If you wish to earn Inservice Credit, register for these and other training opportunities with the PAEC's electronic Professional Development Center (ePDC).

Online Resources for "Tuesday Teacher Training"

• Tuesday Teacher Training: Brain Compatible Instruction Ensures Student Success   (feb 2004)
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  This course provides a brief review of the anatomy and physiology of the human brain, explores the relationship between learning and an emotionally safe environment, and describes key elements of programs designed to enrich the learner’s brain. Additionally, educators have the opportunity to observe teachers in their own classrooms modeling brain compatible instruction and brain compatible classrooms. These teachers provide excellent examples of what things can be done in the classroom to enhance learning and improve the achievement of all learners. Educators will then apply the strategies to develop a brain compatible classroom and a series of "brain compatible" lessons and evaluate the impact on student achievement.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Communication   (feb 2003)
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  This program is excellent for those who are new to the teaching profession, as well as for seasoned veterans. Panelists Dr. Randy Sprick, Dr. Karyn Combs, Dr. Anita Archer, and Eva Laurich provide practical advice grounded in research as they address basic guidelines for establishing classroom routines and for engaging in positive interactions with students. Participants have the opportunity to visit Cherokee Elementary School where both effective and ineffective practices are modeled.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Critical Thinking: Preparing Students for Life   (jan 2004)
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  Join us as experts in the field of education; Dr. Edward Wright, Dean of the FSU Panama City Campus, Dr. Ken Shaw, Associate Dean of Academic Programs at FSU Panama City Campus, and Debbie Bush a high performing teacher at Kate Smith Elementary School in Chipley, Florida discuss the importance of providing opportunities that foster the development of critical thinking skills in students. This program highlights what should be happening in all classrooms as educators prepare students for the higher cognitive levels required by the real world.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Differentiated Instruction   (apr 2005)
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10 (Available for Endorsement Credit)
  This highly informative program will provide the target audience with information regarding the philosophical underpinnings and current research that support differentiated instruction as a means of crafting the classroom to meet the needs of our increasingly diverse student populations. Participants will have an opportunity to visit a differentiated fourth grade classroom at Bonifay Elementary School, a high-performing school for the past four years. Teachers in the fourth grade class will model strategies that may be employed to foster achievement in vocabulary, reading comprehension and various other core content areas.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Differentiation: Evaluation and Assessment
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  Dr. Oropallo clearly delineates the alignment that should exist among the curriculum that is written, taught and tested in this episode of Tuesday Teacher Training. The content also details how to effectively build the infrastructure for the assessment process in a differentiated classroom; where students become partners, not outsiders in the assessment process.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Differentiation: It's Personal
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  This online course explores how teachers may utilize student learning styles and multiple intelligences as means for differentiating learning. An overview of the principles of learning styles and multiple intelligences is provided. Supporting video segments illustrate collegial planning conversations and instruction that take these into consideration.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Differentiation: Learning Activities
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  This Tuesday Teacher Training program offers educators a critical look at the importance of learning stations or centers, anchor activities and homework assignments. Dr. Kathleen Oropallo helps teachers learn how to make these activities meaningful in order to provide rigorous and relevant opportunities for differentiated learners.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Differentiation: Principles of Differentiated Instruction
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  Kathleen Oropallo, Ph.D. takes the lead as the "nuts and bolts" of differentiation are examined in this episode of Tuesday Teacher Training. What is differentiated instruction? What prerequisite processes and procedures are necessary for managing a differentiated classroom? What are the essential questions that must be asked in order to identify varying levels of student ability, differences in content understanding and learning preferences? What are tiered activities and how are they developed? All of these important questions are addressed in this Tuesday Teacher Training video and the accompanying online course.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Differentiation: Using Data to Differentiate Instruction
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  This practical course addresses how student data is used to differentiate reading instruction. Video clips showing reading coaches and skilled teachers asking critical questions, setting skill targets and forming flexible reading groups based on excellent data sources are incorporated into this excellent professional development opportunity.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Effective Learning Environment
  Course Tuition: $35 for non-member districts; free to member districts - Inservice Points: 10
  Am I intentionally inviting to myself and others? Does everyone at my school purposefully invite students, colleagues, parents and those in the extended community outside the school to become an active part of the school community? Is the overall environment one that invites all students to achieve? In this course based on the Tuesday Teacher Training series, Effective Learning Environment...Invitation to Achievement, Dr. William Purkey’s Invitational Education Framework will be used to develop a schema for intentionally inviting student success. Participants will become aware of the four cornerstones common to inviting schools: trust, respect, optimism and intentionality and will reflect on teaching practices that provide positive intentional invitations – those leading to a positive classroom and school culture for student success. Join us as we visit the campuses of two schools, Sneads Elementary School and Wakulla Middle School, both, well-known in their communities for creating intentional invitations and high-levels of student academic achievement.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Effective Learning Environment-Exemplary Teacher Leadership:Means of Increasing Student Achievement
  Course Tuition: $35 for non-member districts; free to member districts - Inservice Points: 10
  An exemplary classroom leader coordinates a supportive relational environment, facilitates connections between people and builds a working team. Furthermore, the classroom leader skillfully deals with the emotions of others through modeling, respecting, responding and building relationships. Viewers will gain insight into the various roles effective leaders must assume: resistance-melter, relationship-coordinator, real-person, responsible-adult, respect-giver, rapport-builder and reframer.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Erase the Fear When Parents are Near
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  Dealing effectively with the parents of students sometimes requires teachers to tap deeply into their professional skills “toolbox.” In this program, Ron Walker shares research-proven, practical strategies that educators may use when dealing with parents so that the ultimate goal, that of helping the child, is met in a positive way. Program content fosters improvement of teacher conferencing skills, and also addresses means for increasing involvement of parents in the school’s educational activities. A review of the research that evaluates the impact of parent involvement on student achievement is also provided. This program is one that will benefit all teachers and administrators regardless of their amount of experience.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Examining Assessment for Unique Populations
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  This content-rich program focuses on research-evidenced best practices regarding instructional strategies and assessments in the area of reading. The classroom modeling takes place at San Jose Elementary School, an ESOL center in Duval County, Florida, where there is tremendous linguistic diversity among the student population. However, this is not merely a program about ELL students; the instructional and assessment strategies demonstrated are important for all who teach reading. In the program Dr. Kathy Oropallo asks critical questions that delve into what is proven to work, not only with ELL students, but with all students who are learning to read. Join us to hear the story of how Jacksonville, Florida is affected when trouble is brewing in any corner of our world, view intriguing classroom footage and listen to discussions pertaining to data interpretation and identification of instructional strategies that target specific skills. Additionally, valuable information is provided on modifications and accommodations, alternate versus alternative assessment, and Florida's Good Cause Exemption.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Fluency and How it is Addressed
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  In this engaging professional development activity, Kathleen Oropallo, Ph.D. differentiates between assessing and teaching fluency . A wealth of practical information is provided to help participants implement numerous different activities to help their students become fluent readers. Participants are also afforded the opportunity to view best practices in fluency instruction being modeled at grades 2, 4, 7, and 9 in exemplary schools.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: It Can Happen Here   (feb 2000)
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  The past few years have taught educators some hard lessons about the safety of our schools. In order to ensure that our schools are safe havens, educators must now face the reality of planning for preventing violence, or planning to react quickly and efficiently to violence. However unpleasant these options are, all teachers must be prepared. In this training, teachers will learn how to identify potential problems and to determine warning signs. In addition, teachers will identify effective behaviors that can help dangerous situations to be avoided and learn the most essential steps to take in the event that a violent act occurs. This is one lesson no one hopes to need, but also one that teachers cannot afford to be without.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Maintaining Momentum...Critical Strategies for Every Teacher   (apr 2004)
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 20
  Tuesday Teacher Training - Maintaining Momentum: Critical Strategies for Every Teacher How can you meet the challenges that strike at the end of the school year, while teaching each student at his or her level? Tune in to Maintaining Momentum: Critical Strategies for Every Teacher. You’ll see how the latest technology can help keep kids focused and motivated throughout the school year. We'll discuss Universal Design for Learning, Differentiated Instruction, Inclusion and the support that technology can provide to each of these critical strategies. The concept of Universal Design for Learning is the intersection where all our initiatives--integrated units, multi-sensory teaching, multiple intelligences, differentiated instruction, use of computers in schools, performance-based assessment, and others--come together. Donna Palley Special Education Coordinator/technology Specialist Concord, New Hampshire School System
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Mapping Makes Sense   (may 2004)
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  Heidi Hays Jacobs, a national presenter on curriculum mapping, discusses the procedure of mapping curriculum as well as the benefits a district can expect. Her extensive experience across the nation provides an informed view of the power of mapping.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: No Child Left Behind   (jan 2005)
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  This highly informative and up-to-date program recaps the rationale for implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, compares NCLB to earlier legislation, and discusses how it is currently impacting districts and schools in the state of Florida. The program also addresses the requirements for meeting adequate yearly progress, the penalties that may be imposed for failure to do so, and state resources available to teachers as they work with students toward the ultimate goal of 100% proficiency. Additionally, updated state legislation and interpretation regarding the requirements for meeting Highly Qualified Teacher status under NCLB are addressed. Teachers are also provided the opportunity to utilize the PAEC interactive electronic tool for determining their Highly Qualified Teacher status if they haven’t done so already.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: One Size Does Not Fit All!
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  Classroom teachers from various grade levels will demonstrate instructional methods and strategies they use in their classrooms to help promote the intellectual, personal, and social development of all of their students. The major concepts that will be discussed and explored will center around learning theories, including Universal Design and Differentiated Instruction. Guest speakers on these topics will be: Bob Jewett, M.Ed., associate with Stetson & Associates, Inc., Debby Houston, Ph.D Research Associates for the Center For Performance Technology and Glenda Delmar, M.S., FDLRS/PAEC Consultant.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Patterns to Symbols: Improving Algebraic Thinking   (oct 2004)
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  Algebraic thinking consistently appears as an area of weakness in mathematics FCAT data. This program will provide teachers additional strategies to assist in strengthening this area. Guests will address engaging learners from the very young to high school and beyond in algebraic thinking.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Planning for Differentiation
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  Tuesday Teacher Training: Planning for Differentiation will lead participants through a careful examination of the tools and decision making processes necessary for effective planning of differentiated instruction. Participants will learn to develop essential questions and plan instruction, based on those questions, to foster learning experiences that are challenging and result in enduring understandings for every student.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Professionalism Through Integrity--and You   (apr 2003)
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  A practical, common-sense approach to understanding the educator's obligation to students, the public and the educational profession through the use of The Code of Ethics and The Principles of Professional Conduct is demonstrated in this program.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Reading Across the Content Area, Its Just Different
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  Teaching reading at the secondary level often falls to the language arts teacher or to the lone reading teacher in a school. Studies show that schools in which all content area teachers provide reading instruction are more successful in increasing student achievement.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  Master educators provide strategies that are research based to be used to foster vocabulary mastery. Whether the goal is to develop rich content-specific vocabulary or to add new vocabulary words to make up for deficiencies in vocabulary, teachers in any classroom will find useful strategies that they may use. The video embedded in this course uses footage from the USDOE’s Teacher to Teacher Initiative and from classroom modeling. Comments from a practical perspective are provided by panelists both of whom are veteran educators; Dr. Bobbie Dawson, who is currently serving as a principal and Karen Odom an educator with teaching experience that spans all grade levels.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Technology Tools for Students with Special Needs: Books in the Digital Age
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  What special tools are available to help students with special needs improve literacy skills? Join us as two highly regarded experts in the field of assistive technology, Dr. Dave Edyburn and David Davis answer this question. During this episode of Tuesday Teacher Training, the viewer may expect to explore available technology designed to support and engage students as they write, share, and read books. Dr. Edyburn, an Associate Professor in the Department of Exceptional Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is the author of more than 100 articles and book chapters on assistive and instructional technology. He is also a co-editor of the recently published book, Handbook of Special Education Technology Research and Practice. Dr. Edyburn’s academic interests focus on how technology may be used to enhance teaching, learning, and performance. David Davis is the Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resource System Instructional Technology Statewide Project Coordinator. David has a wealth of experience in identification and appropriate use of technologies to access, retrieve, demonstrate, problem solve, and present information and concepts through distance learning, on-line services, telecommunications, remote access, digital presentations, videoconferencing, and virtual simulations.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: The Complexities of Reading to Learn
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  This is a "must see" program for all middle and secondary content area teachers. Dr. Kathy Oropallo demonstrates how teachers can help students recognize organizational structures in content area textbooks and shares techniques to help them interpret graphic displays. This Tuesday Teacher Training features video clips of content teachers modeling instructional practices used to facilitate student ownership of strategies needed for accessing content area texts.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: The Learning Environment, Making Space Work
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10
  This informative Tuesday Teacher Training addresses the learning environment, specifically the issue of classroom arrangement and its relationship to overall teacher effectiveness. Veteran teachers give expert advice regarding optimal classroom arrangement and one classroom receives a makeover, illustrating that although classroom arrangement may be a major obstacle to teacher effectiveness, it is one of the easiest to overcome. As an added bonus, teachers will have the opportunity to tour several classrooms where effective designs are modeled and each teacher explains how his/her classroom arrangement facilitates student achievement.
  
  
• Tuesday Teacher Training: Using Reading Assessments to Inform Instruction   (oct 2003)
  Course Tuition: $35 (free for PAEC member districts) - Inservice Points: 10 (Available for Endorsement Credit)
  This course, an introduction to reading assessment, affords the opportunity for educators to observe pre-service teachers administering reading assessments and working collegially to plan instruction based on the assessment data. Dr. Charlotte Boling, a reading instructor at University of West Florida and Ellen Marsh, a veteran elementary teacher and reading coach add their expertise on what information may be gained from various reading assessments and how their use should play a significant role in the manner in which teachers plan and deliver instruction designed to ensure student success.