ENERGIZE YOUR CONTENT INSTRUCTION

INSTRUCTOR(S): John Meyer, Neenah Joint School District
                           Tina Meyer, Winneconne Middle School
GRADE LEVEL: 6-12
 

Get ready to spice up your content area with some new innovative strategies and ready to use materials, which will put a zest into your content.  You will go home with a wealth of ideas to maximize student potential, help with student directedness, and enhance student comprehension.  These practical and usable strategies can be easily adapted to your curriculum.  Participants will be involved in various teaching methods during the week.

Participants will:

	Expand their knowledge of graphic organizers to enhance reading and vocabulary skills;
	Be introduced to writing strategies and new content writing assignments (different strategies will be shared to enhance writing skills and content knowledge);
	Use supplementary reading material to reach different reading levels within the classroom;
	Construct a portfolio that is practical for your classroom and used as an assessment or communication tool;
	Use assessment as a tool to reach target goal
	Become skilled at designing alternative assessment possibilities to measure student achievement;
	Learn to utilize revision strategies; and
	Design rubrics for alternative assessment.

Time will be allocated for participants to create new lessons using the new strategies for their classroom.  Take advantage of an opportunity to enhance your teaching methods from this "coordinating" husband/wife duo.  Come learn, try something new, and have a great time with us.

Participants need to bring a copy of their curriculum objectives or benchmarks (if possible) and some curriculum units to apply strategies learned in class.