Instructional Strategies for the workshop will include a combination of:•Organizational Strategy Characteristics•Delivery Strategy Characteristics•Management Strategy Characteristics

Instructional Strategies

Instructional Strategies

Each workshop will include:•A rational of the individual activities based on the workshop goals, objectives, and learning strategies.•A format that describes the learning environment and delivery of instruction.•Specific activites that include the medium, instructional strategy, assessment, and evaluation methodology.

Classroom Management

Rationale - Supplantive to Generative: Time is limited for instructional strategy & the agency has a high accountability for learning . Participants have a high level of motivation and interest & high aptitude for learning .

Format: The face-to-face instruction will provide participants with an understanding how behavior effects classroom management. Through role playing participants will have the opportunity to observe both positive and negative reactions of the instructor and student in the classroom. Roleplaying will provide practice and feedback to support the strengths and weakness of positive/negative reinforcement, in regards to behavior, to improve classroom management. The workshop will be highly supplantive lecture/discussion with high levels of scaffolding, generally instructor driven.

Activities:•Hour 1: Lecture and demonstration •Hour 2: Experiential roleplaying for participants to work in groups to experience positive & negative behaviors in a classroom environment •Hour 3: Participants will role-play to demonstrate learned techniques of positive/negative reinforcement to improve behavior in the classroom

Cultivating Positive Relationships with Parent/Guardian

Rationale - Supplantive to Generative - Learners are encouraged to construct their own meanings from the instruction by generating their won educational goals, organization, elaborations, sequencing and emphasis on content, monitoring of understanding and transfer to other contexts. Supplantive strategies will provide events that will actively gain the learner's attention and encourage informational processing.

Format: Provide face-to -face instruction that will encourage an understanding of how one can cultivate positive relationships with parents and guardians of their students. Learners will have the opportunity to discuss the topic with coworkers in small groups and review the different techniques and procedures that might enhance relationships with parents/guardians. Teachers will take a multiple choice and matching quiz to assess knowledge.

Activities:•Hour 1: Lecture •Hour 2: Interaction with co-workers •Hour 3: Summary of cultivating positive relationship Learners will take a multiple choice and matching assessment

Differentiating Instruction for Diverse Learners

Rational: -Supplantive to Generative - Learners will ingest the knowledge provided to them and enact the knowledge with the role play learning technique. Provide teachers with knowledge and techniques of how to identify students from diverse backgrounds so that they can recognize the diverse learners in the classroom and to learn how to modify instruction to meet the needs of each individual student.

Format: Face to Face Lecture style instruction followed by role play using scenarios developed by the instructor. A series of multiple choice and matching questions to assess knowledge gained.

Activates: •Hour 1: Lecture•Hour 2: Role Play •Hour 3: Summary of identifying students from diverse backgrounds Assessment of multiple choice and matching questions

Differentiating Instruction for Diverse Learners

Rationale - Supplantive to Generative: Time is limited for instructional strategy; The agency has a high accountability for learning; Achievement of domain-specific goals . Participants have a high level of motivation, interest, and high aptitude for learning; Large & sophisticated repertoire of cognitive strategies .

Format: The face-to-face instruction will provide participants with declarative knowledge of social media as well as demonstrate through presentations and hands-on-practice how social media can be integrated into classroom activities.

Activities:•Hour 1: Lecture and demonstration •Hour 2: Hands-on practice using the components of FaceBook, Google, and Twitter to search, collaborate, store, and present information in relation to engaging and enhancing learning through technology. •Hour 3: Participants will create a project that utilizes one of the social medias learned, to integrate technology in the classroom, to engage and enhance learning.