ENGAGING AND ENERGIZING P.D. FOR TEACHER BY TEACHERS -- Teachers (from district, charter and private schools) are invited to connect with McKeel Academy of Technology teachers for a unique interactive learning and networking experience. It starts with attending one of the McKeel IBIS Project Workshops including this one with our partner Governors Charter Academy. Our teachers will demonstrate new, innovative ideas to engage students in technology integration and literacy. Funded through a Florida Department of Education Instructional Best Instructional Practices Grant, these free workshops provide ready to use resources, hands-on lessons, and a look at successful classroom strategies. The focus is on helping teachers see learning gains in the areas of reading and writing for their students, and using technology in new and exciting ways. Attending a workshop is where the networking and collaborations begin for participants and trainers!
Plus additional resources for struggling 6-12 charter schools with state grades of C or below -- Free Lumens Ladibug Document Cameras for participating in the workshop! ($300 value)
WORKSHOP SESSIONS INCLUDE ENGAGING PRESENTATIONS AND READY TO USE RESOURCES FOCUSED ON TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION, READING AND WRITING:
Sessions planned for this Workshop:
*Using 6 Word Memoirs as a Critical Thinking Tool -- Are you looking for ways to challenge your students to summarize, find theme, and analyze key people and processes in your curriculum? Six Word Memoirs can help you accomplish these and more. Use them for a starting point for written response and you can easliy assess student understanding while satisfying the new Florida writing standards, which are cross curricular. The six-word format provides a laser-tuned focus for the students as they write and the process helps them create detailed, evidence-based elaborations.
*Not a Reading Teacher?! -- Are you not a reading teacher but have to teach reading? Do you need ideas for taking a passage to a deeper level? This session takes one reading passage and navigates you through questioning, incorporating technolgy and comparisons to teach reading for content. Participants will receive a Depth of Knowledge Educator's Wheel and learn how to use it with your students!
*Technology Shootout! -- Crazier than the Wild West! This session will move fast and furious through different apps you can use in the classroom. Even if you are technologically shy, we guarantee you will find your new favorite app in all the fury!
*Make Mine Rocky Road – Using Word Choice to Flavor Your Writing -- What are ‘vanilla’ and ‘rocky road’ words? Let us share the recipe for identifying and applying vivid and sophisticated word choice to enhance writing. Using a variety of fiction and non-fiction mentor text, group discussion, and activities will demonstrate using the right word and boosting the flavor of a summary plus other ways students can apply flavor to their writing.
PLUS SEE THE STRATEGIES IN ACTION WITH HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES!
Our PRESENTERS: Elvira Randall, 6-12 English Teacher & Tampa Bay Area Writing Project Consultant, Cathy Dyer, 6-12 Language Arts Teacher & Tampa Bay Area Writing Project Consultant and Melissa Jenkins, 6-12 Reading & English Teacher & Lumens Representative
WORKSHOP SPOTS ARE LIMITED ~ REGISTER EARLY TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT!
If event is CLOSED, please select another workshop date and we will continue to add more dates.
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.