Workshop Menu

We'll gladly customize a workshop to meet your programs needs. Here are some sample workshop modules.

TWO-DAY WORKSHOP

All four modules can be completed in two full-day sessions.

ONE-DAY WORKSHOP

If you desire a one-day workshop (6 to 7 hours), some of the best combinations are:

• Module 1 and 2
• Module 1 and 3
• Module 1 and 4
• Module 2 and 4
• Module 2 and 3

Module One

Integrating Career Guidance and Technology into the Academic Classroom -180 minutes (3 hours)

Lecture/activities - 120 minute

Technology discussion - 60 minutes

Workshop participants:

•  Explore a progressive model for motivating students while reinforcing basic academic skills

•  Delve into award-winning materials that successfully integrate core academics, technology, and career guidance

•  Discuss the advantages of integrated, thematic learning in the academic classroom

•  Investigate various integrated and interdisciplinary course structures

•  Understand why technology integration is important

•  Learn the basic technology skills required in today's marketplace, and brainstorm how to infuse them into any lesson plan

Module Two

How to Integrate the Internet into the Academic Classroom - 150+ minutes

Online activities - 150 minutes

Workshop participants:

•  Learn how to evaluate web sites for use in any classroom

•  Study what common characteristics the best instructional web sites share

•  Learn how to develop Internet linked lessons

•  Gain hands-on experience with a successful model for integrating career guidance and technology

•  Practice basic Internet navigation skills

•  Discover strategies for using technology integration to build SCANS skills

Module Three

Math, Career Guidance and Technology - A winning combination - 180 minutes

Lecture/activities - 90 minutes

Technology discussion - 30 minutes

Online activities - 60 minutes

Workshop participants:

•  Explore the integration of math, career guidance, and technology using a real-world format

•  Complete a personalized financial planning activity designed to motivate students and demonstrate the importance of math

•  Discuss what makes successful math students

•  Gain hands-on experience with an online math correction web site

•  Learn how technology enhances learning by providing easy access to dynamic information

Module Four

Classroom Strategies and Tips for the Career Choices teacher - 180 to 360 minutes

Lecture - 60 to 120 minutes

Hands-on activities - 120 to 240 minutes

This module is especially well suited for:

•  Schools that have adopted the Career Choices curriculum and need training for the teachers who are going to be teaching the course.

•  English/Languages Arts teachers to demonstrate how they can incorporate a career and life-planning theme into their academic classroom.

Workshop participants:

•  Investigate and become comfortable with the interdisciplinary aspects of the curriculum

•  Explore the comprehensive Instructor's Guide , a valuable resource they'll refer to for ideas and support

•  Actively participate in actual activities, brainstorming, and discussions -- the same content they'll cover with their own students

•  Visualize the planning process -- so when they leave the workshop they're committed, willing, and enthusiastic about the prospect of teaching it

•  Understand they can teach academic skills at the same time they teach an important life process

FACILITIES REQUIRED:

Each of the above workshops require:

•  A room with round tables for the lecture/activity portion

•  A computer lab with each computer linked to the Internet and staffed by a technician. Ideally, each workshop participant should have their own computer, but the workshop is still valuable if two participants share a computer.

Please contract with us as early as possible to ensure availability!

Call Tanja Easson for more information.

(800) 967-8016, ext. 327

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