Plymouth Registration

Back by popular demand from 2011 Feel the magic of working with students who consistently listen both to you and to their peers, constantly share their ideas, and unfailingly assume responsibility for understanding by asking clarifying questions! Create a safe classroom environment where students value their own learning, as well as the learning of their peers. Initiate strategies that empower students to assume responsibility for learning. Discuss how listening is a skill, not a behavior. This session addresses the accom/mod licensure requirement.

New session this year Have you ever worried about students who cut, burn, pierce, or tattoo themselves, eat too little or too much, threaten to commit suicide, or engage in repetitive puzzling behaviors? This session will provide an overview of several mental health challenges faced by teens; including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating, and Depression with suicidal thoughts. Additionally, features of Borderline Personality Disorder will be discussed and participants will leave with a tip sheet outlining classroom behavior strategies. This session addresses the mental health requirement.

New session this year This session will provide participants with an overview of how to create lessons using SMART Notebook software. We will discuss basic principles on SMART Notebook software. We will also discuss how to pull materials from the internet, and incorporate them into SMART Notebook files. Participants will learn: *How to incorporate SMART Board use like daily use of a whiteboard or blackboard. *To establish basic skill on the SMART Board *To illustrate how to bring in Audio on the SMART Board *To show how to link using SMART Notebook *To demonstrate how to use material from the internet or other sources with SMART Notebook *To identify useful tools from the Media Gallery and how to incorporate them This session addresses the technology licensure requirement.

New session this year This is the teacher training class you didn’t get in college. What do chariot races have to do with classroom management? How might Flow theory transform classroom activities? How does the advent of the smartphone change the meaning of everything that happens in class? Mike Smart, Innovations Coach Facilitator will lead you through this wide-ranging, eclectic session which will examine a potpourri of innovative ideas, tips, and out of the box strategies to improve what happens in class.

New session this year Each day is an adventure, and school is certainly no exception! How each of us, no matter what our role in school may be, navigates our way through those adventures is unique, not unlike how each of us learns and interacts with the world. By engaging in different activities utilizing accommodations, modifications and/or adaptations you will discover strategies you and those around you use to work your way through school type tasks successfully. You’re sure to learn something new about your daily survival skills while working to meet the Accommodations, Modifications and Adaptations license renewal requirement.