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 Our
on-site professional development
workshops are hands-on, motivating and can be offered in
a variety of formats.
When you reserve an Inservice
Solutions workshop, you can feel good about providing
your teachers with the tools your students need to excel.
Choose from the topics below or
contact us so we can
help you create a custom program for your
school.
Workshop Descriptions
The Differentiated Classroom (Grades K-12)
This interactive workshop will provide teachers with a
wealth of practical ideas for implementing
differentiated strategies and activities in their
classrooms. Participants will be able to reach the wide
range of learners they encounter more effectively, from
the struggling to the high-achieving. Teachers will
leave this exciting workshop with an understanding of
the ways to differentiate lessons, armed with ready to
use time-saving activities.
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Writing Teachers, Writing Students
(Grades K-12)
Cross-listed workshop: English, Elementary & Across the Curriculum
This workshop will encourage teachers to become practicing
writers for their own professional development so they
become better teachers of writing. In addition, it will offer
approaches for evaluating student writing, paper management
strategies and will conclude with a plan to build a writing
friendly school by creating a community of teachers who write.
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Implementing RTI: Academic and Behavioral Interventions (Grades K-12)
This research-based workshop will guide teachers through the
Response to Intervention (RTI) process. The presenter will
demonstrate interactive exercises, user-friendly tools,
practical how-tos, and reproducibles for team building. Example
activities and strategies of the three tiers of intervention
will be modeled. Participants will learn techniques to monitor
individual student progress, plan specific follow-up
interventions, and modify existing instruction to support
student success.
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Making Schools Plagiarism-Proof (Grades
7-12)
Cross-listed workshop: English & Across the Curriculum
Can plagiarism be prevented without turning teachers into
investigators and prosecutors? Yes. Can an educational community
take steps to inoculate itself from the epidemic of plagiarism
now sweeping schools? You bet. This is a sobering session on
what schools don't want to face about plagiarism, why honor
codes have become a joke and what can be done about it. It's
also a workshop on resourceful pedagogy, where educators will be
shown assignments resistant to academic dishonesty, which lead
students toward their best selves.
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Dorks, Nerds and Wimps: Confronting Bullying in the Classroom
(Grades 7-12)
This interactive workshop will demonstrate ways to help students think, discuss and
write about the causes and effects of bullying. Teachers will
leave with enough materials for at least five lessons to help
their students overcome this growing problem destructive to the
school community.
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Teaching Tolerance Through Shared Writing (Grades 7-12)
Cross-listed workshop: English & Across the Curriculum
The best way to understand "other" is to hear life stories of
those unlike ourselves. This workshop provides strategies for
writing and sharing our lives in ways that teach first-rate
writing skills, including revision, while promoting tolerance
that will strengthen classroom solidarity.
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Using Teacher Study Groups to Build a
Community of Learners
(Grades K-12)
Teacher study groups are gaining in popularity as a way of
building a community of learners within schools. By attending
this hands-on workshop, teachers will learn a variety of
strategies needed to implement this powerful staff development
approach. The presenter will demonstrate various ways to encourage
discussions of educational materials, help teachers solve
educational problems, evaluate classroom techniques and offer
new ideas for developing effective leadership skills.
Participants will receive a handout booklet of strategies.
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Reading and Writing Across the Content Areas (Grades
4-8 & 9-12)
Cross-listed workshop: English, Elementary & Across the
Curriculum
New Jersey is one of many states that has adopted the National
Common Core Curriculum Standards that require literacy be taught
in all content areas. This workshop will emphasize activities
that address the type of reading and writing skills required in
the new standards. During this workshop teachers will have the
opportunity to create new literacy lesson plans to engage all
levels of students and prepare them for reading and writing on
state and standardized tests.
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NJ ASK and Special Area Subjects (Grades 2-4 & 5-8)
Cross-listed workshop: Elementary & Across the Curriculum
This workshop will empower art, music, physical education and
technology teachers by familiarizing them with the requirements
of the tests so they can contribute to their students' success.
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Perspectives on Media (Grades 7-12)
Cross-listed workshop: English & Across the Curriculum
Show your students how media filters information and as a result
requires critical evaluation rather than blank acceptance.
Approach video, print, Internet and other forms of media using
strategies that will help students appreciate bias and
understand the machinations of persuasion.
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Sign Language Comes in Handy (Grades K-12)
This workshop will stress nuts and bolts tactics so you can
enable hearing impaired students to be to full participants in
the classroom. Learn the basics of how to communicate with
students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Become acquainted with
the technical equipment hearing impaired students may use to
enhance their educational experience in class. Understand the
role and benefit of using a Sign Language Interpreter and
receive a basic knowledge of the structure and syntax of
American Sign Language. Most importantly learn how to be a
visual teacher! Not only will it capture your hearing impaired
students' attention it's likely engage the whole class as well!
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