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  • ~SMARTBoard Games~
    Available places: Unlimited

    Starts Oct 25, 2010 - Dec 6, 2010

    This course has been developed for participants who want to further integrate the SMART Board into their curriculum. The class will focus on creating interactive games in Notebook to engage student learning.  Participants will create a collection of interactive SMARTBoard games. Students will enjoy participating in these collaborative, fun and engaging experiences, while incorporating curriculum. Assimilate your content inside a game show is a great way to engage your students. Students learn best when the content is relevant to them and when they can connect new learning with old.  Students like games because they have fun and learn at the same time, and teachers like them because games help build students’ academic confidence, as well as social and problem-solving skills. Grab your curriculum and jump right in participants will be provided step by step instructions to create SMARTBoard games.  In addition, research resources available to utilize Educational Games for use with the SMARTBoard.  This course uses a hands-on approach to creating educational games, and the practical aspects of evaluating and implementing games for teaching and learning.  Educators can now gain leverage by using students’ interests in digital culture to extend their learning and keep them engaged. Participants are will create a portfolio of content drive game lessons. In addition designed teacher created  templates that can be easily adapted to their classroom needs.Promethean Board users welcome, lessons and skills can be converted into Promethean lessons.

    SMARTboard Software for home use provided.

  • ~SMARTboard Revolution~
    Available places: Unlimited
    Starts Sept 23, 2010 - Nov 8, 2010
    Give dynamic whole-class instruction with the SMARTboard; learn how to use this powerful educational resource tool and keep your class focused on learning content needed to pass assessments. With the SMART Board interactive whiteboard, you’ll save time and increase success for every one of your students. The SMART Board can be used to differentiate lessons and address a variety of learning styles. Discover how to develop lesson plans that make use of this fabulous tool and motivate 21st century students. This course will show how the SMART Board interactive whiteboard can have a significant impact on how we can teach and how children learn. This exciting technology can bring enjoyment to both teaching and learning. This hands-on course is designed for both the teacher who has been using the SMART Board for a while and the novice SMART Board user. You will learn to use SMART Board features efficiently, utilize techniques to effectively add structure, organization, style, interactivity and rich media to your lessons. In this class, participants will select one unit of study in a specific content area, determine specific outcomes for the unit and prepare activities, using the SMARTboard to prepare students to meet stated outcome goals.Participants will explore ways to differentiate instruction, using the SMARTboard and will create a final presentation for the class, explaining how the activities, created in class, affected student performance on unit assessments.One major focus of the course will be utilizing many resources available on the Internet such as virtual manipulative. The second focus will be on developing SMART Notebook activities for use in the classroom to enhance student learning. Promethean Board users welcome, lessons and skills can be converted into Promethean lessons.
    SMARTboard Software for home use provided.
  • Child and Adolescent Development
    Available places: Unlimited
  • RC School Health and Wellness Coalition
    Available places: Unlimited
    This course allows guest users to enter  This course requires an enrolment key

    The Rockland County School Health and Wellness Coalition (School Coalition) is a collaborative of Rockland schools, organizations and businesses with a shared vision to have the healthiest students, staff and school communities in the nation. To achieve this, the School Coalition supports the Coordinated School Health model by being the link for schools to the community at large with all of its resources.  The School Coaltion is closely affiliated with the Steps to a Healthier Rockland initiative.

    Collaboration between schools, organizations and local businesses enhances communication, cooperatioin, sharing of resources and problem solving, leading to improved vitality for residents.  The School Coaltion meets 4 times per year and has two workgroups.  The workgroups focus on increasing awareness and skills among community member and schools in:

    • The protective effect of the family meal (Protective Factors Workgroup, Eat Together! campaign)
    • How to create healthier schools (Professional Development Workgroup, spring School Symposium on Connecting Health with Learning and other events)

    To participate in workgroups or receive announcements of School Coalition activities, contact Carrie Steindorf, School Health Coordinator at the Rockland County Department of Health, 845-364-2360 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              845-364-2360      end_of_the_skype_highlighting, steindoc@co.rockland.ny.us. Visit www.rocklandsteps.org for more information about Steps to a Healthier Rockland.

    2010 Meeting Schedule

    Thursday October 7, 2010 1:30-3:00 PM

    Thursday December 2, 2010 1:30 - 3:00 PM

    BOCES   Conference Center, Building 10,

    65 Parrott Road, West Nyack, NY 10994

    Palisades Room

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  • Rockland Teachers Center Policy Board
    Available places: Unlimited
    Rockland Teachers' Center Policy Board Members' space. Here is where we can share initiatives and discuss issues. Here is where you can post important links for other Policy Board Members to learn about. This is our way of keeping connected between meetings — when there never seems enough time to learn and do all we need to do!
    Welcome aboard the Good Ship RTC!!
  • STAR
    Available places: Unlimited
    This course allows guest users to enter  This course requires an enrolment key
    STAR (Schools, Technology, Arts and Resources) - a place for members to learn and exchange information and resources with an emphasis on arts education and healthy school initiative. 
  • November 5 Sandbox
    Available places: Unlimited
    This course allows guest users to enter  This course requires an enrolment key
    This sandbox will be played with by members of RCTI on the November 5, 2009 professional development session.