Professional Development Instructional Consultants Growing Professional Efficacy
Grow the skills of your new, marginal, and alternative-certified teachers by putting highly-qualified, local, master teachers in your classrooms for several months to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, side-by-side with your struggling teachers. They speak your teachers’ language, they understand your schools’ culture and climate, they know your state and district standards... and they
get results.
Mentor
Instructional Consultants enter your teachers’ classrooms with an open heart and an extra pair of hands. Job #1 is to build a bridge of trust as a critical friend, sharing insight from their rich experiences as a master teacher. Establishing this environment is a fundamental requirement for success and helps develop collaborative pathways with colleagues to better communicate your school’s mission.
Coach
Instructional Consultants co-teach, model-teach, and offer guidance and direction in the science, art, and heart of instructional best practices. During planning periods, they develop classroom management procedures and routines, and help design standards-based lessons with modality-engaging activities that align to the students’ data-driven learning plans. The result? Better student attendance, more time-on task, and a learning environment of
high expectations.
Tutor
Instructional Consultants use the arts to connect the data to students’ talent, engaging struggling students with right-brain activities to build higher-order thinking skills. Activities like readers’ theater and role-playing help increase fluency in reading skills, while ELL word walls or musical pantomime develop writing skills with tone and voice. Tutoring via students’ talents in a point-in-time intervention climate enriches the learning environment for all students.
Professional Development Seminars Seminars Grow With Your Needs
Just as your teachers adapt their instruction to changing student learning needs, so do our seminars adapt to the evolving needs of participants. By keeping the agenda for each session flexible, we meet participants exactly where they are and deliver the learning they need at that moment. The result? Deeper learning, stronger interest, better teachers.
Helping Teachers Become Better Teachers
Motivate functional schools to become the benchmark —the Model Schools others follow. Seminars build an environment of continuous improvement through relevant, inspiring professional development. Witness dynamic growth as your teachers embrace practices to endorse cultural diversity, promote technology, and infuse the arts among all students.
One Seminar = Many Sessions
Each seminar consists of 4-10 individual sessions, spread throughout the year, that lay a foundation and build a common theme. Rather than one day of training that quickly evaporates after the session has ended, ongoing professional development lets teachers implement and refine what they learned, growing those skills in subsequent sessions.
Seminars Data Analysis & Collaborative Planning I & II
Uses your data to discover and address gaps in curriculum, instruction, and assessment. You will create action plans to align the instructional process, identify specific student learning needs, investigate point-in-time intervention strategies, associate differentiated activities with learning for all students, and explore the continuous improvement cycle with the student as the customer.
Collaborative, Data-driven Leadership
Equip school administrators to lead through influence instead of authority. They will focus on observation and supervisory protocols for communicating with teachers; consensus building among staff; collaboration for transparency in mission and goals; involving students in data-driven feedback; assessing professional learning communities in their schools; and methods of
celebrating progress.
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