Education Seminars

Performance Assessment: Define, Design and Implement
Learn how to increase student achievement and provide for more meaningful instruction through performance-based models that greatly increase student motivation and collaboration while uncovering the multiple hidden talents of your students. The major components of an authentic performance assessment model are introduced and experienced in a hands-on manner that will allow for immediate application in your classrooms. During the seminar we will use our student management and assessment system (SMaIS™), TMI's assessment reporting mechanism used to support the New Jersey Performance Assessment Alliance state project, to demonstrate how assessment data can be tracked, analyzed and reported for effective evaluation and action-planning.

Communicating with Parents: Interpersonal Skills that Work
Communicating effectively with parents is a critical factor in fostering student success. This seminar is designed to help all teachers enhance their skills in a very important area of instructional responsibility. Participants will enhance their conferencing skills through practical demonstrations and role plays. Strategies for dealing with difficult family situations are addressed through actual case studies. Whether you are an experienced or a novice teacher, you will learn multiple ways to communicate and strengthen the parent-school connection.

An Introduction to Differentiated Instruction: K-12
The philosophical process of instruction that meets the needs of a diverse group of learners is often described as differentiated instruction. In order to effectively implement this philosophy of instruction, educators at all levels need to be able to utilize multiple strategies at the appropriate times. This offering will specifically serve to guide educators through a systemic and systematic process that, in the end, will foster a culture and philosophy of differentiation throughout their educational community. Differentiated instruction is not a fad or a management system; it is great teaching and truly dispels the notion that one size fits all.

Classroom Management Strategies for Effective Instruction
Effective classroom management is a critical factor to student success. This seminar provides participants with ideas and strategies that will enhance the delivery of daily lessons that meet the needs of a diverse student population and minimize discipline problems. Utilizing the “peek learning times” and creating the most effective positive learning environments are addressed through demonstrations and role plays. A great opportunity for both beginning and veteran teachers!

Formative Assessment: Using Classroom-based Assessments to Improve Learning
It is very well documented that effective instructional practices depend on well constructed, aligned assessments. Effective and ongoing assessments serve to promote and improve student learning. Are you doing the best that you can possibly do when it comes to designing effective instruction with appropriate assessments in mind? Let the experts in the field provide you with the necessary knowledge and skills that will lead to a more effective use of student feedback. Designing, implementing, analyzing and using formative assessment data is demonstrated and discussed in detail. All educators need to be aware of the importance of formative assessment and how its effective use will serve to increase student achievement.

Using Brain-based Strategies to Improve Instruction
This seminar introduces participants to brain-compatible learning environments, principles, strategies and classroom practices that will serve to meet the needs of ALL learners - all based on the most recent research on the human brain and how it best learns. Participants will gain valuable insight into how user-friendly brain-based theories can be put into practice immediately.

A Brain-based Approach to Improving Reading Skills: K-8
This is information that ALL teachers need to know! Join the author of The Reading Brain's Unnatural Connections™, Dr. Jim Gamble, for a cutting-edge seminar that will help improve the reading comprehension skills and problem-solving capabilities of your students through user-friendly brain-compatible teaching strategies. Through demonstrations, research studies, role playing and focused discussions participants will discover how to use brain-compatible strategies to greatly enhance memory skills, reading comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. Educators in all subject areas have witnessed first-hand how understanding these practices can greatly enhance student performance.

Tools For Success: The Habits of Highly Successful People
This seminar is designed to provide participants with skills and techniques that will result in greater productivity and job satisfaction. An emphasis is placed on interpersonal relations and time management. Effective communication skills, conflict resolution and collaboration skills are all presented within the context of the four critical priorities:  Teamwork, Efficiency, Quality and Morale. Time-management strategies will address the issues of how to work in a more organized and efficient manner, how to cut through the maze of paperwork, how to recognize the critical tasks and properly prioritize. Participants will also learn how to plan effectively, delegate tasks and maintain To-Do lists that really work.

Tools For Success: Memory Techniques and Effective Reading Strategies of Highly Successful People
Success in the competitive world of business requires proficiency in the recall of information and the ability to read and comprehend volumes of pertinent information. This seminar is designed to introduce participants to a variety of strategies that serve to enhance working- and long-term memory capabilities, accelerate reading rates and increase comprehension.

The Administrator as Change Agent and Instructional Leader
Today’s administrator faces many challenges in preparing the contemporary student for a global, digital age within the context of a standards-based environment. Participants will be provided with a theoretical and practical foundation for effecting change through instructional leadership, with an emphasis placed on a variety of topics including, but not limited to: (1) creating a shared vision (2) building collaborative teams (3) teaching and learning through action-research (4) creating high-achieving learning environments (5) designing instruction with assessments in mind (6) providing for meaningful professional development (7) technology leadership and (8) leading and managing teams through change.

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