West Sound Summer Institute 2018

Do you understand the Health Standards and Learning Outcomes; the coding alone can overwhelmed any educator? This interactive session will give tools and techniques to k-5 general educators, physical education specialists, or CTE instructors to bring HEALTH fun and furious into the classroom. Participants will leave with ready-to-teach outcomes for nutrition, social-emotional learning, even sexual health.

During this session we will review the content of a week of lessons in the Close Reading Companion. This tool allows students to apply comprehension skills and strategies in a teacher-guided, engaging and interactive manner.
*Please bring your T.E. and a copy of your grade’s CRC.

We bring history alive for the students. We present three aspects of life during 1776 time period; One presenter is dressed and outfitted as a Continental Soldier talking about the life of a soldier (his 4th great-grand-father), another is dressed as Western Frontiersmen and what life was like in the frontier and involvement in the American Revolution, and the third as an Officer talking about the daily life of a colonial children and family. We discuss documented personal challenges of that time period and have many period artifacts that are passed around for the students to inspect enhancing their experience. We have a 99% requested return rate by the schools and we are a No Cost event for the schools. If the teacher wishes they can have the students write about their experiences and we will return to hand out certificates to the top three papers.The team is very flexible, well educated on subject material and can tailor the presentations to the teacher's/instructor's needs.

During this session we will review the content of a week of lessons in the Close Reading Companion. This tool allows students to apply comprehension skills and strategies in a teacher-guided, engaging and interactive manner.
*Please bring your T.E. and a copy of your grade’s CRC.

The session will focus on tips and techniques to teach and/or correct handwriting in K-3 classrooms. Most of them come from Handwriting Without Tears and can be easily used in conjunction with Wonders to produce dramatic results.

During this session we will review the 3 forms of writing within Wonders, focusing on Genre and Trait writing. Support for Report Writing within Wonders will also be explored.

We'll explore how to modify lessons and employ instructional tasks that provide students with opportunities to learn key key science ideas while engaging in important disciplinary practices and are robust enough to support productive whole-class discussion.

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In this session we'll take a look at strategies available to make science instruction more accessible to a variety of groups: Economically Disadvantaged, Students with Disabilities, English Language Learners, Girls, Alternative Education, and Gifted and Talented Students.

Let's take a look at the 6 traits of writing! Come hear about author, Ruth Culham's work around the 6 traits--Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice, Presentation, and Conventions. Mentor texts will be shared as well as games and activities that can be interwoven into reading and writing instruction.