AIU+Workshops

== Please choose ONE of the workshops below that you would like to attend, and email that choice to Denise Pilarski @ denise.pilarski@aiu3.net at least two weeks prior to the start date. The last workshop will take place on May 2, 2013. There are a limited number of seats available in each workshop, and they will be filled on a first come, first served basis. ==

**October 15 - October 17, 2012+**
WORKSHOP COMPLETE! //ORGANIZATIONAL TIPS FOR NEW TEACHERS (K-12)// Instructor: Patricia Metinko Target Audience: K-12 Online Seats Available: 7 of 10 This workshop will focus on what it takes to be an organized, first day teacher - each year! Organization takes preparation. This session will address the necessity of checking student records, inquiring about prior student relationships, designing working seating charts, setting classroom rules, designing a parent informational handout, and using such guidelines to make each subsequent year even more successful.

**November 11 - November 13, 2012**
WORKSHOP COMPLETE! //MANAGING YOUR CLASSROOM// Instructor: John Green Target Audience: Elementary & Middle School Online Seats Available: 8 of 16 The classroom is a busy place during the day. The goal of each classroom is to have students who are on task and learning. Students do best when the teacher manages the classroom by having a solid behavior plan, an organized classroom, and clear rules and expectations. This workshop will examine how to be a successful classroom manager!

**November 26 - November 28, 2012**
WORKSHOP COMPLETE! //CREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR DEALING WITH ADHD IN THE CLASSROOM// Instructor: Regina Farrell Target Audience: Early Childhood, K-12, Guidance Online Seats Available: 2 of 10 Each topic listed below will have a reading assignment along with a writing/discussion prompt. The students will be required to develop an individual action plan for ADD/ADHD students in their classroom using learned strategies and approaches.

**November 27 - November 29, 2011**
WORKSHOP COMPLETE! //CORRESPONDING WITH PARENTS: IT'S YOUR JOB TO KEEP THEM INFORMED// Instructor: Patricia Metinko Target Audience: K-12 Online Seats Available: 0 of 10 Being prepared is half the battle. Participants will consider various ways of keeping parents well informed, including grade updates, progress reports, and parent information sheets. This parent contact workshop will address how often is enough and when it might be too much. After considering several methods to enhance communication, participants will work to begin developing their own set of correspendence forms and/or informational outlines.

**December 4, 2012**
WORKSHOP COMPLETE! //POWERPOINT 2007: PRESENTATION + ANIMATION = WOW!// Instructor: Janet Petrauskas Target Audience: K-12 AIU - Computer Lab - 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Seats Available: 7 of 15 PowerPoint Presentations are fun and easy to create. Add some custom graphics and animation and you get the WOW factor! Learn to use MS PowerPoint 2007 to create presentations that incorporate color, images, sounds, animation, navigation, and embedded movies. The lesson includes building a presentation with a user-defined background, user-defined animation elements, navigational links, and slide handout creation. Prerequisite: Basic computer knowledge and keyboarding.

**January 21 - January 25, 2013**
WORKSHOP COMPLETE! //EXAMINING EFFECTIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORTS// Instructor: Richard Yeager Target Audience: K-12 Online Seats Available: 5 of 12 //Examining Effective Behavior Supports// is designed to provide teachers with an overview of Behavior Support Models. Teachers will review school wide and individual support models.

**February 11 - February 13, 2013**
WORKSHOP COMPLETE! //MEETING THE NEEDS OF A DIVERSE CLASSROOM// Instructor: John Green Target Audience: Early Childhood - K-12 Online Seats Available: 8 of 16 Elementary classrooms are made up with students that have a wide set of ability levels. All teachers must plan to challenge all students daily. This course will look at simple instructional strategies that allow teachers to differentiate lessons and meet the needs of all learners.

**Febraury 12 - February 14, 2013**
WORKSHOP COMPLETE! //WHY DO THEY DO THAT? UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS OF CHALLENGING BEHAVIOR// Instructor: Leanna Lawson Target Audience: K-12 Online Seats Available: 0 of 20 In this three hour, online workshop, you will learn about the ABCs of behavior, and why understanding the function of behavior is so important. Given a new perspective, you will approach challenging student behavior more effectively.

**February 21, 2013**
WORKSHOP COMPLETE! //HTML: LET'S BUILD A WEBPAGE FOR YOUR CLASSROOM// Instructor: Janet Petrauskas Target Audience: K-12 AI3 Computer Lab - 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Seats Available: 0 of 15 Learn the basics of building a custom web page that you can use with your classroom. The lesson includes page setup, setting background colors/images, embedding graphics, manipulating text (style and size), and linking other pages and web sites. Using the NOTEPAD application in Windows, students will create a web page by typing HTML code and then manipulating the code to obtain a desired look. This is a hands-on class - students are encouraged to bring a thumb drive with them to download their files. Prerequisite: Basic computer knowledge and keyboarding.

**March 15 - March 17, 2013**
REGISTRATON CLOSED! //USING INTERACTIVE POWERPOINTS// Instructor: Kelly Woleslagle Target Audience: K-12 Online Seats Available: 0 of 13 This workshop will provide participants with the skills needed to create an interactive PowerPoint to use in their classroom. Participants will develoop an understanding of an interactive PowerPoint, view and example, and begin the development of their own. Participants will need to have a lesson in which they would like to integrate technology as well as a device for storing their work (CD-R, USB flash drive, etc).

**March 16, 2013**
REGISTRATON CLOSED! //HEALTHY CLASSROOM// Instructor: Darcy Mueller Target Audience: K-12 AIU3 Montessori Room - 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Seats Available: 0 of 6 How to keep you and your class/students safe and healthy. Learn to manage issues in the physical environment such as personal safety as well as common communicable diseases. Review childhood diseases that affect the learning environment. Discuss handling child abuse, street drug use, suicide threats within the classroom.

**March 19, 2013**
REGISTRATON CLOSED! //SOCIAL SCOOP// Instructor: Michele Lubetsky Target Audience: K-12, Special Education, Counselors, Social Workers, School Psychologiss, SLP's AIU3 Rogers Room - 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm Seats Availalbe: 0 of 14 "We teach social skills, but they still don't get it"! Sound familiar? Learn to help students evaluate confusing social situations and to apply appropriate social responses. This session is appropriate for anyone who works with students who need support and strategies to master the social realm. This interactive session will provide partiipants with tools to foster social skill development and to build social competence. The content is appropriate for school-age students with Asperger's Syndrome, High Functioning Autism, Non-Verbal Learning Disability, or other social challenges.

**May 2, 2013**
//WHAT'S YOUR TYPE? USING THE MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOURSELF// Instructor: Dr. Patricia DiRienzo Target Audience: All Educators AIU3 Rogers Room - 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm Seats Available: 0 of 13 The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a widely used instrument with its foundation based in the work of Carl Jung. Participants will complete the MBTI and learn about their preferences in the areas of introversion/extraversion, sensing/intuiting, thinking/feeling, and perceiving/judging. We will discuss how your preferences affect your teaching style, as well as how you can vary structure, instruction, etc. to best meet the varied needs of your students.