Skillful Teacher K-12

Instructor: Jim Warnock

What characterizes schools that make a significant impact on student achievement? How do we help students exert effective effort to meet demanding performance standards? What do communities of skillful teachers do to help students acquire essential skills and knowledge? We will use current research, case studies, collaborative inquiry and problem solving, video clips, and ongoing reflection about our experiments and data to construct powerful understandings about what makes a difference for our own students in our own classrooms.

In this practical, highly interactive course, participants will:

plan and implement standards-based lessons,

practice "no secrets" communication,

teach students to believe in and use "effective effort" strategies,

provide standards-based feedback on student work,

collect and analyze data about student achievement problems,

chip away at negative beliefs students hold about their capacity to learn,

match instructional strategies to targeted outcome.

Instructor Jim Warnock has served in public education for 23 years as a teacher, staff developer, principal, and assistant superintendent. He has presented both nationally and abroad and has assisted school districts in strategic planning, improvement of instruction, and the development of teacher evaluation programs. His particular areas of interest and expertise include teacher induction, supervision, and evaluation.

Two fall follow-up days, scheduled as release days, will be required for course completion. 4.5 CEU's or Graduate Credit