Workshop will provide a detailed explanation of the revisions to the Grade 3 Science Curriculum.  These changes need to be implemented next academic year in order to prepare students for the new Grade 5 science assessment in 2014-15.

Special Emphasis:  Matter, Energy, and Inheritance

While tailored to grade 3, registration is not limited to grade 3 teachers if content knowledge is useful to you.

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• Describe and utilize the concepts that yield full understanding of the dynamics of a challenging child
• Explain why conventional methods of parenting, therapy, and teaching often fail with intense children, despite their best intentions
• Shift a challenging child to using his or her intensity in successful ways, even if the child is diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, or is difficult in other ways, regardless of the child’s age or level of severity
• Apply techniques to create experiences of success that are more powerful and more intensive than traditional approaches
• Utilize strategies to avoid the traps of accidentally rewarding negativity while upholding a perfect level of accountability
• Question parents and teachers who are using this approach at home and in the classrooms

• Common Core State Standards and implications for teaching reading
• Definition of the term complexity and models of these kind of texts
• Developing reading lessons using short texts or parts of texts
• How to demonstrate the comprehension process when the emphasis is on analysis, text dependent comprehension, and inferential thing.
• Lessons include explanatory texts, texts that feature argument, biography, and narrative
• Emphasis on nonfiction as recommended by Common Core
• Why it's important for readers who struggle to practice reading with accessible texts
• Strategy emphasis on close reading, inferential thinking, determining importance and big ideas, vocabulary using context clues
• Importance of independent reading and instructional reading with longer texts

• Describe and utilize the concepts that yield full understanding of the dynamics of a challenging child
• Explain why conventional methods of parenting, therapy, and teaching often fail with intense children, despite their best intentions
• Shift a challenging child to using his or her intensity in successful ways, even if the child is diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, or is difficult in other ways, regardless of the child’s age or level of severity
• Apply techniques to create experiences of success that are more powerful and more intensive than traditional approaches
• Utilize strategies to avoid the traps of accidentally rewarding negativity while upholding a perfect level of accountability
• Question parents and teachers who are using this approach at home and in the classrooms

Jill Hull and Christy Troehler are a successful regular education and special education team at the Kings Local School District. They will provide participants with a rich array of teaching strategies and ideas to:

• Start with the Common Core Standards
• Understand how readers learn
• Add the best literacy practices
• Organize the best literacy block
• Design and teach great lessons in the classroom
• Use assessments to guide planning
• Progress monitor and diagnose through RTI
• Support and specialize instruction through special education

• Start with the Common Core Standards
• Understand how readers learn
• Add the best literacy practices
• Organize the best literacy block
• Design and teach great lessons in the classroom
• Use assessments to guide planning
• Progress monitor and diagnose through RTI
• Support and specialize instruction through special education