2011 Professional Development Schedule

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Bring History Alive with Hands-On labs

Learn how hands-on history labs can truly engage all students. In this workshop, teachers make peanut butter, dragon kites, paper planes, and barometers. In addition, teachers learn how to integrate the National Park Service in their classroom. Free materials are distributed on other engaging labs such as model canoes and water wheels. Suggested for grades k-12.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Enhancing your Visit to a National Historic Site (Arkansas History)
Interrogate. Engage. Explore. Before your students visit a new place, learn how to prepare them and enhance their experience by participating in a field trip-based workshop. Educators will have the opportunity to tour Little Rock Central High School, learn how to apply for our statewide Field Trip Reimbursement program, and learn how to incorporate the curriculum and strategies that enhance students' experiences at the site. Suggested for grades 5-12.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Integrate Technology: Using the Civil Rights Movement (Arkansas History)
Learn how to effectively integrate technology into the curriculum. In this workshop participants learn how technology can engage students and improve academic achievement. Participants will examine advanced PowerPoint, Windows Movie Maker, Microsoft Office Excel and Publisher, and webpage design using html and Weebly. Suggested for grades 3-12.

Saturday, January 21, 2012
National Park Foundation- Park Steward Award
The Park Stewards Program provides opportunities for high school teachers to connect resources in a national park to their classrooms through a service learning/volunteer program. The program gives high school teachers and students the opportunity to explore the relevance of national parks to their lives and encourages them to become civically-engaged stewards of their national parks. In this workshop, learn how one teacher integrated civil rights in her self-contained class after receiving a $7,000 award from the National Park Foundation, which was made possible by the Bank of America Foundation. Suggested for grades 3 - 12.

Saturday, February 11, 2012
Literature Circles: Integrate civil rights through the use of Literature

In this workshop, participants use award-winning Literature on the topic of civil rights and an instructional strategy (Jigsaw) to create interactive posters to learn content and vocabulary. Suggested for grades 2-12

Saturday, March 3, 2012
Integrating Windows Movie Maker Using the Civil Rights Movement (Arkansas History)

Have you used Photo Story 3 for Windows in your classroom? Now try Windows Movie Maker. In this session, participants learn how to meet the needs of struggling learners as well as gifted. Students learn the content as well as research skills. Suggested for grades 4-12.

Saturday, April 28, 2012
Ten Best Practices to Organize and Engage Students using civil rights (Arkansas History)
In this workshop, participants learn how to use effective teaching strategies based on research that is highly student-centered such as effective daily openers, student self-regulation skills, peer editing, student-led conferences, and much more. Suggested for grades 4-12.