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"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."  Alvin Toffler

UPCOMING EVENTS >
> 4-Day Series:  Chine Jan. 9-10 and Jan. 30-31
> 5-Day Summer 2009:  June 22-26 (NATIVE Only) ASU West
> 5-Day Summer 2009:   6/28 (Sun.) - 7/2 (Thur.) ASU West
6/28 - 7/2 Open to all Arizona Teachers
Contact Preston to reserve seats
 

What we do
Whether responding to challenges to improvement, integrating academics, or adjusting to changes in curriculum and testing, teachers can feel confident in their ability to demonstrate achievement.  Collaborating with others, learn how practical lesson planning produces tools that clarify and focus instruction, and learn how these teacher-created materials leverage research-based strategies while providing solid evidence of academic integration.

Teachers test and fit new ideas  with current beliefs and practices while meeting specific classroom needs.  Teachers alternate from independent to collaborative work, sharing ideas as they invent and design clarity, predictability, and control for very specific moments of classroom instruction.  Throughout the process, teachers invent tools that become tangible evidence (student work samples) of teaching and learning goals shared by CTE and academic administrators.  These tools produce student work samples as classroom evidence of teaching and learning.

Who we are
Preston Webster is employed by ASU's Workforce Education and Development Office.  He is contracted by The Northeast Arizona Technological Institute of Vocational Education (N.A.T.I.V.E.) to provide staff development to its CTE teachers across the Navajo Nation.  The school districts include Chinle, Ganado, Kayenta, Pinon, Red Mesa, Sanders, Tuba City, and Window Rock.

Staff Development (Instructional design for traditional and video classrooms)
In addition to on-site training, sessions are provided from an H.323 videoconference classroom at ASU.  Over 40 NATIVE classrooms are now capable of two-way videoconferencing.

We've now concluded our 2008 eight-day summer institutes.  In addition to four and five-day institutes, 2008 was our 27th eight-day program.

Increased student achievement is largely a result of improved instruction.  And improved instruction is largely the result of better, clearer, more detailed, research-based lessons AND support material.

Arizona State University * Workforce Education and Development Office
Phone: 928-243-1927 * Preston.webster@asu.edu * Revised:  02/05/2009