| WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS Music and Language: Bridging the Gap By its very nature, music meets people where they are as human beings and offers limitless opportunities for intellectual, spiritual, and community growth. This workshop builds upon existing schemata and creates opportunities for all students to find success with language, math, and music. Peter & The Wolf: The Metaphorical tale of a new administrator’s experiences with organizational studies & Public Schools This is the perfect workshop for administrators and teacher leaders as they build essential relationships and strive to develop programs that are great for kids. Teaching for Success: A Special Multi-session Pro-D series by SEP Reading & Language Specialist This workshop combines SIOP, TESA, and Multiple Intelligence Theories in a progressive, hands-on professional development series for teachers, staff, and administrators. 6 custom sessions over the course of an academic year that will positively change the way you teach and interact with students and each other. World Drumming, Kazoo Rhythm Band, and Conga Town for Literacy and Success in School A cross-curricular, get up and move introduction to rhythms that fosters an understanding of basic world rhythms, percussion instruments, simple instrument building, and literacy connections. Conducting Language Experience Approach Activities Research based exploration of LEA. This hands-on, interactive workshop will leave you with a renewed understanding of an age old skill and strategies that you can immediately implement in your classroom. Teacher Expectations Student Achievement Based on more than 20 years of ongoing research through LACOE, this workshop offers an overview of the skills and strategies implemented in the TESA model of teacher-student interactions. Educators will leave with skills to implement in their very next class session. Differentiating your Curriculum How do I meet all their needs? This interactive exploratory workshop helps you to develop strategies for meeting the divergent academic needs of your students without overwhelming you as a person. Writing Across the Curriculum Developing understanding, confidence, and assessment strategies that will invigorate your content area curriculum while simultaneously instilling complex purposeful writing habits in your learners Classroom Music for Non-Musicians Fun and inexpensive ways to incorporate music into the learning process while developing phonemic awareness, directionality, and literacy Art projects with the brain in mind Learn about brain theory and experience kid and teacher friendly art projects that are easily integrated into your classroom |
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"I was fortunate enough to attend Ed
Varner's 'Music and Language: Bridging
the Gap' workshop yesterday in Great
Falls, and just wanted to make other
educators aware of the quality of the
materials and instruction. It is the type of
workshop that is applicable to all grade
levels and could be incorporated into
many academic subjects. I plan to use
some of what I learned in teaching
beginning sounds to my Kindergarten
students this year. I know I will find other
applications because using music makes
it easier for students to remember what
they have learned. Thanks for presenting
great materials and ideas in such an
enjoyable format!"
- Judy Shattuck, Great Falls Public Schools
Varner's 'Music and Language: Bridging
the Gap' workshop yesterday in Great
Falls, and just wanted to make other
educators aware of the quality of the
materials and instruction. It is the type of
workshop that is applicable to all grade
levels and could be incorporated into
many academic subjects. I plan to use
some of what I learned in teaching
beginning sounds to my Kindergarten
students this year. I know I will find other
applications because using music makes
it easier for students to remember what
they have learned. Thanks for presenting
great materials and ideas in such an
enjoyable format!"
- Judy Shattuck, Great Falls Public Schools
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