Professional Development
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Professional Development Credit
Staff Development Credit
Meeting specific needs:
- Each series is tailored to the District's needs
- Each series addresses participants' grade levels and subject areas.
- Two-to-three hour sessions
- Series of 5 to 10 sessions
- Scheduled across several weeks, weekday or weekend
- Small groups to ensure hands-on learning
- "Teachers teaching teachers": each series is coordinated by an experienced classroom teacher affiliated with Texas A&M International University .
Staff development In-service Credit
Afternoon programs and institutes include:
- Learner-centered instruction
- Creating a responsive learning environment
- Instructional strategies to prepare students for alternative assessment
- Developing students' higher order thinking skills through writing
- Teaching writing as a process
- Writing for different purposes
- Writing for different audiences
- Using peer editing groups
- Assembling and evaluating portfolios
- Using holistic scoring
- Designing rubrics for evaluation
- Grammar strategies that work
- Writing with technology
- Publishing student and teacher writing
- Providing assistance in writing grant proposals to fund staff development.
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5201 University Boulevard
Laredo, Texas 78041-1900
Phone: 956.326.2470
Fax: 956.326.2469