Session Topic Ideas
Below are a list of topics that teachers and staff have expressed an interest in further PD opportunities.
- Assessments: rubrics, technology in formative assessments, common assessments, MCAS 2.0, report card benchmark assessments
- ELA: close reading, guided reading, reading practices
- Special Education and Inclusive Practices: co-teaching, inclusion, ABA techniques, teaching students with different profiles ( executive functioning, auditory processing, autism), restraint training, common learning disabilities, behavior management, instruction in heterogeneous classroom
- Social Emotional and Health: social thinking, counseling, DBT/Mindfulness, substance abuse, CPR
- Visual and Fine Arts: creative art-making
- Technology: Google Classroom Calendar, Smartboards, coding, Nearpod, iPad integration at the elementary level, Google Apps for Education, web design for beginners
- STEAM: project-based learning, new science standards