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Workshops WorkshopsCreating Success with the TEKS from inside the TAKSBy Gayle Fuller - author of the Step Up to the TAKS series for Reading, Math, Science and Writing.
For registration information, please click here(Pre Registration is REQUIRED) The Creating Success with the TEKS from inside the TAKS workshops, conducted by Gayle, will utilize the knowledge and experience obtained from thoroughly studying the released tests, the specifications, and the TAKS objectives and the Item Analysis. The goal of this valuable workshop is to share ideas for meeting the needs of students and helping to increase their mastery of the TEKS and therefore the TAKS levels. There will be fun and exciting hands-on activities as well as information leading to some “Ah-ha” moments. Gayle has been attending the Brain Expo in San Diego for the past several years. She goes to learn more about “Teaching Smarter, Rather Than Harder.” Eric Jensen, author of Teaching with the Brain in Mind, brings to the expo, experts in the area of brain research and teachers who are having success in teaching the way the brain learns best. Gayle presented “Where is the Glue?” at the Brain Expo, in San Diego last January. This workshop addressed the concerns she hears at all her workshops. “I taught it, they knew it, they just forgot it during the test. How can I make learning stick?” The glue is in understanding the brain and how it learns best. Gayle will be demonstrating brain research methods of teaching as she guides teachers in these TAKS workshops. The glue in her presentation will prove to be quite humorous, unusual, and knowledgeable. Come and see her in action as she “spreads the glue.” Description of Reading Workshop: (First Day on the Schedule) Participants: Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Grade Teachers Creating Reading Detectives Reading detectives read the lines, read between the lines and read beyond the lines. As reading detectives, teachers will read the questions assessing the mastery of the reading TEKS, read between these questions and read beyond these questions to understand the thinking process necessary to solve these questions. If teachers understand the depth of what is being assessed, then they can model the thinking process to create critical readers. Gayle will spend a day transforming elementary teachers into reading detectives so they can create reading detectives of their students. Description of Math Workshop: (Second Day on the Schedule) Participants: Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Grade Teachers Creating Mathematicians Mathematicians solve problems mathematically, apply math to real life, and know numbers. Mathematicians speak mathematically, verbally communicate strategies, know the fact families, know multiples, use problem solving and have fun with math. Gayle will spend a day transforming elementary teachers into mathematicians so they can create mathematicians of their students. Fee: $75 per day per teacher (Administrator accompanying teachers will not be charged, but must register and if you have 5 or more of your team attend the price per day per teacher will be $50.00.) Please Bring: Campus' Item Analysis |
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