-- Gary Ackerman, Ph.D.
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From: nelms@nelms.org
Date: October 17, 2013 at 8:37:51 AM EDT
To: "Dr. Gary L. Ackerman" <gary@hackscience.net>
Subject: Rick Wormeli is coming back to New England-Register Now!
Reply-To: NELMS <nelms@nelms.org>
October 10, 2013 - Rick W. coming very soon! Rick Wormeli is coming back to New England
Don't miss these exciting events
Register now as time is running out.**
October 22 & 23, 2013
How to Assess and Grade in an Optimum Learning Environment
Radisson Hotel Manchester Downtown, Manchester, NH
Teaching is not a "gotcha" enterprise, yet many assessment and grading practices fall into that category. In addition, the Common Core State Standards are pushing teachers to re-examine what they consider as best evidence of mastery, and the public is calling for grades to report that evidence with integrity. Join us for a provocative seminar in which we identify fundamental elements of standards-based assessment and grading and how those elements lead to learning over that which otherwise could be achieved. Specifically, we'll look at: being sensitive to students' readiness levels, interests, and learning challenges while holding them accountable for the same high standards, grading ethics, determining evidence of mastery, grade definitions, grading scales, pre-/formative/summative/common assessments, averaging or not, zeroes on the 100-point scale, homework, late work, descriptive feedback, re-do's and re-takes, rubric design, setting up the gradebook, handling extra credit, group projects, effort/behavior marks, grading exceptional students, report card design, and much more. While offering dozens of practical techniques, we'll emphasize the principles behind their use so that learning and assessing are strategic, not haphazard. This myth-busting seminar confronts/validates core teaching values – It has an unusually high incidence of invigorating and transforming pedagogy. Don't miss it!
To register for this conference please click here.
October 24 & 25, 2013
Tiering Strategies for Classroom Instruction & Homework: A Plan for Student Success
Holiday Inn Enfield-Springfield, Enfield, CT
Co-sponsored by NELMS and Connecticut Association of Schools
Some students are ready for the first steps of a topic and others are ready for advanced projects in that topic, so how do we tier assignments in order to maximize students' learning at any given point? Join us for a practical and thought-provoking look at what constitutes mastery, and how we can increase and decrease complexity in student assignments while meeting the needs of standards and their benchmarks, all within one class period or school week. We'll include sample lesson designs, "Anchor" and "Football," as well as great attention moves, specific complexity raising tips, student "orbitals," personal agendas, and suggestions on how to get students to work autonomously, a portion of which will emphasize how to build Executive Function capacity in students as they become independent learners.
We'll also include a close examination of 21st century homework practices that help students learn and mature, and we'll confront several homework practices that no longer serve the modern student. Woven with the tiering elements, the homework portions explore when to, and when not to, give homework, how to assess homework and provide helpful feedback, how to motivate students to do homework, how to design developmentally appropriate assignments for diverse students, how much homework to assign, and specific, classroom-tested homework assignments students will enjoy doing. For anyone revising homework policies and procedures, this is a timely opportunity.
Together, these two days are a, "how-to," and, "why-we-do-it," seminar on tiering and homework for those just getting their feet wet and those already swimming in both who want more ideas. Tonight's assignment? Take the first step to invigorate your classroom practice by reserving a spot in this seminar!
To register for this conference please click here.
**If you cannot register now onsite registration will be available.
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