Summer Workshop Series
Sponsored by the Salem State Collaborative Project for
Math, Science and Interdisciplinary Education (CPMSIE) and
the Beverly Public Schools
Dates: All workshops are three day workshops - July 7,
8, and 9
Location: Hannah Elementary School, R41 Brimbal Avenue,
Beverly, MA. Ph. #
978-921-6126
Time: 8 AM to 1
PM (No Lunch)
15 PDP’s or 1 Non-Degree Graduate Credit (Project
Required)
Cost: $65
Collaborative Members $275
Non-Collaborative Members
Workshop 1: Open Response Writing Grades
3-6
Presenter: Joan Pokrant, Reading and
Language Arts Consultant
Description: Data from MCAS scores suggest that some students know more than they show in their response answers. For other students, open response questions may reveal a lack of deep understanding — an inability to go further up Bloom’s taxonomy of thinking. This workshop will help you to improve the quality of open response answers in all content areas including response to literature.
At these three sessions you will learn to:
may be used daily in the classroom
Workshop 2: Demystifying the Social Studies Frameworks for Grades 3-5
Presenter: Helen Sellers,
Grade 5 Teacher, Reading Public Schools
Description:
This workshop will have the sharing of resources, activities, field trip
ideas and background content information to meet the different American History
or US Geography Standards. Participants should bring favorite materials or
textbooks that they use.
Session 1: What's in these Frameworks anyway- and
how do we meet all these standards?
Session 2: Background information needed to
successfully teach these standards-resourcing primary sources to help students.
Adult texts that would help build successful background knowledge for the
teacher.
Session 3: Sharing of best practices for Grades
3-5
Workshop 3: How to Teach Reluctant Writers in Grades 2-6
Presenters: Liz Lund and Helena Meyer, Language Arts
Consultants
Description: We have identified six important strategies that will
meet the needs of reluctant writers.
Workshop
participants will obtain:
Session
I Strategy #1 (Having an
Audience) & Strategy #2 (Using Technology)
Session
II Strategy #3(Writing About
Personal Interests) & Strategy #4 (Writing withPeers)
Session
III Strategy #5 (Breaking Writing
Down Into Smaller Parts) &
Strategy #6 (Incorporating Art & Music Into
Writing) Strategies for Parents and Sharing
Experiences
Workshop 4: The Art of Math, Grades K – 5
Presenter: Deb
Whitmore, Capt. Samuel Brown School, Peabody Public Schools
Description:
Participants
will make and take art projects that will enhance units of study in
mathematics. Integrating math and art allows for hands-on exploration of math
concepts that may include number sense, patterns, relations, measurement, etc.,
which result in deeper understanding for the learner. Art techniques may include origami, tessellations,
symmography (line art), paper weaving, paper engineering, collage, etc.
Workshop 5: Fostering Inquiry in the Pre-k to 2 Classroom
Presenter: Ann Harney,
Elementary Science Consultant
Description: What is inquiry? What does it look like in the
elementary science classroom What does the learning
environment look like that supports inquiry?
This Pre K-2 workshop is designed to help practicing elementary teachers answer these questions. Working collaboratively, participants will develop their understanding of inquiry through investigations, explorations, journal readings, and discussion.
We will be looking at the children’s literature that supports the scientific investigations and connecting our explorations to the Massachusetts Science and Technology
/Engineering Framework
Workshop 6: Engineering is
Elementary, Grades 2-5
Presenter: Gail Naylor,
Lynnfield Public Schools
Description: “Everyone Engineers!” is a favorite motto of a Museum of Science program, Engineering is Elementary. Learn how you already have great engineering instincts and discover ways to bring your students’ learning to life, while addressing key content strands in the science frameworks.
First, we will look at how these units are organized in a clear, easy-to-use manner. Then we will experiment with three different student kits. In the acoustical engineering kit, students learn the difference between pitch and volume as they create musical instrument and listen to bird calls. The Marvelous Machines kit has students exploring and discussing simple machines, technological processes and industrial engineering. In the Solids, Liquids, and Chemical Engineering kit students study and analyze the physical reactions between selections of play dough materials. All of the kits have adaptations for a variety of grade levels and they blend well with the state framework requirements.
Registration Information:
Please register at our website www.salemcollaborative.org, or email the following information to Jim Kearns at registration@salemcollaborative.org. If you have registration questions, please call Jim at 781-771-4860.
Make checks or Purchase Orders payable to CPMSIE and Bring to the Session
DEADLINE to sign up for the Beverly Summer Institute Workshops is
June 30th .