The Visualizing and Verbalizing® (V/V®) workshop prepares participants to teach students to image concepts and apply that imagery to higher order thinking skills. Highly interactive with videos and practice sessions, the V/V® workshop will take participants from verbalizing pictures to visualizing and verbalizing gestalts for critical thinking and content application.

The recently released New Hampshire Alternate Assessment Learning Progressions (NH-ALPs) present an amazing opportunity for both teachers and students to focus on the most important Grade Level Expectations necessary to become proficient in a content area. Instruction and Assessment for Alternate Learners, a series of four three-hour workshops, will take an in-depth look at each of the four content areas assessed by the NH-ALPs: Reading, Mathematics, Writing, and Science. In addition, these workshops will focus on how using the Learning Progressions can support IEP development, instruction that connects to the general education curriculum, and assessment for students who have a variety of sensory profiles, levels of communication, and learning styles. 

Who should attend: General education teachers, special education teachers, speech pathologists, and others putting together Alternate Assessment portfolios are encouraged to attend.

Climbing the NH-ALPs:
Developing Proficient Readers Using the NH Alternate Reading Learning Progressions
Date: Monday, December 5, 2011 
Time: 8:30 to 11:30
Cost: $70 members, $75 associate members, $80 non-members 
This workshop will focus on understanding and using the NH Alternate Reading Learning Progressions to support literacy instruction and assessment for students with disabilities. Participants will review resources from the NH Department of Education, learn to use the Learning Progressions as a developmental pathway for achieving reading proficiency, and explore a variety of ways students can demonstrate reading skills while maintaining student authorship.
Registration: https://www.123signup.com/event?id=cchcf

Adding Up to Success!:
Highlighting Student Academic Achievement Using the NH Alternate Mathematics Learning Progressions
Date: Monday, December 5, 2011 
Time: 12:30 to 3:30
Cost: $70 members, $75 associate members, $80 non-members
This workshop will provide understanding in using the Mathematics Learning Progressions to support the learning of mathematical concepts in a way that is relevant, meaningful, and applicable to future life options. Participants will review resources from the NH Department of Education, learn to use the Learning Progressions as a developmental pathway for achieving mathematic problem solving skills and explore a variety of ways students can demonstrate understanding of mathematical concepts while maintaining authorship.
Registration: https://www.123signup.com/event?id=cchcf

Write This Way!:
Using the NH Alternate Writing Learning Progressions to Develop Student Writing Skills
Date: Monday, December 19, 2011 
Time: 8:30 to 11:30
Cost: $70 members, $75 associate members, $80 non-members
This workshop will explore the ways students can communicate in writing without necessarily holding a pencil. Participants will understand the construction of the Writing Learning Progressions, explore resources provided by the NH Department of Education, learn alternative ways for students to express ideas, and examine purposes for writing. Participants will learn to use the Writing Learning Progressions as a developmental pathway to achieving written communication proficiency and its importance in a balanced literacy program. Participants will also explore real-life examples of students demonstrating written communication skills while maintaining authorship.
Registration: https://www.123signup.com/event?id=cchcf

  

 

Location of all 4 workshops: NCES, Gorham, NH

Aimsweb is a benchmark and progress monitoring system based on continuous student assessment. The results are immediate and can be shared with students, parents, teachers and administrators via a web-based data management and reporting system to determine response to intervention. Aimweb offers assessments in reading, math, spelling, behavior, and writing. During the training we will go over all of the measures and get an understanding of the Aimsweb site.

Presenter: Donna Beauregard
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Time: 9:00 to 3:00
Cost: $90 full members, $99 associate members, $108 non-members
Breakfast refreshments and lunch provided.
Registration: https://www.123signup.com/event?id=ccrvv or by calling NCES.