Essential Tools for Effective Schools

The Workshop:
This seminar will demonstrate the usefulness of assistive technology (any program or device that helps a person function more effectively). The main focus will be an introduction and demonstration of various programs. An additional focus will be a discussion on how to incorporate technology into a student’s program/curriculum. Understanding a student’s unique learning profile will assist in determining the best programs to utilize (e.g., LD, Visual Learner, Auditory Learner…). Programs such as voice-to-text, text-to-voice, graphic organizers, and word prediction programs will be highlighted.

Lunch & Learn is designed to be an informative and useful advanced forum of discussion and learning for principals, department heads and key teachers of private schools. During a two hour meal, participants will be invited to listen to a thirty-minute presentation on a relevant topic chosen for the day, followed by a discussion and exchange of ideas. It is a great opportunity for participants to ask questions and learn how their colleagues are solving school challenges. This forum also provides an excellent opportunity for networking, sharing of ideas, and learning from each other's knowledge and experience.

The Workshop:
This pertinent learning opportunity will focus on some of the difficult legal issues private schools must be prepared to manage. Our discussion will begin with consideration of events that might precipitate a school’s reporting of disclosures or concerns to community social agencies or the police, and will carry on to include such issues as parental harassment, case-law related to student suspension and expulsion, doctrine of duty of care and potential liability around this, and privacy issues and laws. Opportunity will be provided for general questions of whole group interest to be posed.

The Presenter:
Shelle Rose Charvet is an expert on communication between differing interest groups – a situation often found in private schools. In her presentation Shelle identifies the unique communication and persuasion challenges administrators of private schools face in their daily communications. She explains and demonstrates practical ideas and strategies to meet these challenges. Ms. Rose Charvet is the President of Success Strategies, an international training and consulting firm, based in Ontario. Her seminar is especially developed for administrators, owners and principals of private schools. Ms. Rose Charvet is the author of the bestseller: Words That Change Minds.

• Students
• Parents
• Teachers
• Board members
• Other public and private schools
• The community at large
• Ministry of Education officials
• And many other stake holders…

Ms. Rose Charvet will explain how:

• to establish credibility and rapport with individuals and groups
• to adapt your communication style based on what is motivating to the person(s) you wish to convince
• to present ideas to skeptical people
• to turn a confrontation into a conversation

  This is a MUST seminar for all school administrators; whether new or with substantial experience. Today’s communication skills must reflect the changes in our school communities. Knowing how to effectively communicate with diverse interest groups is imperative for successful school administration.
  
  Please join us and learn from the expert in the field.

The Workshop:
In this seminar Dr. Miller will discuss the development of course outlines, unit and lesson plans, appropriate assessment tools, evaluation of student work, performance tasks, working with rubrics, and report card writing. Dr. Miller will give examples and offer templates that work well to support these processes in small schools. This seminar is designed primarily for NEW teachers and administrators who have limited working experience in private schools in Ontario. It is an important seminar for those preparing for their initial inspection.

Morning: 9:30-12:30
Dr. Ronnie Miller

• Developing lessons and unit plans
• Working with Ministry course expectations
• Developing a course of study
• Working with the categories of achievements
  

Afternoon: 1:30-3:30
Option 1: Dr. Ronnie Miller

• Assessment and evaluation
• Designing assessment tasks
• Working with rubrics
• Calculating marks
• Report cards

Option 2: Flanny Alamparambil

• Teaching Mathematics at the High School level
• Assistive Technology for HS Mathematics students
  

Morning: 9:30-12:30
Option 1: Dr. Ronnie Miller

• High School accommodations
• Providing appropriate support to your students while maintaining the integrity of the course of study
  

Option 2: Flanny Alamparambil

• Teaching Mathematics at the elementary and middle school level
• Assistive technology for elementary Mathematics students
  

Afternoon: 1:30-3:30
Option 1: Dr. Pam Struiksma

• Working with LD, ADD, ADHD, PDD and other students with learning challenges
• Overall results of the school's cognitive screening

Option 2: Dr. Diana Denton

• Strategies for the teaching of competent Oral Communication Skills (Part 1)

• Administering the CTBS
  

Morning 9:30-12:30
Option 1: Dr. Pam Struiksma

• Reviewing and discussing the results of individual Psych. Ed. Assessments, completed in the 2007-08 school year (private session with specific teacher teams)

• Teaching of oral communication skills to school age students for whom English is a Second Language (Part 2)
  

Afternoon: 1:30-4:30
Dr. Ronnie Miller

• Developing lessons and unit plans
• Working with Ministry course expectations
• Developing a course of study
• Working with the categories of achievements
  

Morning: 9:30-12:30
Dr. Ronnie Miller

• Assessment and evaluation
• Designing assessment tasks
• Working with rubrics
• Calculating marks
• High School accommodations
• Providing appropriate support to your students while maintaining the integrity of the course of study
• Report cards