SIOP Training 2010

Title III of No Child Left Behind requires professional development of K-12 teachers and staff so that their English language learners (ELLs) can make academic progress in content area subjects while also acquiring and strengthening their skills toward greater English language proficiency.

The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) is providing substantive, research-based professional development opportunities by organizing and supporting several regional SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) workshops for teams of ESL and general education (content area/classroom) teachers from local school districts. Each workshop will accommodate approximately 40-50 persons. Sponsored by MDE and Great Lakes East Comprehensive Center, leaders from the Center for Applied Linguistics (Washington D.C.) will conduct the four-day workshops with the assistance of Michigan teacher-leaders who have completed SIOP train-the-trainer sessions earlier in the summer.

The workshops will be held in three regions in Michigan with significant demographic representation of ELLs. The specific locations for the summer workshops will be:

Oakland Schools (NW Detroit metro area): July 19-22, 2010
Ottawa ISD (Holland area): August 9-12, 2010
Ingham ISD (Lansing area): August 23-26, 2010

School district teams should have the following characteristics:

• Participants currently teach at an elementary or secondary school where ELLs are a part of the student population;
• Participants attend as members of school teams of 3-6 teachers, including both ESL/bilingual and grade level/content area teachers working with ELLs;
• Participants are willing to collaborate with members of their school team during and beyond the workshop as they implement the SIOP Model in their classrooms;
• Participants are willing to engage in follow-up activities (e.g. SIOP coaching) during the school year.

Administrators from districts sending teams to a regional SIOP workshop will be requested to attend a special “overview of SIOP” session held in conjunction with the April 26, 2010 MDE-sponsored ELL Directors Meeting in Lansing. Administrators attending this session will learn more about their teachers’ SIOP training and begin to anticipate practical ways to implement aspects of the SIOP model in support of ELLs in content area classes.

Day of Discovery

Choose virtual sessions from nationally known speakers and/or face-to-face sessions with experienced technology trainers. All teachers are welcome, although space is limited.

Virtual Sessions by Discovery Education’s National Speakers:

Can I Help You With That? The Student as Collaborator
Do You Have the Audacity to Podcast?
Thinking Outside the Slide
Putting the Bling in Your Builders
What on Earth is a Gloggle?
Be Nice and Share: Publishing Your Media-Infused Projects

In Person Hands-on Sessions:

The Best Open Source & Free Windows Applications (Andy Mann)
Google Earth: All Over the World and In your Backyard (John Phillips)
Hands-on: Geocaching in the Classroom (Gina Loveless)
SMART(board) Discovery Streaming (Melissa White)
Thinkfinity: Free Lesson Plans and Educational Resources (Jim Stewart/Karen Lemmons)
Podcasting: Supercharged Writers
Digital Storytelling: Make it Personal
Google Docs: Really, I can do that? (Lisa Wickman)
Get Connected with Social Bookmarking (Melinda Waffle)

KeyTrain® Training

Participants will learn to create and edit students accounts, create classes and assign lessons, and understand administrative features found in the KeyTrain® learning system. KeyTrain® Training is a curriculum designed to achieve mastery of the applied workplace skills assessed by WorkKeys. WorkKeys Applied Mathematics, Locating Information and Reading for Information assessments are components of the Michigan Merit Examination. KeyTrain® courses utilize a multi-sensory, multimedia experience. Learning includes both simple skill demonstrations and high-level activities that require complex problem-solving abilities, building the learner’s skill level and confidence throughout the process. Learning modules include 16 career clusters and provide examples of real skill levels corresponding to skill levels required of jobs. Ingham ISD has provided the KeyTrain® learning system to all schools in its service area. Facilitator: Rick Harris, Regional Manager, KeyTrain®.

KeyTrain® – Quick Tour

This session is a quick tour and review of KeyTrain®. The session will focus on topics and questions the participants bring to the session. Participants will have the opportunity to review the features of KeyTrain and learn about updates and enhancements. KeyTrain® is a curriculum designed to achieve mastery of the applied workplace skills assessed by WorkKeys. WorkKeys’ Applied Mathematics, Locating Information and Reading for Information assessments are components of the Michigan Merit Exam. KeyTrain® courses utilize a multi-sensory, multimedia experience; learning includes both simple skill demonstrations and high-level activities that require complex problem-solving abilities, building the learner’s skill level and confidence throughout the process. Ingham ISD has provided the KeyTrain® learning system to all schools in its service area. Facilitator: Rick Harris, Regional Manager, KeyTrain®.

Differentiation Is Doable

This Professional Learning Community provides your school group time to plan and apply the 2009 presentation by Carol Ann Tomlinson or this year’s Mid-Michigan Consortium guest speaker, Steve Kahl. Gather your colleagues and spend two days working on differentiated instruction tasks, assignments, activities and assessments. This two-part PLC will continue to support the use of differentiated instruction and Understanding by Design in the classroom. Participants will use work time to create differentiated classroom activities that respond to the needs of all learners. Participants will continue to build collegial relationships across districts. Facilitators from the Ingham ISD will be available to provide guidance and resources as needed.

Note: You may also be interested in the Mid-Michigan Consortium workshop “Differentiated Instruction: Lessons from the Field”  with Steve Kahl, master secondary teacher, at Clinton County RESA on February 16 and 17, 2010.

Knowing Your Students…

This interactive session will provide participants with an overview of the importance of understanding student interests and individual learning profiles to differentiate instruction effectively within the classroom. Participants will review tools and processes related to learning styles, multiple intelligences, and interests, and discuss effective, manageable ways this information can be used to support diverse learners. They will also become familiar with the importance of gender and culture as it relates to learning. Facilitator: Nancy M. Fahner, Ingham ISD School Improvement consultant.

KeyTrain® Training

Participants will learn to create and edit students accounts, create classes and assign lessons, and understand administrative features found in the KeyTrain® learning system. KeyTrain® Training is a curriculum designed to achieve mastery of the applied workplace skills assessed by WorkKeys. WorkKeys Applied Mathematics, Locating Information and Reading for Information assessments are components of the Michigan Merit Examination. KeyTrain® courses utilize a multi-sensory, multimedia experience. Learning includes both simple skill demonstrations and high-level activities that require complex problem-solving abilities, building the learner’s skill level and confidence throughout the process. Learning modules include 16 career clusters and provide examples of real skill levels corresponding to skill levels required of jobs. Ingham ISD has provided the KeyTrain® learning system to all schools in its service area. Facilitator: Rick Harris, Regional Manager, KeyTrain®.

KeyTrain® – Quick Tour

This session is a quick tour and review of KeyTrain®. The session will focus on topics and questions the participants bring to the session. Participants will have the opportunity to review the features of KeyTrain and learn about updates and enhancements. KeyTrain® is a curriculum designed to achieve mastery of the applied workplace skills assessed by WorkKeys. WorkKeys’ Applied Mathematics, Locating Information and Reading for Information assessments are components of the Michigan Merit Exam. KeyTrain® courses utilize a multi-sensory, multimedia experience; learning includes both simple skill demonstrations and high-level activities that require complex problem-solving abilities, building the learner’s skill level and confidence throughout the process. Ingham ISD has provided the KeyTrain® learning system to all schools in its service area. Facilitator: Rick Harris, Regional Manager, KeyTrain®.

Differentiated Instruction: Lessons Learned from the Field

Participants will become more skilled in differentiating instruction to serve a variety of interests, readiness levels, and learning profiles. Steve Kahl, award-winning high school teacher and current practitioner, has presented differentiated instruction sessions to hundreds of schools throughout California. With his vast knowledge on the topic, as well as his many years of exemplary teaching experience, he will be demonstrating how to combine routine formative assessments, rigorous tiered assignments, and engaging project menus to serve a continuum of learners. Although Steve is a secondary teacher, elementary teachers have also found his presentations to be useful and engaging.

Participants will engage in the writing or revising of a current lesson, incorporating their new understanding.

Differentiating Instruction in Middle School Math

Participants will learn how to use formative assessments to help students who need extra support in mathematics, as well as challenge students who move ahead quickly. Teri Keusch, Portland, Michigan middle school math teacher, will present her successful approaches to differentiating instruction in a lively afternoon discussion that includes time to create classroom activities. Ingham ISD is bringing Teri back after her well received session last year. She will speak with middle school mathematics teachers (5-8) about her successful approaches for providing the kinds of instruction needed to move all students forward in their mathematical understanding and fluency.

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