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North Coast Beginning Teacher Program

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Building Powerful Brains

How are YOU challenging your students to use their “brain power” to engage in complex thinking?  This seminar will provide classroom teachers with strategies and tools to effectively engage all students at the highest levels of thinking. Topics will include: Mapping a Route to Differentiation (Tomlinson); Identifying types of differentiation that will work across the spectrum of students; Strategies for adding depth and complexity to your curriculum; Identifying learning styles & embedding strategies for these within daily lessons; Setting classroom expectations and academic expectations that are student driven; Identifying universal themes that reach across the curriculum.

Peer Coaching

This session will provide experienced educators with the skills necessary to work as a coach with beginning teachers or other colleagues. The workshop will provide strategies that are research-based and have proven to be effective for working with adult learners. Some of these strategies include reflective conversations, the use of evidence in observation, supporting rather than evaluating, classroom observation techniques, communication skills, and trust-building. Participants will learn how to use the California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP) as a base for observation feedback relative to student achievement and instructional strategies.

Peer Coaching for Teachers of English Learners

This session will provide experienced educators with the skills necessary to work as a coach with beginning teachers or other colleagues all of whom are working specifically with groups of English Learners. The workshop will provide strategies that are research-based and have proven to be effective for working with adult learners. Some of these strategies include reflective conversations, the use of evidence in observation, supporting rather than evaluating, classroom observation techniques, communication skills, and trust-building. Participants will learn how to use the California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP) as a base for observation feedback relative to student achievement and instructional strategies.

Peer Coaching - Advanced

This workshop provides experienced educators with the second phase of advanced skills and strategies for coaching beginning teachers. Concepts and strategies practiced within this course include: Building Trusting Relationships; using an ongoing Formative Assessment process built around the California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP); using Observational Scripting Techniques; guiding Reflective Conversations, building awareness of non-verbal communication; distinguishing between evidence and opinion.

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