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School Based Professional Development
Sample Topics for Presentations include:
Ensuring the success of every child
- Exactly what is a middle school?
- Understanding young adolescents
- Responding to the needs of young adolescents
- Transitioning to an effective middle school
- Advisory: training and implementation
- Inclusion at the middle level
- Creating a schedule that works
- High achieving middle level schools
- Co-teaching strategies
- Gifted/talented students
Relevant curriculum grounded in standards
- Curriculum mapping
- Using data to make curriculum decisions and drive instruction
- Integrating curriculum
- Designing interdisciplinary units
- Teaching a standards-based curriculum
- Connecting the unified arts
- Using "backward" designs
Instructional methodologies for young adolescent
- Promoting appropriate grouping practices
- Teaching in a heterogeneous classroom
- Differentiating instruction
- Reading and writing across the curriculum
- Assessing students and reporting progress
- Teaching tips and strategies
- Using data for instructional decisions
- Integrating technology into classroom instruction
Opportunities for middle level professionals
- Understanding the nature and needs of young adolescents
- Classrooom management skills
- Teacher-to-teacher sharing opportunities
- Mentoring for new middle level teachers
- Emergency Middle School Training (EMST) introducing new personnel to middle level
- Support for middle level administrators
- Facilitating study groups for middle level educators
Creating a community-organizational structure
- Teaming—the heart of a middle school
- So we're a team...now what?
- Effective teaming—the next level
- Unified arts as a team
- Team leader training
- Looping, multiage and/or other
Governing democratically
- Leading at the middle level
- Developing teacher leaders
- Involving all school constituencies
- Developing a vision with school-wide agreement
- Helping students learn to lead
Providing a safe and healthy learning environment
- Designing a new school
- Adapting current space to meet new needs
- Promoting appropriate grouping practices
- Peer mediation and conflict resolution
- Creating a positive school climate based on respect
- Classroom management skills
- Designing school crisis plans
- Comprehensive guidance programs
Involving parents and communities
- What is a middle school and why is it unique?
- Homework: perspectives and possibilities
- The challenges of the middle school years
- Middle level schools: what research says
- Flexible grouping at the middle level
- Making connections—how to bring the community to school
- Facilitation services
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