John Muir Academy
Verona Catalog
Verona High School - July 26 - 30, 2010
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John Muir Academy Verona Catalog Verona High School - July 26 - 30, 2010 |
The John Muir Academy (JMA) and the ide@s Portal Website have partnered to offer free registration for up to thirty participants this year. As an ide@s Research Scholar, you will submit two units of instruction in your area of expertise as your culminating work at JMA. As teachers you're already writing lessons plans, so why not get paid for the work? Not to mention you are already doing the work for graduate credits.
For more information go to: www.ideas.wisconsin.eduTeachers who want to become ide@s Research Scholars need to fill out the ide@s application located below and take one of the designated ide@s courses offered at JMA. These course instructors will guide you through the necessary steps for the creating instructional units using the Understanding by Design model. Participants can choose the topics for the units so they are useful in your content area and the grade level you teach. We will provide guidance for you and JMA instructors so that you have the format and tools to create your units. Once your application as an ide@s Research Scholar is accepted, you will need to pay the $375 registration cost to John Muir Academy as well as turn in the JMA registration form. Once you have attended the full week at JMA, and have submitted your curriculum unit(s), you will be reimbursed $375 by ide@s no later than September 1, 2010. Once you have tested your unit in the classroom and made any needed modifications, you will be paid an additional $100.00. Ide@s staff will be on site all week at the Academy to assist you with guidelines for these units. We will use the Understanding by Design model by McTighe and Wiggens as the structure for instructional units. How do I qualify? To become an ide@s Research Scholar, check the box on the JMA registration form stating your preference and choose 1 of the designated courses. We will send you a short application that asks your area of teacher certification, years of teaching experience, and level of familiarity in curriculum writing. You can also download it below. Knowledge of the Understanding by Design model, or Backwards Design Model is helpful, but not necessary. You will be contacted within two weeks with a response. What is ide@s? Selected PK-16 educators from Wisconsin work in teams to identify, evaluate, catalog, and align standards-based educational resources that are already on the Internet such as lesson plans and reference materials. Wisconsin teachers also create original educational units for ide@s that are shared across the state and beyond. A recent addition to ide@s is imageide@s, which provides high quality photographs and images that are in the public domain. These resources are all available at the ide@s search engine. You don't have to look through dozens of online listings to find the resources you need. The ide@s search engine allows you to tell it specifically what you need then it searches the database for you. You can read teacher reviews of the resources and see exactly which state standards they address. Ide@s saves you time while focusing instruction and technology on Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards. You know you're getting a quality resource that other Wisconsin educators have recommended. If you'd like to apply click on the link to download the course application:ide@s Application |
Ide@s Research Scholar Courses: TECHNOLOGY T105 - Google Tools for Educators
Do you Google? Most of us are aware of Google as a search engine to find things on the Internet. However, Google offers much more than just the web search. There is Google Earth, Google Books, Google Maps, and Google Docs just to mention a few. Join us as we learn about the many Google tools and how they can be used for teaching and learning. Most of these tools have web 2.0 features which allow for collaboration and sharing information. You will learn how to use these tools and develop an action plan for integrating several of the tools into your professional work.
State Standards to be addressed are: Wisconsin Teacher Standards: 3,4,5,6,7, and 9
Under the guidance of ide@s staff participants will:
MATH M100 - Put Away That Textbook! It's Time to Learn Some Math!
Workshop information to be determined soon
State Standards to be addressed are: Wisconsin Teacher Standards: SCIENCE & LITERATURE SL100 - Time for CLASS (Children's Literature & Science Surprises A Program for K-6 Educators Presenter: Bruce Oxley - Arbor Vitae-Woodruff School - Arbor Vitae, WI Join other K-6 teachers as we combine quality children's literature with students' natural love of science for a week of non-stop fun and excitement. Utilizing picture books and chapter book, fictionand non-fiction, Caldecott Winners and Newbery Awardees, we'll explore science concepts and skills, as well as develop a thorough understanding of the science content involved when using each book. You'll leave the workshop with a complete bibliography of the various books and numerous science activities, experiments, and lab experiences. All these components will have you ready for your students in the fall.
State Standards to be addressed are: All State Science Standards A-H and all 10 Wisconsin Teacher Standards SCIENCE S100 - Robotics and Science for All Teachers A Program for 3-12 Educators Presenter: Larry Scheckel - Tomah High School - Tomah, WI An all new workshop! Teachers: build and program a Parallax Boe Bot Robot, worth $150, that can be taken back to your classroom and remain part of your teaching practice. The robot can run on the floor and perform a myriad of motions, sounds, and tasks, or it can sit on your desk and provide instructions to students or move to music. The robot will follow a line, navigate a path on the floor, use LED's, sing songs, follow the leader and use infrared and ultrasonic sensors. The programming language is simple and requires little computer skills. Robots are used in auto, medical, and manufacturing industries, military, and many science fiction films. Building and programming a robot is a combination of mechanics, electronics, and problem solving. Get your students interested and excited about the field of engineering, mechatronics, and software development. This course requires very minor construction or computer programming skills. Construction will be followed by a series of hands-on activities and projects that will introduce teachers to basic robotic concepts. Students as young as third grade, plus middle school, high school, technical school, and engineering school have successfully used this robot and its accessories. While the main focus of this session is robotics, time may allow for several physical science activities, labs, and demonstrations.
State Standards to be addressed are: A4.1, A4.4, A8.4, A8.6, B8.5, C12.2, D4.5, and D4.8 SCIENCE S101 - Outdoor Environmental Potpourri A Program for K-4 Educators Presenter: James Davies - Ferryville, WI This course is a veritable smorgasbord of unique, fun and interesting environmental topics and techniques to utilize the vast resources
outside your classroom. Designed as an outdoor application course, you will receive training and hands-on application with construction of systems to investigate microhabitats and other “hands-on” projects for the classroom. Whether you take the students outdoors or bring the outdoor environment to them in the classroom, this course will improve your understanding
of the complex and sensitive environment in which we live.
State Standards to be addressed are: A.4.1-A.4.3, B.4.1-B.4.12, C.4.1, C.4.5, D.4.1, D.4.2, E.4.1; Wisconsin Teacher Standards: 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 TECHNOLOGY T100 - SMART Board Academy A Program for K-12 Educators Presenter: Dave Ebert and Shannon Luehman - Oregon High School - Oregon, Wisconsin This class is for those teachers who want to learn more about Smart boards, those who will soon be using a Smart board in their class, and current Smart board users who want to enhance their lessons. Participants will learn how to create interactive lessons using Notebook software, integrate the Internet into their lessons, and record their lessons to be posted online or played back as a video. There will be a number of different seminars throughout the week for all ability levels, and participants will be able to choose the seminars they wish to attend. Teachers will need to bring their curricular materials to work on, and will finish the week with a collection of activities they can use in their classrooms. State Standards to be addressed are: Wisconsin Teacher Standards Addressed: 1-4, 6-7, 9-10 TECHNOLOGY T101 - www.freeelementaryweb.com A Program for K-5 Educators Presenter: Velvet Holmes - Oregon School District - Oregon, WI The internet is full of FREE sites to enrich your curriculum! So how do you find them? How do you integrate them? Come and spend the week with me and I will show you tips and tricks to integrating the internet into your K-5 classroom curriculum. When you are finished with this class, you will have explored all the free tools that Google has to offer, web 2.0 sites, blogs, wikis, and started your personal learning network!
State Standards to be addressed are: A.4.3, A.4.4, PI-34 Teachers Standards: TECHNOLOGY T102 - ALICE in Programmingland A Program for 6-12 Educators Presenter: Randy Hoitink - Neenah High School - Neenah, WI Beginning programmers often get frustrated and discouraged, because they first have to master the detailed rules of the language just to get their first programs (usually nothing very exciting) to run at all. Alice is a FUN, engaging, easy-to-learn programming environment that makes it easy (and FUN) for beginners to create programs that manipulate all kinds of interesting characters and objects in a three-dimensional world of their own making. The "smart" drag-and-drop interface doesn't allow syntax errors, so students can proceed with confidence. It's part programming, part movie-directing, part game design, and all FUN! While Alice makes it easy to get started, though, the sky's the limit from there. It truly challenges and engages students at a wide range of levels, easily allowing them to work at their own pace while they ALL have FUN! Sounds like FUN? IT IS!
State Standards to be addressed are: Wisconsin Teacher Standards: 1, 3-4, 6, 10 and Wisconsin Student Standards: Mathematics: A,B,C,D,E & Science: D,G & Information and Technology: A,B,C,D TECHNOLOGY T103 - Technology Tools for Teachers 2010 A Program for K-12 Educators Presenters: Deb Tryddestad and Chris Longe - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Take your presentations to the next level! Integrate the latest technology into all of your courses!! Answer the question "How did they do that?" Here is hands-on instruction on how to effectively implement instructional technology in your classroom. Use digital cameras and camcorders to tell your “digital stories.” Learn how to integrate resources to create multimedia presentations. Investigate many different tools available on the Internet. Take advantage of the opportunity to try different software and network with colleagues from other school districts. As Chris Lehmann says, "Tools don't teach but they can change the way we teach."
Wisconsin Teacher State Standards to be addressed are: TECHNOLOGY T104 - Web 2.0 for the Digital Educator A Program for 6-12 Educators Presenter: Rita Mortenson - Verona High School - Verona, WI
In this exciting course, you will learn about many FREE and popular Web 2.0 tools and how you can successfully incorporate them into your classroom. Have you heard about blogs, wikis, delicious and more but just didn't know how you could use them in your classroom? Did you know that there are 50 free Google applications for use? Using a variety of FREE online tools, you can communicate, share and collaborate with people all over the world. Find out how you and your students can use these tools for educational purposes!
State Standards to be addressed are: Media and Technology, Information and Inquiry, Independent Learning, and The Learning Community. OTHER O100 - Differentiation - You can Do It! A Program for 1-8 Educators Presenter: Marilyn Sharrow - Glacier Creek Middle School - Cross Plains, WI How can teachers meet individual needs and interests while still covering standards and district objectives? Find out how by taking this course! This course offers strategies for teaching a diverse classroom, management strategies for guiding flexible teaching and learning, and new roles for the teacher in a classroom designed to reach diverse learners. In this course you will develop plans for flexible teaching and learning with the purpose of reaching every learner. You will also develop routines and procedures for effective leadership, organization, and classroom management in a differentiated classroom. Plus, you will create differentiated lessons and a full unit to put to use right away in the fall! Meet the needs of all students in your classroom and be ready to start the new school year well prepared. State Standards to be addressed are: Wisconsin Teacher Standards: 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10 OTHER O101 - The Best Way to Teach Writing? TRAITS! A Program for K-8 & Spec.Ed Educators Presenter: Laurie Holmquist - Madison, Wisconsin
Participants will spend the week learning how to craft writing lessons using the 6+1 Traits method of teaching writing. All aspects of writing will be covered, as well as how to reach the reluctant writer. Participants will write themselves, and keep a daily journal for the week. A wide variety of the newest and best titles in children's literature will be available for use in writing lessons, as well as enjoyment. If teaching writing has been a chore, when you finish this workshop, you will be equipped to teach it with enthusiasm and confidence - guaranteed! State Standards to be addressed are: Appropriate standards will be addressed in this workshop. It meets all of the standards identified in the language arts curriculum for writing. |
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