For the October 25th Professional Development Day, I did two workshops through POPARD.
Category: Standard #7
Educators engage in professional learning.
Language Essentials for Teachers
This book was covered in EDUC 397: Curriculum and Instruction in the Humanities. It provides in depth explanations of phonetics, phonology, orthography, morphology, syntax, semantics, and structured language and literacy instruction.
For EDUC 398, Curriculum & Instruction in Math and Science Using ADST, one of the requirements was to complete the first unit of the Math Minds online course.
Brain Pocket Strategies to Support a Year-Long Writing Program
By Adrienne Gear
I became familiar with this resource during my first practicum. I was in a grade 2/3 split class and my coaching teacher suggested that I follow Adrienne Gear’s writing structure.
By Joanna Faber and Julie King
I listened to this audio book before the start of my first practicum in order to have some tools for talking to kids. Although I’ve worked in schools for a few years, I don’t have kids of my own and I wanted to have more confidence and understanding when talking to little kids.
By Charles Duhigg
I started listening to The Power of Habit based on personal interest. However, there are several concepts related to organizational culture that could easily be applied to a classroom setting.