Upcoming EERC Courses

January 30, 2020

4:00 - 6:00

Instructor: Tracy Lyman (ELT)

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers

This seminar will address one of the priorities of the NYS Teaching Standards. Teachers must consider how each student learns. Understanding how what Constructivist Teaching and Learning means in the classroom. Teachers must implement a variety of instructional strategies. Participants will explore how students learn when they “build” learning for themselves. When students are asked to classify, analyze, predict and create, they begin to think critically and ask questions in order to understand the complex material presented to them in school and in the world.

2-Part Course

February 3 & 10, 2020

4:00 - 6:00

Instructor: Debbie Kasson

Audience: K-5 Teachers

Language is the most powerful tools available to teachers. It permeates every aspect of teaching and learning. This course will identify teacher language that helps children learn. Teachers will become more aware of the impact their language has on students and learn strategies for listening and asking open-ended questions.

Teachers in attendance will receive a copy of the book, The Power of Our Words.

February 6, 2020

4:00 - 6:00

Instructor: Brad McKinny (ELT)

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers and Staff

This seminar is designed to help teachers educate their students who will be living in a world of diverse communities. It will promote awareness of global differences while identifying shared values. It encourages the understanding of one’s own culture as the doorway to understanding other cultures.

February 20, 2020

4:00 - 6:00

Instructor: Tracy Lyman (ELT)

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers and Staff

This seminar examines the relationship between poverty, achievement, and education. It engages educators in conversations about how they can effectively begin viewing their role as a crucial impetus for student learning in their classroom and school.

Two-Part Course

February 24 & March 2, 2020

4:00-6:00

Instructor: Karen Dudgeon, LCSW

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers & Staff

Social-Emotional Learning and Trauma-Informed Schools are popular buzz words, but what do we really know about fostering a positive learning environment when so often students seem to be emotional, reactive, frustrated, and excitable? This workshop will include helping teachers care for themselves AND THEN their students by working to create a trauma-sensitive classroom.

All of those in attendance will receive a copy of the book, The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom.

Two-Part Course

February 25 & 27, 2020

4:00 to 6:00

Instructor: Hannah Linebaugh

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers & Staff

Come see the latest the EERC has to offer. Audience members will gain a basic understanding of how to use the Cricut craft machine and how to manipulative the Cricut Craft System. Learn how to use your computer to design and create vinyl, cardstock & craft paper masterpieces for your classroom.

February 26, 2020

4:00 - 6:00

Instructors: Lilly Kinback and Emily Stewart

Target Audience: Teachers that have already taken - Is it Sensory or Behavior?

Join us as we continue to develop strategies for sensory interventions and techniques as well as the use of sensory equipment and appropriate data collection.

March 5, 2020

4:00 - 6:00

Instructor: Kristen Powers (ELT)

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers & Staff that work and interact with ENL students.

As a teacher, what can you do with students in your class who are learning English? How can you help them succeed? This seminar focuses on understanding the stages of verbal acquisition and identifying variables that influence the language acquisition process for ENLs. Strategies that have been shown to successfully engage ENLs are examined and instructional and assessment accommodations are demonstrated.

March 18, 2020

4:00 to 6:00

Instructors: Kristy Gault & Clare McGovern-Lind

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers

Gain a deeper understanding of what differentiated instruction and specially designed instruction are, and the role they play in the classroom. Learn how to implement or strengthen the use of differentiated instruction within the classroom. Create differentiated plans from a given lesson or bring a lesson of your own to enhance by differentiation.

March 19, 2020

4:00 - 6:00

Instructor: Tracy Lyman (ELT)

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers

This seminar addresses one of the most critical instructional practices upon which student success is based. Teachers new to the profession may be challenged in how to plan for this in their everyday teaching. The seminar will focus on strategies that will help them sustain wonder, enthusiasm, and perseverance. This seminar will provide a practical model for understanding what our students want and need in their classrooms

Two-Part Course

March 23 & April 2, 2020

4:00 to 6:00

Instructors: Dr. Amber Simpson & Dr. Nicole Fenty

Target Audience: Pre-K to 1st Grade

Join us with Dr. Simpson and Dr. Fenty from Binghamton University as they share with participants an understanding of how to integrate mathematics and computer science concepts into centers as a way to address learning through play.

March 26, 2020

4:00 to 6:00

Instructors: Debbie Kasson & Carrie Martin

Target Audience: Pre-K through 2nd Grade Teachers

Participants will learn supports for a variety of early learning settings in both social & academic contexts, how oral language development progresses from birth to age 5 for DLLs, and how to plan culturally & linguistically responsive learning experiences for all students in the PreK through 2nd-grade classroom.

March 30, 2020

4:00 to 6:00

Instructor: Tracy Lyman

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers and Staff

(Ideal for teachers who previously took "Trauma in the Classroom")

In this 2-hour workshop, participants should come with a base level understanding of ACEs and the effects of Trauma and we will discuss classroom strategies to help promote resiliency in the classroom. Topics to be addressed include relationship-building activities, NYS social-emotional learning benchmarks and review practices that teach the whole child. Time will also allow for reflection of particular students in their own classrooms and action planning on how to implement action plans to support students in need.

April 16, 2020

4:00 to 6:00

Instructor: Tracy Lyman (ELT)

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers

This seminar is designed to address one of the NYS Teaching Standards priorities by helping teachers understand that knowledge is expanding at a more rapid rate than ever anticipated. Information and communication is changing how we teach and how students learn. Routine skills are no longer the basis for the workplace or the classroom. The seminar will emphasize that today’s students and teachers must be able to communicate, share, and use information in a number of diverse ways.