Professional Development

Whether you need a comprehensive program for mentor teachers or a one hour presentation on a hot topic, the OEA Teaching and Learning Center remains on the cutting edge in providing a wide variety of professional trainings for OEA members.

Language effort puts Oklahoma teachers in learning seat

NewsOK 01/31/09
By Dawn Marks

Putnam City West Teachers Train

Putnam City West teachers talk about new training that will teach them how to go back to their schools and train other teachers in English as a second language.

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Contact your regional Teaching and Learning Specialist to schedule Professional Development Opportunities including:

Closing the Achievement Gaps
Title Descriptor Allotted Time
C.A.R.E. Strategies Close achievement gaps by delving into the four areas of Culture, Abilities, Resilience, and Effort of our students 50 min – 6 hours
Ongoing
English Language Learners Strategies on how to approach teaching students with English as a second language 50 min – 6 hours
Ongoing
Marzano’s Academic Vocabulary Strategies on how to teach vocabulary to any grade level 50 min – 2 hours
Marzono's Classroom Instruction that Works Research based strategies for increasing student achievement 50 min – 6 hours
Raising Test Scores Based on Ruby Payne’s ideas and research. A close-up on how to increase student achievement. 90 min – 3 hours
Special Ed Cadre IDEA; Autism; Response to Intervention (RtI) 50 min – 6 hours
Classroom Management
Bullying Prevention A program about the why’s of bullying and ways to lower the occurrence in schools (including cyber-bullying) 50 min – 2 hours
Classroom Management 101 4 simple techniques to pique student involvement and reduce classroom management problems

 

 50 min
“I Can Do It”

 

 How-tos for classroom anagement, from the first day to the last day 6 hours
Relaxation for Stress and Time Management Multiple ways to reduce stress and increase productivity 50 min – 2 hours
Learning Styles
Perceptual Learning Styles Individualize learning through your students' preferred perceptual and processing styles 50 min – 6 hours
True Colors Learning and leadership styles and group dynamics 50 min – 3  hours
Community Builders
Celebrate What’s Right with the World! Dewitt Jones inspirational film celebrating living our lives  with confidence and grace 50 min
FISH! Play, Be There, Make Their Day, and Choose your Attitude help to show that any work place can be successful 50 min
For the Love of It Invigorate your life by loving what you do 50 min
Gung Ho! Giving teachers power to help empower themselves. 50 min
Seeing Red Cars Setting goals to achieve success 50 min
Who Moved My Cheese? An amazing way to deal with change in your work and life 50 min
Professional
Common Core Standards The content, instructional shift, and implementation of CCSS 50 min – 3 hours
NBPTS Take One! Initiative Whole school or departmental portfolio entry project to promote instructional reflection Sept. thru March (site specific)
Pre-Candidacy NBCT A ‘how-to” of the NBCT process; writing for scholarships and entries 50 min – 6 hours
Resident/Mentor Training Review of State Department guidelines for resident teachers 50 min

 

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