Holliston

=Holliston Courses= **21st Century Teaching and Learning** **Start/Stop Time**: 8:30 - 2:30, Aug. 25th 9:00 - 12:00 **Registration Contact:** Julie Elkan elkanj@holliston.k12.ma.us Please click on the link to register for [|21st Century Teaching and Learning] and online classes. It addresses the challenge of engaging our digital age students in a purposeful way. This could be using technology in a variety of ways including supporting an enduring understanding, or as a formative or summative assessment. Successful classroom strategies for brain compatible learning using Web 2.0 tools will be integrated with best teaching practices. Participants will learn how to use the tools by creating examples themselves. This is a hands-on course. Lesson plans will focus on the backward design model and the assessment of 21st century skills. These are skills such as collaboration, independent learning, critical thinking and problem solving around real world issues and situations. Particpants will learn how to effectively organize and manage the creation of Podcasts in the classroom and to integrate, a range of Web 2.0 tools such as Voicethread, xtranormal, Google docs, wiki’s, and Nings. Participants will explore the benefits of building communities for students and teachers through the use of social bookmarking and social networking sites such as Nings. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of how to use the resources in Thinkfinity and explore wiki’s in more depth. These skills and technologies will be actively applied to the classroom. Course participants should have basic computer skills including; know how to search the web, understand how to send an email and attach a file and have basic file management skills. Participants are also required to have access to a fairly new computer connected to the internet. Familiarity with Moodle is also advised. If you are new to Moodle please review the new Moodle student tutorial online or download the PDF file before you begin. DATA DRIVEN DIFFERENTIATION ** ****Graduate Credit Approved by:** Framingham State College Please click on the link to register for [|Data Driven Differentiation] __**COURSE DESCRIPTION:**__ Clear evidence of student achievement and skills are necessary in order to design education that will address the needs of all students. Quality curriculum and instruction are the bedrock of education and the avenue to developing thoughtful and fulfilled human beings. Understanding by design reflects the best professional understanding of curriculum. Differentiation reflects the best professional understanding of skilled and flexible instruction. The combination of data, well-designed curriculum, appropriate assessments, and differentiated instruction is the focus of this course. Power standards, unwrapping the standards, designing assessments, analyzing data and creating units of instruction will be addresses in a collaborative environment. __**PREREQUISITES**__ It is requested that teachers register in teams of 2 or more in order to collaborate on a project.
 * Intended Audience:** K-12 Educators
 * Instructor:** Julie Elkan
 * Date(s):** Face to Face Sessions – 7/9, 8/24, 8/25 On-line – 7/10 through 7/21
 * Location:** Robert H. Adams Middle School Library, Holliston
 * Graduate Credit Approved by**: Framingham State College
 * No. of Graduate Credits Available:** 3 **PDPs:** 67.5
 * Cost per Graduate Credit:** $165 (Required)
 * Course Description:** This is a hybrid course, which combines face-to-face
 * Course Requirements**
 * Click this link to access a complete course outline. [[file:21st_Century_Teaching_and_Learning_2010.pdf]]**
 * Course Flyer [[file:21st Century flyersummer2010.doc]]
 * Intended Audience:** PreK – Grade 8 Educators
 * Instructor:** Patricia Horrigan Rourke
 * Date(s):**** July 19-22, July 26 - 29, August 23 **
 * Start/Stop Time:** 1** 2:00 - 4:00 **
 * Location:** ** Miller Elementary School, 235 Woodland St., Holliston, MA
 * No. of Graduate Credits Available**:** 3 **PDPs: 67.5
 * Cost per Graduate Credit**:** $165 (Required) **
 * Registration Contact**: Patricia Horrigan Rourke rourkep@holliston.k12.ma.us
 * Click this link to access a complete course outline. [[file:DataDrivenDifferentiation-10-11-rev6 2.doc]]**