Webinar #8: Differentiated Teaching and Student Challenges
By Helen Rees
This webinar will ‘set the table’ for a series of webinars focusing on strategies for incorporating differentiated teaching into today’s busy classroom. This opening session will provide teachers with an overview of some common learner challenges, and how they might manifest in the classroom. Although a number of learning profiles will be touched upon, special attention will be paid to ADHD and its potential impact on learning. Practical strategies will then be recommended and discussed. specific strategies related to Learning Disabilities, Anxiety Disorders, and Externalized “Acting-out” Behaviours will be discuss in webinars 9, 10, 11.
Cost 100.00 plus HST
Webinar #9 – Supporting the LD Student in Your Classroom
By Carol Adler
The purpose of this session is to demonstrate how to support the LD student in the general classroom setting. Discussion will focus on instructional, environmental and assessment accommodations and practical classroom strategies to meet the needs of the LD student. Teachers will be encouraged to develop subject-specific resources which can be adapted to meet the needs of the LD student.
Cost $100.00 +HST
Webinar #10 – Helping Anxious Students in the Classroom (Internalizing Behaviour)
By: Carol Balint
This webinar will review the signs and symptoms of an anxious student who directs his/her worry and concerns inward. A case study of a grade 2 student with generalized anxiety will be presented, and strategies for assisting this student with a typical day at school will be discussed. Adjustments to the strategies based on varying age of students will be discussed. All strategies are practical, easy to implement and will be at your fingertips for use in your classroom tomorrow.
Cost: $100.00 plus HST
Webinar #11 – How Can I Teach This Student? – Externalized Challenging Behaviours
By Helen Rees and Bev Miller
This webinar will focus on externalized challenging behaviours including work refusal, argument, melt-down, and general non-compliance to teacher direction. Ms. Helen Rees and Ms. Bev Miller will discuss and provide strategies and interventions designed to identify student skill deficits, minimize disruption to learning, and maximize student growth across all emotional, cognitive, and social domains. Special attention will be paid to the approaches of Collaborative Problem Solving and Applied Behaviour Analysis/Positive Behavioural Supports.
Cost $100 + HST
Webinar #12 – Assessing Using Professional Judgment
By Beth Lisser
Was: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 – 1:00-2:00PM Ontario Time
This webinar will focus on the importance of assessing with accuracy, so that student grades properly reflect achievement. Accuracy in assessment of learning means:
- being clear regarding the purpose of the assessment
- being clear regarding learning goals
- ensuring categories are addressed in a balanced manner
- keeping in mind the ”big idea” when building an assessment task
- using assessment tools (e.g. rubric, checklist) that are appropriate to the task
- recording results of less traditional assessments (e.g. observations, conversations) while ensuring consistency and fairness
- gathering sufficient evidence
- to ensure consistency and fairness
The webinar will feature practical exemplars of assessments of student products, observations and conversations, and will address the effective and appropriate use of rubrics. A sample assessment policy will be shown, which schools can use as a model to support consistency among teaching staff.
Cost: $100.00 + HST
Making Sense of the OS for Inspected Schools
Presenter: Jim Sebastian Was: Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
The Ministry of Education recently issued Ontario Schools: Kindergarten to Grade 12, Policy and Program Requirements, 2011 (OS). This document sets out the requirements of that govern the policies and programs of publicly-funded elementary and secondary schools and inspected private schools in Ontario. Principals of private schools must have a very good understanding of OS because those policies form the foundation of school operations and of Ministry inspections. It is critical for principals to recognize the policies in OS that apply to private schools and to have a firm understanding of how to use the policies to benefit the school and the students. PDS professional educators and policy experts can help.
Join the PDS upcoming webinar where we will:
- Review the organization of the new policy document and help you navigate your way through it
- Clarify the policies that apply to private schools
- Distinguish between policy requirements and best practices for private schools
- Highlight the significant policy changes that will affect inspected private school operations
- Describe implications for school policies and for the Ministry of Education’s inspection
$100.00 +HST
Webinar #13 – Social Media in Education: Legal Implications
Presenter: Alan Wolfish Q.C.
Was: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 – 7:00-8:00PM Ontario Time
Social networking presents educators with a new generation of potential benefits and problems.
This webinar describes the legal implications of social media for private schools and provides practical defensive strategies.
Private schools, as employers, must be more aware than ever before about their legal duties. Since the law requires teachers to teach by example as well as by lesson, and that example is set just as much by their conduct outside the classroom as within, what legal risks do social networks present? What privacy issues arise? What do private schools need to know about cyber-bullying and threats? Are there free speech issues?
Cost: $100.00 (+HST)
