Instructional Services (Tulare COE) Events Calendar

TK - Houhton Mifflin Harcourt - Splash into Pre-K

Event Date May 21, 2012

Transitional Kindergarten Training is a one-day professional development course that focuses on the instructional needs of young learners enrolled in the first year of a two-year kindergarten program. During this interactive training, teachers explore how to use a modified curriculum that is age- and developmentally-appropriate in a Transitional Kindergarten classroom. Teachers learn how to meet necessary key learning goals including phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, oral language and vocabulary skills, and print awareness.

The Transitional Kindergarten course allows teachers to explore thematic connections to writing, math, science, and social studies. Teachers examine the topic of assessment and how to use observational data to inform instruction. Tips for setting up and managing the classroom are shared. Teachers leave the institute with many ideas they can incorporate into the classroom the very next day.

Professional Development for: Transitional Kindergarten Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Administrators, and Instructional Coaches.

Literacy Conference

Event Date May 22, 2012

San Joaquin Valley’s Region 7

7^th Annual

Literacy Conference

Registration fee: $150 per participant
Earlibird Registration: $125 by March 15, 2012

TK - Macmillan McGraw-Hill - Little Treasures

Event Date May 23, 2012
Transitional Kindergarten Training is a one-day professional development course that focuses on the instructional needs of young learners enrolled in the first year of a two-year kindergarten program. During this interactive training, teachers explore how to use a modified curriculum that is age- and developmentally-appropriate in a Transitional Kindergarten classroom. Teachers learn how to meet necessary key learning goals including phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, oral language and vocabulary skills, and print awareness.

Professional Development for: Transitional Kindergarten Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Administrators, and Instructional Coaches.

Instructional Rounds

Event Date May 25, 2012

Find out what’s in it for you!

Why use Instructional Rounds
What the Instructional Rounds process involves
How to get involved
Hear from a practitioner

During the 2012-13 school year, TCOE staff will provide:

Professional development for school administrators and their leadership teams on how to implement and utilize Instructional Rounds in their school improvement efforts.
On-site support and guidance in the implementation process.
Follow-up professional development to address needs identified in “next level of work”.
Professional development for incorporating Instructional Rounds into your alternative governance process.
Facilitated networking opportunities (based on common interest) may include:

à Rural K-8 Schools

à High Schools

à Middle Schools

à Elementary Schools

à Schools implementing CCSS in K-2

à Schools implementing CCSS in Writing K-8

Common Core Standards and the Continuum of Literacy Learning

Event Date(s) May 29, 2012 - May 30, 2012

This two-part workshop will:

· Help teachers align their instruction of early literacy skills to the new California Common Core Standards.

· Provide teachers, (based on the Continuum of Literacy Skills), with strategies, activities and tools to support their implementation of the Common Core Standards.

· Teachers will be guided through an in-depth look at the Common Core Power Standards.

Cost:

Part 1 (only) — $75.00 per person, May 29, 2012

Reading For Information and Informational Writing

Part 2 (only) — $75.00 per person, May 30, 2012

Reading for Literature and Narrative Writing

Parts 1 and 2 — $100.00 pays both sessions, must be the same individual.

Registration includes the book, The Continuum of Literacy Learning PreK-2 by Fountas and Pinnell, and continental breakfast. (Lunch on your own.)

TK Professional Learning Community

Event Date May 29, 2012

Come join us as we launch our first TK PLC! As the 2012 school year approaches, school districts will be launching Transitional Kindergarten. This is an opportunity for educators to collaborate and share resources as they begin the work with our youngest kindergarteners. All Preschool through 3^rd grade educators are welcome to attend.

o Enjoy a culture of collaboration

o Work in partnership to plan and revise TK lessons

o Build relationships with other teachers

o Share resources

o Share challenges, successes, and strategies

o Share the work

o Experience continuous learning

Next Generation Science Standards Review

Event Date May 30, 2012

Next Generation Science Standards Review

· Clarity and Specificity

· Integrated Performance Expectations

· Coherence of Performance Expectation

· Achievability and Preparedness by teachers, schools, districts, regions, states

· Instructional Implications of the Performance Expectations

***THIS MEETING IS IN TEH SYCAMORE ROOM***

English Learner Professional Development (ELPDI) grades K-5

Event Date(s) Jun 04, 2012 - Jun 08, 2012
This K-5 professional development is designed to augment the instruction teachers are currently offering their English Learners. This is a strategy-based curriculum for teachers who have already completed the initial 40-hour training in Reading/English Language Arts or Mathematics. This training can be used as part of the 80-hour follow-up hours.

Science for the Sake of Science!

Event Date Jun 05, 2012

***Please note this meeting will take place in the Sequoia Room!***
Join us for an evening of networking and sharing of our passion for science.
Reasons for getting together:

To recognize and utilize the many wonderful science

teachers in our local area that can provide expert

professional development.

To bring science teachers together that would otherwise not

have the opportunity to work with other science teachers.

To create a network of science teachers passionate about

teaching science.

To provide a forum for sharing and disseminating effective

science activities and programs.

To provide local schools inexpensive science professional

development.

FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHING -SUMMER 2012

(20 Day Event) Jun 08, 2012 - Aug 04, 2012
A nine-unit mandatory pre-requisite course to enter the IMPACT Intern Credential program.