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Professional development connected to
better teaching
"Every hour and every day made my attendance
worthwhile."
Design
beyond the lesson plan, design beyond the day of instruction, to the day two
teachers sit together and have a professional dialog around
"materials of practice"
UPCOMING
EVENTS >
Registration Form
for Phoenix
> July 26-30, 2010:
Many Farms 5-day Institute
> August 2:
Ganado Literacy
Integration
> August 21:
Cavit, Poston High
School Literacy
Integration
> August 28::
Whiteriver
Note taking - Analyzing
student work samples
> September 18:
Cavit Literacy
Integration
Recent events
> June 1-5, 2010:
Phoenix 5-day Institute
> January, 2010:
Whiteriver
1-day student work sample analysis
> January, 11-12,
27-28:
Snowflake 4-day instructional design series
> January 29-30,
February 12-13:
Kayenta 4-day instructional design series
> February 5-6, 19-20:
Phoenix 4-day instructional design series
Teacher change is intensely personal, so we make training personal. See
BLOG
for design tips to help teachers change.
Reading Tools Page
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guarantee satisfaction
Teachers
design materials that generate proof of quality teaching and
integrating reading and writing. Thinking through short improvement
cycles, newly designed classroom evidence is ready to
teach, evaluate, and share at schools.
What we do
Throughout the design process, teachers
invent custom materials that become classroom evidence (i.e., student work
samples) of research-based strategies such as Similarities & Differences,
Advanced Organizers, Note taking & Summarizing, Pre-Assessing, Activating
Prior Knowledge, and Reading and Writing strategies. As teachers
alternate from independent to collaborative work, they produce practical
tools that leverage multiple research-based strategies. Making change
personal, this level of design provides creates a powerful sense of
predictability and control for doing something new. The instructional
design process makes teacher change personal and achievable. Evidence
of classroom change is planned and designed here.
Who we are
Training teachers full-time at
universities for over ten years, Preston Webster now specializes in very
specific strategies that improve teaching and learning. His instructional
design work supports classroom improvement combining research-based,
reading, and writing strategies. He has created over 30 university-level summer institutes,
and many more school-year institutes,
for teachers around Arizona. These institutes, five to eight days in
length, have become laboratories for understanding teacher improvement with
a classroom focus.
Since
1999, Preston Webster has trained hundreds of teachers. With their
help, tools and processes for classroom improvement have evolved to become
more practical, achievable, and effective. Preston uses previous attendees
to create four-person training teams to ensure plenty of one-on-one support
and ongoing collaboration as new learning is connected directly to each
classroom and specific learning objectives.
Training
Staff
Carl Bailey, Adobe
Mountain School, AZ, CBailey@azdjc.gov
Anne Cambridge, Pinon High School, AZ,
acambridge@pusdatsa.org
Marsha Espinosa, Ganado High School, AZ,
Marsha.espinosa@ganado.k12.az.us
Dana Greenwood, Ganado High School, AZ
Dana.greenwood@ganado.k12.az.us
Marilou Joson, Window Rock High School, AZ
Marilouj@wrschool.net
Shelley Petersen, AAEC High School, AZ,
spetersen@aaechighschools.com
Rachel Weiss, AAEC High School, AZ
rweiss@aaechighschools.com
Jon Yazzie, Tuba City High School, AZ,
jyazzie@tcusd.org
Outcomes
Professional development hours - University credits
Standards-based and research-based classroom materials
Prepared to teach and evaluate classroom materials that support quality
teaching
Agenda
Instructional Design, Expository Evidence, Organizers, Reading Tools,
Writing Tools, Note Taking, Leveraging Research-based and Literacy
Strategies
What teachers say
"Every hour and every day made my attendance
worthwhile."
"I have been given incredible tools to improve
my instruction, bring clarity and focus to my lesson planning and tie
instruction directly back to the standards."
"The best workshop I have participated in."
"Excellent hands-on materials and knowledgeable instructors."
"Came away with
products that will work well in my classroom. Can't wait to do the
student work analysis."
"The collaboration with my peers and the
different presentations that were shared using the new formats and tools are
priceless; This was absolutely the most professional, effective, and fun
learning environment."
"Preston's
vision for school improvement is extraordinary." |
Instructional
Design & Academic Integration