Below please find a list of the workshops, training courses, and leadership activities I have participated in for professional development beginning with the most recent:
Teacher’s Training Center for Blended and Online Classroom in the International School
February 3 – April 14, 2014
http://www.theptc.org/online-teacher-promo/
Description: A ten-week course focusing on how to design, manage, facilitate and assess an effective blended and/or online course in an international school setting using simulations, online forums, hands on activities, group projects, and multimedia tools. Focus on collaboration to understand the key components to design, manage, and facilitate a blended and/or online course to enhance student learning.
Claire’s course portfolio
Learning & Technology Exchange Network (L-TEN)
May 2, 2014
Istanbul International Community School
Istanbul, Turkey
http://lten.info/
Description: An on-going professional development platform where educators within Turkey and surrounding communities participate in one day workshops throughout the year to exchange ideas regarding technology in education, including problem solving and inspiration.
Presenter
Digital Portfolios
Creating digital portfolios using Google Docs and blogs to demonstrate the learning process as well as finished products.
Claire’s Digital Portfolio presentation
Google Apps for Education European Summit
October 12 and 13, 2013
http://www.praguesummit.org/
Description: The summit was focused on helping educators get the most out of Google Apps for Education in both primary and secondary school settings.
GAFE Course
April – June 2013
Online Course
http://edurolearning.com/
Description: Google Apps for Education (GAFE) Course with Jeff Utecht is an 8-week course designed for educational professionals to develop and strengthen skills within the Google Apps platform.
Course Completion Certificate
Inquiry Learning – Journeys Through the Thinking Processes
January 2013
Istanbul International Community School
Istanbul, Turkey
Description: A one-day workshop, facilitated by Kath Murdoch, focused on an inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning within a PYP classroom. As well, teachers were introduced to strategies to help deepen students’ understanding, drawing on several ways of investigating and expressing growing understandings.
PYP Training Workshops
September 2012
Istanbul International Community School
Istanbul, Turkey
Description: An in-school, two-day workshop, Category 2 – Assessment, facilitated by Karin Sveilis, which was designed to introduce teachers to the PYP assessment philosophy and strategies within the classroom. Additionally, the workshop helped develop a deeper understanding of assessment and teacher strategies within a PYP classroom.
November 2012
Description: A two-day workshop, facilitated by Sophia Jorstad and Mary Kay Polly, which focused on the philosophy of maths education within the PYP framework. Additionally, workshop helped develop a deeper understanding of maths curriculum and teacher strategies within a PYP classroom.
Learning & Technology Exchange Network (L-TEN)
Istanbul International Community School
Istanbul, Turkey
Description: An on-going professional development platform where educators within Turkey and surrounding communities participate in one day workshops throughout the year to exchange ideas regarding technology in education, including problem solving and inspiration.
May 3, 2013
Co-Presenter LTEN:
Technology Integration
Co-presented on how-to integrate technology into the classroom. I presented using Twitter as a tool to teach sentence fluency and how blogs can increase student engagement in writing.
October 5, 2012
Presenter LTEN:
Digital Citizenship
Presented and lead a 45 minute discussion defining digital citizenship, keeping students safe online, grade level appropriateness, parental involvement, and how different school are handling this subject.
Advantages of Social Networks for Professionals
Presented and lead a 45 minute discussion on the benefits of staying connected focusing on the benefits of the professional development component of social media for educators.
Authentic Assessment and Digital Media in the Classroom
February 4th and 5th, 2011
Yokohama, Japan
Description: An EARCOS weekend workshop led by Andrew Churches and Kim Cofino to help teachers understand how to successfully and enjoyably bring the exciting world of digital media into the classroom environment.
Learning 2.001
September 8th through September 10th, 2011
Shanghai, China
Description: An educational conference focusing on technology and change in the classroom rather than on teaching a set of tools to use in the classroom. The focus of the conference is about how to change classrooms to improve learning and how students can become valuable participants in the world of 2012 and beyond.
Principals’ Training Center for International School Leadership (PTC)
June 18th through June 25th, 2011
Miami, Florida
Description: Focused on leadership to efficiently explore and harness the power of technology to maximize learning, improve teacher effectiveness, and reinvent school-wide systems. Explored the practical aspects of technology and curriculum, professional learning communities, classroom practice, ‘change’ and teacher supervision and evaluation.
Apple Education Leadership Summit
March 4th through March 6th, 2011
School of The Arts, Singapore
Description: An interactive event for education leaders committed to finding innovative ways to help teachers teach and students learn.
21c Leadership Academy
November 29th and 30th, 2010
Hong Kong, China
Description: Based on current research and best practices, the workshop facilitated a hands-on, learner-centric experience for educators to explore the current and emerging trends for digital learning, and what it means to be a learner in the 21st century classroom. This workshop explored issues facing administration and to understand how technology can be used to meet the needs of next generation learners.
ASCD Understanding by Design (UbD)
September 18th and 19th, 2010
American International School of Guangzhou, China
Description: Two-day, 15 hour ACSD approved EARCOS Weekend Workshop focused on developing UbD curricular units, including developing essential questions, enduring understandings, and assessment. Units developed for use on Atlas Rubicon.
Building Academic Language for English Learners With Dr. Gini Rojas
September 10th and 11th, 2010
Shekou International School, Shenzhen, China
Description: Two-day EARCOS Workshop focused on developing time-honored EAL strategies, strategies for increasing English Learners’ vocabulary usage, reading comprehension, and writing engagement, and strategies for differentiating instruction in mainstream content-area classes.
Imagine Learning (English Learners)
Chula Vista Elementary School District 2009
Description: A computer program used to help develop literacy, vocabulary skills, and listening and speaking skills in English Language Learners.
ERIA
Chula Vista Elementary School District 2008
Description: Focus on vocabulary instruction
Fourth Grade Writer’s Workshop
Chula Vista Elementary School District 2008
Description: Focus on teaching writing for 4th grade writing test (Summary, Narrative, Response to Literature, grammar, revising, and editing).
Wilda Storm – Write Up a Storm
Chula Vista Elementary School District 2005
Description: Instructional program to teach students the basics in conventions, grammar, sentence fluency, organization, topic development, and the use of explicit vocabulary
Rick Morris – Classroom Management
Chula Vista Elementary School District 2006
Description: Tips and techniques for classroom management
DIBELS Training
Chula Vista Elementary School District 2005
Description: Training course to administer an exam for students that focus on fluency and reading comprehension
Leadership Activities:
- Technology SIT at Shekou International School 2010-2012
- Instructional Leadership Team at Thurgood Marshall 2007-2008
- Technology Committee at Thurgood Marshall 2005 to 2010
- District Science Leadership Team at Harborside Accelerated 2004 – 2005
- District Curriculum Mapping Team for Science at Harborside Accelerated 2004 – 2005
Fleet Inquiry Institute: 2004-2005
- an open-ended, inquiry-based strategies to teaching science
- exploration of basic principles in questioning techniques
- process skill development
- learning through investigation
- enrich understanding of the inquiry process through formative assessment
- science note-booking
- adapting curriculum toward student controlled learning
Inquiry Learning Partnership: 2005-2007
- M.A. at the University of San Diego in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education.
- A teacher training program modeled after the Fleet Inquiry Institute and funded through a California Mathematics and Science Partnership Grant (CaMSP) designed to increase student academic achievement through the deepening of teacher content knowledge and inquiry-based pedagogy.
Claire Wachowiak's Portfolio 