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WTU Fall 2010 Free Monthly PD Series: Listen. Share. Learn.

Welcome to the WTU Free Monthly Professional Development Series. This research-based program offers modules that address teaching and learning aspects of the classroom for both new and veteran teachers.  The module content and topics include scientific concepts in an array of topics from the AFT’s Strategies for Student Success (SSS) program and the AFT’s Educational Research and Dissemination (ER&D) program.  These modules are designed to be delivered in two hours, which creates a manageable method of connecting with educators.  The goals of this program are to offer quality professional learning and to strengthen institutions for teaching and learning. Join us every first Tuesday of this semester to Listen, Share, and Learn. 

DCPS/WTU Key PD Area: Pedagogy — Behavior Management

Session Title: Addressing Student Behavior and Anger in the Classroom, SSS (2 PLUs)

Location: WTU Office, Lower Level Conference Room 

Instructor: Leslie Charles, M.S.

Dates: Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 4:30pm — 6:30pm

Cost: FREE

DCPS Teaching and Learning Framework Alignment: TEACH 9

Participants contextualize social skills training for students and discover effective techniques to for teaching students how to manage anger.  Participants analyze two types of interventions and the steps required prior to designing an individual intervention strategy. In addition, participants engage in hands-on activities reflective of their own experiences while discovering how to use appropriate research-based models of intervention to address student behavior.  

DCPS/WTU Key PD Area: Content Knowledge —  Data and Assessment

Session Title: Constructing Effective Classroom Assessments, SSS (2 PLUs)

Location: WTU Office Lower Level Conference Room   

Instructor: Cynthia Henderson, Ph.D.

Dates: Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 4:30pm—6:30pm

Cost: FREE

DCPS Teaching and Learning Framework Alignment: TEACH 5

This session helps participants answer the question: “What should we consider when creating and administering classroom assessments?”  Participants discover and discuss the differences between appropriate uses of two types of classroom assessments ( formative and summative) and two main types of test items (selected response and constructed response). Plus, participants examine how to develop high quality assessments by integrating Formative Assessments in the classroom.

DCPS/WTU Key PD Area: Content Knowledge — Mathematics

Session Title: Thinking Mathematics I (ER&D): Ten Principles

Location: WTU Office, Lower Level Conference Room     

Instructor: Elizabeth Dortch, M.A.

Dates: Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 4:30pm — 6:30pm

Cost: FREE

DCPS Teaching & Learning Framework Alignment: TEACH 1-9

Participants acquire the research-base behind the Ten Principles of Thinking Mathematics.  Participants will be able to apply these principles to their teaching of mathematics and discover where Thinking Mathematics, ER&D is consistent with the national math Standards.     

** To register, see page 14 of the WTU Fall 2010 Professional Development brochure.

** For more information, email Dorothy Egbufor, Executive Director, WTU Office of Professional Development and Educational Issues at degbufor@wtulocal6.org.