Summer Workshops | Solutions for Your Classroom

Summer workshops focus on learning new skills for your elementary or secondary classroom and provide time to work with other professionals on implementing your new skills. Receive professional development points or graduate credit.

Dates, Times, Location

• Two-day workshops take place in June. 
• All classes meet from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
• Baker University, 7301 College Boulevard, Overland Park, KS 66210 (map)

Fees & Credit

• Registration fee: $130
• Tuition: $65
• Graduate credit: 1 hour

Registration

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June 6-7 | Utilizing One iPad in a Classroom – Elementary

April Bullman, Shawnee Mission School District

This course will explore iPads in education. The course is hands on and will require participants to have an iPad with them. Participants will have time to ask questions, share ideas, and test apps. Participants will create their lesson using the iPad and share their lessons with the other participants.

The first half of day one will introduce participants to iPads by exploring apps, ways to find and evaluate apps, as well as iPad tips and tricks. The second half of day one will allow participants time to find content-appropriate apps and share the apps with the class. Participants will also have the opportunity to collaborate and create a project-based lesson for their students using their iPads, and share their ideas with other participants.

The first half of day two will give participants time to explore and discuss techniques and problem-solving strategies with an iPad or iPads. The class will discuss displaying an iPad in the classroom and ways to get content off the iPad. During the second half of day two, participants will create and collaborate using cloud-based applications. Participants will then share their lessons/projects with the other participants.

June 6-7 | The Mathematical Practices and Instructional Shifts Needed to Implement the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics – Elementary

Margie Hill, University of Kansas (This date has changed from June 13-14.)

This informative and interactive workshop will provide participants with strategies and techniques that will help transition elementary mathematics classrooms into the Common Core State Standards. Activities will include:

• Hands-on work to help understand both the practice and the content standards
• Resources and websites that focus on CCSS and the NEW state assessment
• Working with text materials (bring your teacher's manual for your adopted text) to identify CCSS content and activities/questions that address or can be adjusted to address the practice standards

June 10-11 | Preparing for the New State Assessment

Verneda Edwards, Ph.D., Baker University

Are you concerned about the new state assessment? Do you understand how the test is being designed? Have you had a chance to review the work by SMARTER Balance, the consortium designing the new assessment? If not, come and join us as we explore how the assessment is being designed and how you can prepare your students for this upcoming assessment. The workshop will focus on how the assessment is being designed, the tie to the Common Core State Standards and how classroom tasks can be designed to meet the rigor of the new exam. Much of the workshop will be spent looking at the tie between the standards and the specifications of the new assessment. There will be opportunities to look at your classroom activities and how they can be modified to ensure that students are ready for the new state assessment.

June 11-12 | Utilizing One iPad in a Classroom – Secondary

April Bullman, Shawnee Mission School District

This course will explore iPads in education. The course is hands on and will require participants to have an iPad with them. Participants will have time to ask questions, share ideas, and test apps. Participants will create their lesson using the iPad and share their lessons with the other participants.

The first half of day one will introduce participants to iPads by exploring apps, ways to find and evaluate apps, as well as iPad tips and tricks. The second half of day one will allow participants time to find content-appropriate apps and share the apps with the class. Participants will also have the opportunity to collaborate and create a project-based lesson for their students using their iPads, and share their ideas with other participants.

The first half of day two will give participants time to explore and discuss techniques and problem-solving strategies with an iPad or iPads. The class will discuss displaying an iPad in the classroom and ways to get content off the iPad. During the second half of day two, participants will create and collaborate using cloud-based applications. Participants will then share their lessons/projects with the other participants.

June 11-12 | Using Co-teaching to Meet Common Core Standards

Linda Hickey, Blue Valley Public Schools

This activity-based workshop is recommended for general education teachers, special education teachers, ESOL teachers, school leaders, or those who would like to know more about how co-teaching (a general education teacher and a special education teacher in the same classroom, for example) can provide greater access for all students to the Common Core State Standards. Participants are encouraged to attend with their current or future co-teacher.

This workshop is designed for any level, elementary through secondary. Topics will include strategies for knowing yourself as a teacher, for knowing your co-teaching partner, for knowing your students, as well as structures for co-teaching. Teachers will explore how the use of explicit instruction, accommodations, and universal design for learning (UDL) can build a quality learning environment. Teachers will walk away with strategies that can be used with students for meeting common core standards. Planning time, along with discussion about potential barriers and solutions, will be provided. Participants will learn how co-teaching has many advantages in helping students meet common core standards, as they learn the critical factors that make co-teaching successful.

June 13-14 | The Common Core in the Classroom: Understanding and Measuring Text Complexity – Elementary

Patricia Bandré, Ph.D., Baker University

The Common Core State Standards advocate the close reading of rigorous texts and require the complexity of those texts be determined according to quantitative and qualitative elements as well as aspects pertaining to reader preferences and task expectations. During the morning hours, attendees will be introduced to the research behind the facets of text complexity including reader motivation and engagement and student preferences. In the afternoons, time will be spent reading and discussing a variety of level-specific fiction and nonfiction texts in order to determine approximate levels of complexity. Attendees will need to bring texts from their own classrooms for analysis and are encouraged to bring computers in order to explore online text-complexity tools.

June 13-14 | The Common Core in the Classroom: Understanding and Measuring Text Complexity – Secondary

Pauline Moley, Ph.D., St. Louis Public Schools

The Common Core State Standards advocate the close reading of rigorous texts and require the complexity of those texts be determined according to quantitative and qualitative elements as well as aspects pertaining to reader preferences and task expectations. During the morning hours, attendees will be introduced to the research behind the facets of text complexity including reader motivation and engagement and student preferences. In the afternoons, time will be spent reading and discussing a variety of level-specific fiction and nonfiction texts in order to determine approximate levels of complexity. Attendees will need to bring texts from their own classrooms for analysis and are encouraged to bring computers in order to explore online text-complexity tools.

June 13-14 | The Mathematical Practices and Instructional Shifts Needed to Implement the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics – Secondary

Margie Hill, University of Kansas (This date has changed from June 6-7)

This informative and interactive workshop will provide participants with strategies and techniques that will help transition grade 6-12 mathematics classrooms into the Common Core State Standards. Activities will include:

• Hands-on work to help understand both the practice and the content standards
• Resources and websites that focus on CCSS and the NEW state assessments
• Working with text materials (bring your teacher's manual for your adopted text) to identify CCSS content and activities/questions that address or can be adjusted to address the practice standards