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Date Presenter Program Description Grade Level Meets California Standards
October 6
Ronda Evans The Fourth “R” - Responsibility
Teaching responsibility means teaching self-discipline. Learn how to teach self-discipline to your students by using enforceable statements in the classroom. Enforceable statements help avoid control battles and pave the way for classroom discipline that is positive and effective.
K-12 2.2, 2.4, 2.6
October 20 Debra Barger
Trevor Hartman
Online CMATE Training
Learn all about CMATE, the California Modules for Assessing Teacher Excellence. This training targets Support Providers and Induction candidate Participating Teachers throughout the 12 county region served by The Northeastern California Teacher Education Collaborative (NECTEC) Improving Teacher Quality project. The training will allow you to learn how to access the NECTEC ITQ portal, log-in and update your user information, and navigate through the CMATE modules.
K-12 Specific to all
November 3 Steve Klein Integrating Technology in the Classroom
Technology is one of the most effective teaching tools to support standards-based curriculum. Technology supports different learning styles while motivating student learning and provides teachers with useful feedback to know what students know as they go. Whether you’re a pioneer of the information highway or trying to use your only classroom computer with your students for the first time, this event will introduce effective classroom planning, student grouping and assessment strategies that you will be able to use tomorrow.
K-6 Specific to all
November 17 Ronda Evans Developing Student Responsibility
Is your classroom environment developing responsibility in your students? How do you handle late homework? Missing assignments? Incomplete work? Lost field trip permission slips? Disrespectful students? Learn how the use of natural and logical consequences help students to self-correct their behavior. Creating a classroom environment that develops responsibility in your students will be the goal of this session.
K-12 1:3, 2:2, 2:4, 2:5
December 15 Deborah Reinhardt Swing Your Partner: Music Learning Through Folk Dance
Music and movement are closely linked together. We will explore ways to introduce music through energizing and accessible folk dances
K-8 2:0,3:0,5:0
January 5 Denise Dion CSET-MS Overview
This workshop will cover study and test taking strategies.
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January 19 Cookie Dillavou The Development of a Japanese Block Print
Presentation includes:
- Short history of the rise of the block print in Japan
- A description of how a block print was made
- A lesson on making a block print in class
6-8 3:0, 7:5.2, 7:5.3, 7:5.5, 7:5.6
February 2 Terry Janicki CMATE Training
This program targets year 2 induction candidates and their support providers learning how to use CMATE 10 through 12.
   
February 16 Anita Fernández
Penelope Wong
Our Storied Selves: The Power of Using Personal Narratives in the Classroom
This program will address the power of story and narrative in K-12 classroom as a way to include student voices in the class, especially the voice of English Learners or other students who’s backgrounds are not represented in the curriculum. We will give an overview of different strategies to use story and narrative in the classroom, which can be implemented at all grade levels (K-12). We will then do an activity called the “Name” activity to illustrate how our names tell a story. Our live audience as well as “cyber” audience will be asked to participate in the process and then there will be a final reflection of how this and other strategies might fit into the classrooms of the workshop participants
K-12  
March 2 Karen Hackett
Karen McLaughlin
CMATE Training
Online Lesson Builder
   
April 6        
April 20 Sam Edelman
Carol Edelman
Genocide and Human Rights: The State of California Standards and Issues on Rescue
Professors Sam and Carol Edelman, Co-directors of the State of California Center for the Study of Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance will speak about the Center, about the State Standards and will discuss the impact of the Rescuer.
5-12  
May 4        
May 18