What is the difference between group work and cooperative learning? Why does it matter? Come answer these questions and learn how you can adapt the things you already do to leverage the power of cooperative learning.
Progress monitoring, learning progression, interventions, enrichment, SLOs, formative assessments, differentiation….. We know our Allen ISD teachers are making great efforts to implement all these strategies in their instruction but it can be challenging to make it all connect and support student learning. In this session, we will bring clarity to how all of these effective strategies work together and attendees will explore various tools that will make it easier to determine student’s next steps in their learning progression and provide evidence to support student growth.
Instructional Specialist secondary math, Allen ISD
Passionate about inspiring all students to become mathematical problem solvers and I believe deeply in serving teachers in their journey to be life long learners.
Come see several activities that can be used for proportionality in geometry- Vocabulary Magic, Blueprints, and Bullseye! Those these activities are specific to proportionality in geometry, some could be changed and used for other TEKS as well.
Both novice and experienced Canvas users will benefit as the Tech IS Team accepts the challenge to share 10 Canvas features in 10 minutes that are helpful and can be used immediately. Open Q & A and work time will follow, allowing for collaboration and creation of activities to engage students this upcoming semester.
The best part of my job is working with teachers as they try new things and find success with excited, engaged students. I love learning and seeing the love of learning in others. Teachers in Allen inspire me everyday with your love for students and passion to create innovative... Read More →
Increasing Rigor Through Questioning—How we question our students has a dramatic impact on rigor, learning, and long-term results, particularly for our gifted and advanced learners. In this session, we’ll examine ways to leverage our own questioning for our students’ success. All grades and content areas welcome. This session counts as 2 hours toward an annual GT update.
Kelsey Karcher, M.Ed., is the District Coordinator for Advanced Academics & Gifted and Talented in Allen ISD. Throughout her career, her goal has been to ensure all gifted students have equitable access to an education that challenges and supports them. She earned a B.A. in Broadcast... Read More →
During this session, you will walk away with multiple ways to engage students in various group and partner activities in place of the traditional worksheet. (We Learn With Others)
Do you have a review packet for a test? Do you have a day in class for the students to work on that review? Do the students waste their time and not work on it?
In this session, we will explore different games that can be played with test reviews. Come play the games, and learn how to implement them into your class.
Participants will spend the beginning of the session experiencing a digital breakout edu. Then participants will have a chance to apply what they learned to begin designing and creating a digital breakout edu. Digital breakouts support students in exemplifying the graduate profile characteristics by building effective communicators, problem solvers, responsible and engaged citizens, and academically prepared students. This session is open to all participants! (We Celebrate Persistence)
This session is for teachers who are familiar with DESMOS and want to create their own activities using DESMOS. The session will have a 10-15 minute introduction that will demonstrate the flow of the class and different tools you can use in the activity builder. The remaining part of the session will be used to build your own activity.
What is Statistics? What sort of majors and careers use Statistics? What topics are covered in Stat and AP Prob & Stat? How can I help my students decide if Stat or AP Prob & Stat is the right class for them? How does Statistics overlap with other subject areas both inside and outside of math? What sort of hands-on activities do you do in Stat that could maybe give me ideas in my own subject? We will answer these questions and more. Plus we will show you some of the hands-on activities that we do in our classes, including some probability activities that could apply to lower levels as well.
Enrich you and your students' mathematical understanding of fractions, patterns, scale by using fractals. Peak curiosity with Cantor monsters, Mandelbrot series, Koch snowflakes, and other fractals found in art, science, mathematics, and (coding) . Create your own designs through experimentation by drawing and designing fractals and connecting them to mathematical thinking methods.
The best way to really learn, is to teach. Teaching requires real understanding of the subject matter. This session will focus on ways to allow students to use and teach what they have learned, whether it be on their own campus or off site and in the community. With the STEAM Center opening, many wonderful opportunities should open up for students to be a part of the teaching community. (We Like Science)
This workshop will combine STEM with Math and Science curriculum. We will teach participants to code using Spheros to navigate through 2 Math and 2 Science courses to complete tasks at designated areas on the course. We will use coordinate planes and geometry for the Math TEKS and space and ecosystems for the Science TEKS. Participants will collaborate with each other to develop other concepts that can be used in a similar way. Some other concepts that could be taught using the "Sphero Scavenger Hunt" technique could include the Science processing skills, rock cycle, force and motion, energy transformations, food chains, human body systems, cell structures, atomic structure. For Math, the technique could be used to teach integers, geometry and measurement, volume and surface area, triangles, angles, and slope. (We are Curious)
I've been teaching 10 science for 10 years- 8 in 5th and 2 in 6th. My passions are Ecology and Space and I try to inspire my students to save Earth while shooting for the stars.
Learn how to explore transformations of functions using the Transform App on the TI84 and explore the rules for transformations on a coordinate plane using lists and stat plot.
Are you tired of the typical cookie cutter labs where students have to just follow the instructions to complete the lab. In this session, we will discuss how to change these labs into an self-discovery lab where the student have to come up with their own experiment and follow their own procedure that they have to follow. We will also discuss the pitfalls of these methods and how to avoid these pitfalls. (We Are Curious)
What is the difference between group work and cooperative learning? Why does it matter? Come answer these questions and learn how you can adapt the things you already do to leverage the power of cooperative learning.
Let us show you how you and your students can use Google’s My Maps and Google Earth in the science classroom to create virtual tours. With My Maps, you and your students can quickly and easily create global maps of scientific phenomena marked with colorful ‘pins” that include graphics and commentary. You will learn how to upload the finished product to Google Earth for an even more spectacular view. We will also demonstrate how you can introduce the world to your students with Google Expeditions. (Science is Anytime and Anywhere)
Differentiated instruction isn’t just for our struggling learners. In this session, we’ll discuss making sure our gifted and advanced learners are appropriately challenged by differentiating from the top down. All grades and content welcome. This session counts as 2 hours toward an annual GT update.
Kelsey Karcher, M.Ed., is the District Coordinator for Advanced Academics & Gifted and Talented in Allen ISD. Throughout her career, her goal has been to ensure all gifted students have equitable access to an education that challenges and supports them. She earned a B.A. in Broadcast... Read More →
Both novice and experienced Canvas users will benefit as the Tech IS Team accepts the challenge to share 10 Canvas features in 10 minutes that are helpful and can be used immediately. Open Q & A and work time will follow, allowing for collaboration and creation of activities to engage students this upcoming semester.
The best part of my job is working with teachers as they try new things and find success with excited, engaged students. I love learning and seeing the love of learning in others. Teachers in Allen inspire me everyday with your love for students and passion to create innovative... Read More →
This session will cover the "why and how" of a flipped classroom. There will be no "sit and get" as attendees will experience a flipped classroom from the students perspective. They will learn about how and why to incorporate this teaching strategy while keeping the class student-centered.
Digital portfolios provide students opportunities to reflect and provide authentic evidence of learning. The focus of this presentation will be to discuss how these portfolios can be used in the classroom to assess learning and provide teachers opportunity to monitor students’ growth, perfect for SLO goals! Participants will also have time to create their own digital portfolio. (We Plan With the Standards)
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Experience the mathematics within games from around the world with your students. Examine patterns, logic, algorithms, and the culture behind games that have survived the ages.
Do you want your students to be engaged learners and increase your use of technology in a meaningful way? In this session, you will experience an animal adaptation digital breakout box. Do you have the right adaptations necessary to break out?
Learn about exciting ways to integrate technology into your Science Workshop model! Differentiating student learning and creating autonomy helps create a purposeful lesson. This session will include using Google Classroom, Hyperdocs, and Choice Boards.
Participants will learn about the different models of Math Workshop and explore ways to increase student engagement and decrease mathematics anxiety. Come learn tips to begin and maintain this successful structure that creates a classroom environment where students engage in deep discourse, meaningful learning stations, rich problem-solving tasks, and guided mathematics groups. Finding this model of instruction worthwhile, you will want to start immediately and you will have the tools necessary to do it!
Differentiated instruction isn’t just for our struggling learners. In this session, we’ll discuss making sure our gifted and advanced learners are appropriately challenged by differentiating from the top down. All grades and content welcome. This session counts as 1.5 hours toward an annual GT update.
Kelsey Karcher, M.Ed., is the District Coordinator for Advanced Academics & Gifted and Talented in Allen ISD. Throughout her career, her goal has been to ensure all gifted students have equitable access to an education that challenges and supports them. She earned a B.A. in Broadcast... Read More →
SeeSaw is an online student portfolio system. This is an introductory session where you will create a teacher account and explore applications for students.
Differentiated instruction isn’t just for our struggling learners. In this session, we’ll discuss making sure our gifted and advanced learners are appropriately challenged by differentiating from the top down. All grades and content welcome. This session counts as 1.5 hours toward an annual GT update.
Kelsey Karcher, M.Ed., is the District Coordinator for Advanced Academics & Gifted and Talented in Allen ISD. Throughout her career, her goal has been to ensure all gifted students have equitable access to an education that challenges and supports them. She earned a B.A. in Broadcast... Read More →
This session will explain how to have student own their learning by setting goals, monitoring progress, and reflecting on their personal growth. This session is geared toward 4-6 teachers.
Do you want your students to drive their own learning through conversation and activities connected to TEKS? In this session, you will experience rotation stations through the eyes of the students. You will get access to three different content unit rotation stations that cover all of the reporting categories. Each lesson set is designed so that you can take them away from the session to use immediately in your classroom with your students.
Come engage in activities to go deeper with and personalize the Science Workshop Model for their classrooms! Learn how to structure your class in the primary grades to engage students in science.
Have you heard of the Lead4ward Playlist, but do not know how and when to use it effectively. Come find out more about how these activities can be tools for cooperative learning designed to involve all students.
Ideas and strategies to encourage teachers to incorporate hands-on learning in Science. Starting from Science lab planning & management, including opportunities for STEAM activities and Incorporating Makerspace which integrates Science, Reading & Writing.
I've been teaching 10 science for 10 years- 8 in 5th and 2 in 6th. My passions are Ecology and Space and I try to inspire my students to save Earth while shooting for the stars.
You have observational data, assessment data, and Istation data..now what? Participants will learn how to use their data to group students by standards and plan lessons/activities to meet their specific needs.
Math games and science labs aren’t just time fillers. Let’s talk increasing rigor and learning through the questions we ask as our students “play” in math and science. All grade levels and contents welcome. This session counts as 1.5 hours toward an annual GT update.
Kelsey Karcher, M.Ed., is the District Coordinator for Advanced Academics & Gifted and Talented in Allen ISD. Throughout her career, her goal has been to ensure all gifted students have equitable access to an education that challenges and supports them. She earned a B.A. in Broadcast... Read More →
Students use student-friendly learning progressions based on sample work to evaluate their current knowledge and then reflect on personal growth in learning. This session is geared toward K-3 teachers.
I am passionate about elementary science and math instruction. I love to work with students and to empower teachers to be the best version of themselves.
This workshop will show you how to use escape rooms in your classroom. Escape rooms help foster collaboration, develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills for your students. Escape rooms can be used in any subject. We'll be showing science ones in this workshop.
You have formative and summative data..now what? Participants will learn how to use their data to group students by standards and plan lessons/activities to meet their specific needs.
Math games and science labs aren’t just time fillers. Let’s talk increasing rigor and learning through the questions we ask as our students “play” in math and science. All grade levels and contents welcome. This session counts as 1.5 hours toward an annual GT update.
Kelsey Karcher, M.Ed., is the District Coordinator for Advanced Academics & Gifted and Talented in Allen ISD. Throughout her career, her goal has been to ensure all gifted students have equitable access to an education that challenges and supports them. She earned a B.A. in Broadcast... Read More →
Are you and your students tired of worksheets? Learn a variety of ways to turn the quality problems from your textbook into engaging activities for students.
Students use student-friendly learning progressions based on sample work to evaluate their current knowledge and then reflect on personal growth in learning. This session is geared toward K-3 teachers.
I am passionate about elementary science and math instruction. I love to work with students and to empower teachers to be the best version of themselves.
Looking for a way to facilitate more differentiated instruction in your district, department, or classroom? Learn how to create targeted and purposeful interactive Slide Decks in google, share them with your colleagues, and assign them to students. Receive and give immediate feedback to students using Google Classroom and Google Forms to check for understanding.
