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Chunking Lesson Plans™ – Using Precious Teaching Time to Reach More Learners – Seminar

Chunking Lesson Plans™ - Using Precious Teaching Time to Reach More Learners - Seminar will introduce teachers to real-time assessment and creative grouping techniques to focus their limited teaching time in a more productive way. Teachers will learn to teach their lessons in manageable CHUNKS, allow time for students to PROCESS that information with high yield, researched based methods, and then ASSESS student achievement at the end of a lesson to adjust the next lesson.

2021-03-24T16:45:54-04:00By Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP|0 Comments

Differentiated Instruction Seminar – Strategies to Reach ALL Learners in the Inclusive Classroom

Differentiated Instruction Strategies to Reach ALL Learners in the Inclusive Classroom - This full day program explores the ways that the brain learns and discusses a variety of brain-based, research supported, "implement tomorrow" strategies that will help teachers reach ALL the learners in their classrooms including gifted, English language learners and students with special needs. The strategies and techniques in this program can be used to support your school or district's differentiation initiatives, common-core implementation, or Response to Intervention requirements. If you want your teachers to realize increased achievement for their students, this program is the first step!

2021-03-24T16:45:20-04:00By Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP|0 Comments

Differentiated Instruction Strategy Blast – Seminar

Differentiated Instruction Strategy Blast - Seminar will show successful strategies that differentiate instruction, and motivate ALL students, especially students with special needs in the general classroom. Teachers will discover how to keep learners engaged, to help students with organization and memorization, increase critical thinking skills, and make learning fun and meaningful.

2021-03-24T16:46:22-04:00By Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP|0 Comments

General Education or Special Education and Response to Intervention

After co-teaching in inclusive classrooms and witnessing the benefits of inclusion done well in schools and school districts around the country, I am convinced that most students achieve more in the general classroom with an environment of excellent teaching. The trend towards tracking students in leveled classes based on test scores and ability has not been validated by credible research over time. The research on tracking/leveling is about as inconclusive and controversial as the research on homework. Find a study that claims students perform best in leveled classes and there's another one that states that students perform better in heterogeneous classes. Read how four schools faced the challenge of implementing RTI

2021-03-24T16:47:04-04:00By Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP|0 Comments

Stigma Sucks!

Let's differentiate instruction in the classroom so that ALL kids learn "differently" and succeed to their maximum potential without the negative stigma most struggling learners experience in school.

2021-03-24T16:49:27-04:00By Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP|0 Comments