Early Career Teaching Institute

This session will provide strategies to build a strong culture and climate within the classroom, with an eye on equity, justice and quality instruction for all.

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ty1nxu8I2zwXznSfDuSUuW2OqnijYd1WqMax6QGtR1I/edit?usp=sharing

Learning Goals

• Strategies and ideas to create instructional success for all students.
• Positive guidance techniques, in order to promote a positive, tight-knit classroom.
• Classroom language, routines, rules and vibes that keep students learning and living their best in the classroom.

The skills and practices of collaboration between educators can be a critical component in both student success and educator well being. In this session participants with learn best practices and techniques in the field of educational collaboration. The session is structured for participants to reflect on their  own collaborative experiences while deepening their understanding of additional practices to bring to future collaborative teams & partnerships.

Learning Goals

• Participants will review stages, mindset, techniques, and practices of successful collaborative teams.
• Participants will reflect on previous collaborative practices and plan for future collaborative teams & partnerships.

Participants will learn the fun, simple and satisfying form of making an accordion book. We will discuss a variety of creative uses, adaptations and learning goals for this book form including turning it into a pocket book. Hands-on demos and participants will leave with two small book structures they have created as well as a lot of ideas.

Learning Goals

• Learn ways to enhance learning, creativity and art making through simple bookmaking forms in your classroom.
• Use problem solving skills to come up with unique solutions to adapt bookmaking for your students to use as a vehicle for process and learning.

This is part 2 of a 2 part series open to ECTI participants and Cooperating Teachers. Pre-registration is required. For more information or to register, email conferences@education.wisc.edu.

In this workshop we will dive into principles of equitable math classrooms and discuss practical strategies to foster an inclusive and challenging math environment. Through collaborative problem-solving and reflection we will examine productive struggle and how we develop key math concepts. We'll specifically engage with frameworks that promote inquiry and explore methods to develop students' algebraic reasoning.