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Priority Learning brings staff development to your district Preparing Your Classroom "Welcome to the Jungle" • How to set up your classroom • Beginning of the year "Must Do's" and plans for a successful year • Anchor charts, word walls, grammar walls, and more! • Lesson plan templates • Sub plans and transition ideas • New ideas and sharing. Lesson Planning • Components that should be included in a lesson plan • Different lesson plan formats that can be customized by the participant • Differentiated instructional techniques and strategies that enhance a lesson • Strategies to engage all students in a lesson. Classroom Management "I Can Do It" • Learn content through groups and hands-on activities • Getting to know students, reinforce good behavior and deal with difficult behaviors • Establish rules and routines • Build positive parent/teacher relationships • Link with a partner for future support • Learn more effective communication with students, colleagues, and parents. Teacher Evaluation Strategies • Understanding the purpose of evaluation • Knowledge of the Arizona Framework for Teacher and Principal Evaluation • Analyzing the Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) standards • Defining evidence of standards in your practice • Examining evaluation systems (current and future). Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) • Learn how to develop and sustain high functioning teams of educators • Explore methods to maximize educator teams to boost learning levels • Learn and apply the three big ideas of a PLC • Develop an understanding of their role in a PLC. ELL Culture and Equity • Engage ELL students in academic learning and English language development. • Recognize and build on cultural and equity assumptions and culturally relevant instruction. • Create classroom and school environments that facilitate language learning. • Recognize language development stages and promising instructional practices for teaching in the classroom and school • Identify appropriate ELL instructional strategies aligned and differentiated to lessons and objectives and goals • Find innovative and structured methods to motivate ELL students to practice academic language skills and demonstrate proficiency. Response to Intervention • Be introduced to the problem-solving approach found in the Response to Intervention model • Understand the three-tiered approach to interventions • Learn the role of data in decision making • Clarify the use of RTI as one way to determine special education eligibility for some students • Begin creating a three-tiered pyramid of interventions. Additional NEA training programs are available with the assistance of NEA. The trainings are designed to assist with Bullying and Sexual Harassment Prevention, C.A.R.E. for culturally, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse students and their parents, and the KEYS 2.0 program for turning around lower-performing schools. Contact the AEA Quality Teaching and Learning staff if you would like to bring these to your district. ✒ AEA Advocate ❘ Summer 2012 17 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT