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For student essays to be detailed and thorough, a well- planned writing prompt is the first step in supporting your students. This course teaches you five main types of writing prompts: narrative, creative, expository, persuasive, and reading response. You’ll learn a simple structure to follow when designing each writing prompt plus examples representative of grades k-12 writing expectations.

 This quick course will help you plan for the design of a strong substitute teacher folder so that in the event of your absence, your substitute teacher can successfully deliver lessons. STRONG sub folder components are defined, with guidance on how to plan for your absence and ensure that your students will experience productive learning under your sub.

This course will demonstrate the importance of supporting the writing progress of ELL students and teach participants several specific support strategies they can implement in their classroom to support their ELL students through all stages of the writing process (before, during, and after writing). This course will also discuss how to monitor and assess ELL student growth in writing to ensure that all students are making progress.

Building clear and consistent processes that promote your classroom expectations can help you build a predictable environment to support effective student learning. This course will show you the specific processes to effectively manage your classroom and maintain order throughout your lesson cycle. Through detailed analysis and application of the strategies presented throughout this course, you will learn how to decrease disruptions and improve student learning.

Gifted and Talented (GT) students often face challenging curriculum that requires significant effort, determination, and resilience. Your goal to help your GT students persevere and to meet the high expectations of your classroom can be supported through Growth Mindset strategies. This online course provides you with the resources, strategies, and methods to foster Growth Mindset in your GT students.

CONTENT AREAS:

• Gifted & Talented
• Social/Emotional Learning
• Lesson & Curriculum Planning
• Teaching Strategies

 Learn simple strategies to move students toward authentic engagement in your classroom. This Quick Course explains the three main types of engagement, reviews the levels of engagement, and provides strategies for specific elements of teaching that you can use to engage your students. The course also comes with a printable reflection guide to help you plan and implement what you have learned.

CONTENT AREAS:

• Class Management /Behavior
• Social /Emotional
• Lesson & Curriculum Planning
• Teaching Strategies

This quick course will provide you with methods to teach specific problem-solving strategies to students in your math or math-based science class. You will learn some common challenges students face when completing word problems, and some solutions teachers can use to address. The course also comes with student-facing printable resources that can be used to help reinforce the problem-solving strategy you choose for your classroom.

 This quick course will teach you a purpose and structure for introducing poster presentations into your gifted and talented science classroom. You will learn the requirements for students to construct their own experiments, analyze data, and then report their results in a gallery walk format. You will also receive a poster template and a planning guide for use in your classroom.

CONTENT AREAS:

• Science
• Gifted & Talented
• Teaching Strategies
• 21st Century Learning

This quick course will help you better understand your students that have been diagnosed with dyslexia. You will learn about the common weaknesses in certain skills for children with dyslexia, common symptoms of dyslexia, and general strategies and ideas to incorporate into your classroom so that all students can be successful. The course also comes with a printable guide to help provide you with easy-to-implement ideas to build a nurturing environment that supports your students with dyslexia.

CONTENT AREAS:

• Special Education / Needs
• Teaching Strategies
• Social / Emotional Learning

This was copied directly from the website:  "AdLit 101 is designed to help you get up to speed on recent research and policy developments, to give you some practical advice on infusing reading and writing skills into your instruction, and to point you towards a wide range of resources."

This was copied directly from the website:  "Organizations like the American Library Association, the National Book Award, and We Need Diverse Books present awards annually or biennially to the very best in children's, middle-grade, and YA books. Browse the awards listed to discover inspiring books for young readers." As always, materials should be reviewed for alignment with age, topics, grades, standards, etc.

This was copied directly from the website: "This is a free webinar series where educators and parents can get free take-aways, learn about various series, gain immediate implementation ideas, etc." Seven webinars are included.

This is copied directly from the website:  "In this informative session, Georgia’s Suicide and Crisis Response team presenters from the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities share how schools can utilize the three prongs of Georgia’s 988: someone to call, someone to respond, and a safe place for help, to support students and families with mental health needs. Common myths are addressed and participants are equipped with confidence in utilizing the service and spreading awareness. A recent Georgia study revealed only 30% of Georgians were aware of 988 and of those respondents, only 54% accurately understood its purpose as Georgia’s Suicide & Crisis Response line. View this recording to see current data and future goals for 988 implementation and response."  (1 hour)

There are 26 videos on instructional strategies that can be used in social studies. The target for these videos is 2nd grade teachers; however, these can be adapted to other grade levels. Assessment strategies are included.

 This is copied directly from the GPB website:  "Welcome to Chemistry Matters – a new digital series for high school chemistry from Georgia Public Broadcasting! The series is comprised of 12 units of study divided into segments. Under each segment you will find support materials designed to enhance student understanding of the content. Complete and submit this form to request the teacher toolkit. The Chemistry Matters teacher toolkit provides instructions and answer keys for labs, experiments, and assignments for all 12 units of study. GPB offers the teacher toolkit at no cost to Georgia educators." There are 113 videos included on the link that you will be provided.

What type of instruction do the Science Georgia Standards of Excellence call for? This session explores three-dimensional science instruction and the implications for assessment. Resources to support the shift in science instruction are shared.

This is a virtual presentation from GaDOE on how to use SuitCASE and Inspire.  It includes all the resources to present a professional development training.