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Presenter: Tim Westerberg - ASCD International
Professional Development Cadre member - K-12
Workshop Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
each day
Registration time: 8:30 am
Price: $349.00
(There is also the option to
PRE-ORDER, from us, two
books by Robert Marzano,
"Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement" and "Building
Academic Vocabulary" for an additional
$50)
Dates and Locations:
November 18th & 19th, 2008
Frisco ISD (Dallas area)
Transportation West Training Rooms - 10701 Dallas Parkway - Frisco, TX 75034 May 7th & 8th, 2009
Keller ISD
Administrative Building - 350 Keller Parkway - Keller, TX 76248 August 13th & 14th, 2009
Sheldon ISD
11411 C.E. King Parkway - Houston, TX 77044
Rescheduled from previously postponed date
| To register by purchase order or a check, download a registration form (PDF) or call 1-800-717-2723 ext. 10 for assistance. |
Quotes:
Superb! Made complete sense. I feel building background knowledge is the first step to teaching.
Great job! After 24 years of teaching, I feel like I learned some new techniques that I will use in my classroom.
Wonderful - I've learned great things to use in the classroom!
First day - Exciting, Second day - Thrilling!
Great training... containing state-of-the art strategies.
Summary: Students come to school with different levels of background knowledge that impact their academic success. Knowing what to do to support those students who do not have the background knowledge to be successful in school has not always been clear.until now. Attend this workshop, based on Robert J. Marzano's Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works in Schools, to discover how to help students to become more confident and successful learners by building the background knowledge they may have missed in earlier years. A variety of strategies for building background knowledge that can be implemented, K-12, will be explored, modeled, and practiced, with special emphasis on the Six-Step Process for Teaching Academic Vocabulary in each discipline.
Tim Westerberg
has served as a school principal for 25 years, the last 19 of which
have been in Littleton, Colorado. Before entering school
administration, Westerberg taught social studies and coached at the
high school level in Illinois and in Iowa. He earned his bachelor's and
master's degrees from the University of Iowa and his doctorate in
educational administration from Iowa State University.
In addition to his work as a
teacher and administrator, Westerberg has
been active in a variety of school transformation, staff development,
and leadership training initiatives in the United States and other
countries. Westerberg served on the National Association of Secondary
School Principals (NASSP)/Carnegie Foundation Commission on the
Restructuring of the American High School, which produced the seminal
report, "Breaking Ranks: Changing an American Institution," and he
played a significant role in the development of "Breaking Ranks II,"
which was released in February, 2004.
Recently, Westerberg has served as
a site evaluator for the U.S.
Department of Education's New American High Schools project, an IDEA
'97 trainer for the NASSP, a member of the National Staff Development
Council's Results-Based Staff Development Initiative, a member of
ASCD's What Works In Schools cadre K-12, and president of the Colorado
Association of School Executives.
The powerpoint notes
for day one are available here.
The
powerpoint notes for day two are available here.
(These are large files <between
11 and 25.6 megs>, be patient downloading them)
supplemental
material (added in November 2008) can be downloaded here
Who Should Attend:
Principals,
Teachers, Curriculum administrators, Curriculum designers and
Professional developers.
