Target Audience: K-12 General Education and Exceptional Student Education Teachers who partner in serving students with disabilities in an inclusive service delivery model (Support Facilitation, Co-Teaching). Teachers are expected to attend with their collaborating partner.

Course Objective: Participants will understand the roles and responsibilities of the general educator and ESE educator in the planning and implementation of instruction in an inclusive setting.

Course Description: Strategies for successful collaboration will be shared and resources to support implementation will be provided.  Five collaborative teaching approaches will be modeled and taught including parallel teaching, station teaching, alternative teaching, team teaching and one teach/one support.

Collaborative Teaching in Elementary/Secondary Schools: Making the Co-Teaching Marriage Work!, by Wendy W. Murawski will be provided to all participants.

Implementation Activity: Either student engagement data or progress monitoring pre- and post- data are required prior to receiving 12 inservice credits.  

Follow Up Method: Email communication and coaching throughout the implementation period, as well as on-site coaching (per participant request) will be available.

If you have any questions related to this course please contact: EMcCann@contactFIN.com

Target Audience: Educators Grades K-8

Course Objective: Participants learn how to develop a learning environment focused on clear, consistent expectations that increases learner engagement and provides every student the opportunity to be academically successful.

Course Description: Our goal for this day is to support teachers in the development of a cohesive classroom management plan that supports student achievement.  Components of the classroom management plan include:

• guidelines & rules

• class organization

• student expectations (utilizing the CHAMPS acronym)

• classroom procedures & routines

• class & student motivation

• early stage corrections

We focus on a 3-step process for communicating expectations:

1. teach the expectations

2. observe student behavior

3. provide meaningful feedback

Each participant will receive a CHAMPS Teacher Planner published by Safe & Civil Schools.

Implementation Activity: Classroom behavior system pre- and post- data are required prior to receiving 12 inservice credits.  

Follow Up Method: Email communication and coaching throughout the implementation period, as well as on-site coaching (per participant request) will be available.

Target Audience: Peers as Partners in Learning Teachers of Record

Course Description: This book study will examine Dr. Carol S. Dweck's Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. The goal of the course is to have an understanding of growth mindset and growth mindset language in instruction to more actively engage learners in increased motivation, effort, and perseverance.

Completion of all assignments is mandatory prior to receiving 16 inservice credits.

If you have any questions related to this course please contact: rosemarie.bedesem@fdlrsaction.org