Golden Triangle Cooperative
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008
June 26-July 31, 2008

All workshops will be held at the Hampton Inn
2301 14th Street SW Great Falls, Montana
406-453-2675 - Mention you are with the GTCC and get a discount on your room!
8:30-Noon—1 p.m.-5 p.m. 
Lunch is not provided
 

Pre-registration DEADLINE May 24, 2008

Registration Fees:

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June 26-27, 2008

Tech Toys 2

Jeredene Mayfield

Web 2.0, wiki, social bookmarking, social networking, blogs, podcasts, vcasts, social software, web cams, smart phones, text messaging, open source software. Want to learn what they are and how to use them in your classroom? A two day hands-on workshop playing (with the web-based tech toys).  Download and use GIMP (an open source graphic manipulator). Study the world around you using web-based tech toys and then let your students play.

Who Should Attend This Two Day Workshop?  K-12 Educators NEAR PROFICIENT, PROFICIENT and ADVANCED Computer Users

Participants need to bring their own wireless laptop.  8 laptops available—first come, first service.

July 8-9, 2008

DIBELS Advanced

Peggy Taylor & Shelly Wanty

Prerequisite:  DIBELS Essentials or Experience Administering DIBELS measures

DIBELS ADVANCED will help teachers and school personnel use the data and information from the DIBELS assessments to plan instruction and activities for the five “Big Ideas” of Reading.  Topics of Discussion: Tips for analyzing test booklets; DIBELS Survey; Progress Monitoring; Interventions; DIBELS questions and answer session, plus many more ideas about assessing and monitoring students’ reading.

Who Should Attend This Two Day Workshop?   K-6^th teachers, Reading Specialists, Title I personnel, Administration and any personnel using DIBELS

Please Bring:  Stopwatch; Calculator; DIBELS data from your grade or school to analyze and use for planning interventions, and a teacher’s edition from your Reading Series.

July 10-11, 2008

Effective Communications for Educators

Jane Rhodes

 This workshop is designed to provide participants with the interpersonal skills that will help them work effectively with others and become a more skillful communicator in classroom situations. These skills can be applied to interpersonal conflict, work planning, and areas that need problem solving. This course will also benefit anyone who must deal routinely with students who seem difficult.  It focuses on several types of difficult students, providing tips on recognizing and coping with them. The subtopics include: Effective Communication, Win/Win Communication, Male/Female Communication, and Working with Difficult Students.

Who Should Attend This Two Day Workshop?  K-12 Educators, Administrators, Paraprofessionals and Support Staff.

July 14-18

Quantum Learning: Brain-Based Learning

John LeTellier

Quantum Learning is an integrated model of teaching and learning that creates passionate teachers, engaging classrooms and meaningful content resulting in accelerated student achievement. It is the masterful orchestration of research-based strategies, along with the WHY behind them, that create the powerful results. Quantum Learning is a comprehensive approach to teaching that incorporates research, best practices, effective delivery methodology, classroom management techniques, strategies for student engagement, leadership models.

Who Should Attend This Five Day Workshop?  K-12 Educators, Administrators, Paraprofessionals and Support Staff.

Participants will receive:  a binder with page inserts to reference throughout the workshop.

July 21-22, 2008

Thinking Strategies for Mastering Math:  Workshop #1—Mastering the Basic Facts of Addition and Substraction by Mental Computation

Jane Haught

From research on how students learn mathematics, fluency with basic number combinations develops from knowing the meaning of the operations and a focus on thinking strategies.  (Thornton, NCTM, page 390; Issacs and Carroll, NCTM, page 386.)  With our engaging student workbook and hands on modeling methods for developing thinking strategies, your students will easily master the basic facts of addition and subtraction by the end of 2nd grade.

Concepts taught at this workshop are mapped to student expectations from Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, 2000, page 392.

Students will:

· represent the many conceptual meanings of addition and subtraction using physical models, drawings, mathematical notations, and real-world experiences;

· use numerical relationships and thinking strategies to master the basic facts by mental computation;

· easily and accurately evaluate multi-digit calculations.

Who Should Attend This Two Day Workshop?  K-3rd grade teachers and support staff.   Fourth and fifth grade teachers will also find this useful as the mathematical terminology and conceptual meaning of addition and subtraction provide the foundation for learning multiplication and division. 

Teachers will receive:  student dictionary with workbook, game book, classroom wallboards, dot cards

Please bring:    deck of cards, 2 inch 3-ring binder, black permanent marker, 50 unlined 3 by 5 cards, 5 self-sealing bags, 10 rubber bands, 25 popsicle sticks, paper clips, 10 tabbed dividers

July 23-24, 2008

Thinking Strategies for Mastering Math:  Workshop #2—Mastering the Basic Facts of Multiplication and Division by Mental Computation

Jane Haught

From research on how students learn mathematics, fluency with basic number combinations develops from knowing the meaning of the operations and a focus on thinking strategies.  (Thornton, NCTM, page 390; Issacs and Carroll, NCTM, page 386.)  With our modeling methods, the skill of visualization, and a student workbook that guides students through the learning process, mastery of the basic facts of multiplication and division will easily be achieved by all students by the end of 3rd grade.

Concepts taught at this workshop are mapped to student expectations from Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, 2000, page 392.

Students will:

· represent the many conceptual meanings of multiplication and division using physical models, drawings, mathematical notations,, and real-world experiences;

· represent various thinking strategies using physical models, drawings, and mathematical notations;

· compute fluently the basic facts of multiplication and division and evaluate multi-digit calculations.

Who Should Attend This Two Day Workshop?  2nd - 5th grade teachers and all support staff.  Kindergarten and 1st grade teachers are also encouraged to attend.

Teachers will receive:  student dictionary with workbook, game book, classroom wallboards

Please bring:    deck of cards, 2 inch 3-ring binder, black permanent marker, 50 unlined 3 by 5 cards, 5 self-sealing bags, 10 rubber bands, 25 popsicle sticks, paper clips

July 28-29, 2008

Indian Education for All:  Elementary Mathematics

Eula Monroe

This course should serve to help teachers begin to think about mathematics for Native and non-Native learners in ways that are both culturally appropriate and culturally responsive.

Indian Education for All—how does it apply to mathematics teaching and learning? In this course you will examine some opportunities for implementing Indian Education for All in authentic ways in the elementary mathematics classroom:

· Using Native (and non-Native) students’ cultural knowledge and ways of knowing in instructional planning,

· Developing mathematical tasks based on how Native cultures now use and historically have understood and used mathematics, and

· Applying the research base on Native American learning to classroom practice through learning basic principles of cognitively guided instruction (learning based on students’ ways of knowing).

Much of the instruction will be hands-on, involving you in elementary mathematics tasks that sample all mathematics content strands (Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2000) and support the goals of Indian Education for All.

Who Should Attend This Two Day Workshop?  K-6 Educators

Please bring:  your mathematics teacher’s edition for the grade level(s) you teach.

July 30-31, 2008

The Big 6:  Information Skills for Student Achievement

Robert Berkowitz

Developed by educators Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, the Big6 is the most widely-known and widely-used approach to teaching information and technology skills in the world. The Big6 is an information and technology literacy model and curriculum, implemented in thousands of schools - K through higher education. Some people call the Big6 an information problem-solving strategy because with the Big6, students are able to handle any problem, assignment, decision or task.

This two day workshop explores how educators can use the Big6 Approach in school libraries and classrooms by developing collaborative activities, lessons that involve problems to solve and decisions to make that motivate students to learn. In this workshop, participants study the Big6 - the theory and the approach - in detail and discover why so many educators have decided to use the Big6 Skills Approach in their school libraries and classrooms. The workshop presents practical strategies and resources so participants can realistically begin implementing the Big6.

NOTE:  Day 1 schedule will be 8:30-Noon and 1-5 p.m.  Day 2 schedule will be 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Who Should Attend This Two Day Workshop?  K-12 and Higher Education librarian media specialists, classroom teachers, technology specialists and administrators.

Each participant in the training program will receive a copy of The Definitive Big6™ Workshop Handbook, Third Edition. The cost of this handbook will be in addition to the registration fee.

Pre-registration DEADLINE May 24, 2008

It is important that you express interest in workshops during the pre-registration period. Need for a particular workshop is determined by your interest. A minimum of ten participants per workshop is needed.

Registration: Please submit registrations by June 20, 2008, to confirm your spot in the institute. Your paid registration will confirm your spot for sessions with limited space. Any registrations after June 20, 2008, will need to include payment.

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