Date: June 18-19, 2018 (2-day training)
Time: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Location: Asheville Event Center, 291 Sweeten Creek Rd., Asheville, NC 28803
Registration Fee: $175/WRESA Member; $200/Non-WRESA Member
Registration Deadline: June 5, 2018
LIMITED TO 35 participants
Join Terry Roberts and the staff from the National Paideia Center for a two-day intensive training on planning, facilitating, and assessing Paideia Seminars in your classroom. The Paideia Seminar is a formal, intellectual dialogue facilitated through open-ended questions about a text. According to the 2012 book titled Teaching Critical Thinking: Using Seminars for 21st Century Literacy, the Seminar is perhaps the best strategy for consistently teaching your students to think with clarity, coherence, and sophistication. In addition, the Seminar cycle is the most successful strategy for teaching the full range of state literacy standards: close reading of demanding text, collaborative speaking and listening, and effective writing. During this two-day event, you will: participate in a model Paideia Seminar cycle, learn how to select powerful texts for discussion, write evocative, open-ended questions, practice your facilitation skills, and plan the first Seminar for your classroom. At the end of these two days, you will be fully prepared to begin implementing this profound teaching strategy in your classroom. This workshop could count towards your literacy requirements. For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org, 828.774.5681, ext. 20. Contact Hours: 10
mlinson’s career as an educator includes 21 years as a public school teacher and 12 years as a program administrator of special services for struggling and advanced learners. Special interests throughout her career have included curriculum and instruction for struggling and advanced learners, effective instruction in heterogeneous settings, and encouraging creative and critical thinking in the classroom. For ASCD, Carol has authored several books including How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-ability Classrooms and The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of all Learners and professional inquiry kit on differentiation. Recently, she co-authored a book with Jay McTighe titled Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids and with Kay Brimijoin and Lane Narvaez co-authored The Differentiated School: Making Revolutionary Change for Teaching and Learning. For Corwin Press, she is co-author of The Parallel Curriculum Model: A Design to Develop High Potential and Challenge High Ability Learners. Carol’s books on differentiation have been translated into 12 languages. She works throughout the U. S. and abroad with teachers whose goal is to develop more responsive heterogeneous classrooms.
Dr. Jon Landis is the US Development Executive with Apple Inc. where he works internationally with colleges, universities, and K12 institutions around issues of mobile technology. He is a former professor in the College of Education from Millersville University where he was also the graduate coordinator of the Leadership Program and the Coordinator of the CyberSafe Institute. Jon holds his Ph.D. in Sociology, a Masters degree in Education Leadership, and a B.S. in Chemistry. Additionally he has served as a chemistry instructor, school principal, urban education program lead, curriculum director, and Information Technology Director. 