Professional Learning Opportunities
Our continuing education sessions have been developed to meet the needs of our community. They are open to individuals as well as school groups, unless noted. Do you have specific learning objectives for your school or learning community? Contact us about designing something to fit your needs.
Current Offerings
Cognitive Coaching℠ 8-Day Foundations Course: Leadership Training to Support and Enhance Teacher Thinking Processes Learn More
Using Micro:Bit to Integrate Computational Thinking & STEM Across the Curriculum Online Course: Participants will use the BBC Micro:Bit to apply the concepts, practices and dispositions of Computational Thinking and STEM to invent solutions to challenges. Learn More
Overview
The 8-Day Foundations Course is a year-long leadership training course designed for administrators and instructional coaches. Participants learn the skills needed to support and enhance teacher thinking processes.
The mission of Cognitive Coaching℠ is to produce self-directed persons with the cognitive capacity for excellence both independently and as members of a community. Research indicates that teaching is a complex intellectual activity and that teachers who think at higher levels produce students who are higher achieving, more cooperative, and better problem solvers. It is the invisible skills of teaching, the thinking processes that underlie instructional decisions, which produce superior instruction. Cognitive Coaching℠ is a research-based model that capitalizes upon and enhances teachers' cognitive processes.
Learning Outcomes
Meeting a total of 8-days during the 2020-2021 school year, participants will learn to:
Cost
$1,000/participant
Materials are included. Lunch is on your own.
Course Dates* are:
Participants meet 9am - 4pm on scheduled dates.
*Inclement Weather Make-up Dates: Thursday, June 24, 2021 and Friday, June 25, 2021 (ONLY IF NEEDED).
Location
Trinity Baptist Church - Solomon’s Porch Fellowship Hall (2003 Charleston Hwy, Cayce, SC 29033)
Note: We prioritizes the health and safety of our staff and of those who participate in our professional learning offerings. Facilitators will wear a mask and/or face shield and practice social distancing. For this training our registration is capped at 30 participants. Our training space has a capacity for 250, so we have plenty of room to practice social distancing. If you have other questions or concerns on our protocols, please contact us.
Registration Deadline
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 5:00pm or when our maximum of 30 participants is reached.
Download Informational Flyer
Have a large group or would like to inquire about training for a district or school? Contact solutions@s2temsc.org.
The 8-Day Foundations Course is a year-long leadership training course designed for administrators and instructional coaches. Participants learn the skills needed to support and enhance teacher thinking processes.
The mission of Cognitive Coaching℠ is to produce self-directed persons with the cognitive capacity for excellence both independently and as members of a community. Research indicates that teaching is a complex intellectual activity and that teachers who think at higher levels produce students who are higher achieving, more cooperative, and better problem solvers. It is the invisible skills of teaching, the thinking processes that underlie instructional decisions, which produce superior instruction. Cognitive Coaching℠ is a research-based model that capitalizes upon and enhances teachers' cognitive processes.
Learning Outcomes
Meeting a total of 8-days during the 2020-2021 school year, participants will learn to:
- build trust by developing physical and verbal rapport.
- develop an identity as a mediator of people's thinking.
- utilize three mediative maps for planning, reflecting and problem resolving.
- facilitate self-directed learning through reflective questioning.
- develop teachers' autonomy and sense of community.
- develop higher levels of efficacy, consciousness, craftsmanship, flexibility and interdependence.
- distinguish four support functions: coaching, evaluating, consulting, collaborating.
- practice coaching interactions to differentiate for individual needs.
- utilize the coaching toolkit of pause, paraphrase, and pose a question.
- apply coaching skills that enhance the intellectual processes of instruction.
- distinguish between the five categories of feedback.
Cost
$1,000/participant
Materials are included. Lunch is on your own.
Course Dates* are:
- Day 1: Friday, January 15, 2021
- Day 2: Friday, February 12, 2021
- Day 3: Friday, February 26, 2021
- Day 4: Thursday, March 4, 2021
- Day 5: Thursday, March 25, 2021
- Day 6: Thursday, April 22, 2021
- Day 7: Thursday, May 6, 2021
- Day 8: Thursday, May 20, 2021
Participants meet 9am - 4pm on scheduled dates.
*Inclement Weather Make-up Dates: Thursday, June 24, 2021 and Friday, June 25, 2021 (ONLY IF NEEDED).
Location
Trinity Baptist Church - Solomon’s Porch Fellowship Hall (2003 Charleston Hwy, Cayce, SC 29033)
Note: We prioritizes the health and safety of our staff and of those who participate in our professional learning offerings. Facilitators will wear a mask and/or face shield and practice social distancing. For this training our registration is capped at 30 participants. Our training space has a capacity for 250, so we have plenty of room to practice social distancing. If you have other questions or concerns on our protocols, please contact us.
Registration Deadline
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 5:00pm or when our maximum of 30 participants is reached.
Download Informational Flyer
Have a large group or would like to inquire about training for a district or school? Contact solutions@s2temsc.org.
Overview
Participants will use the BBC Micro:Bit to apply the concepts, practices and dispositions of Computational Thinking and STEM to invent solutions to challenges across content and grade bands (3rd -12th grades). Prerequisite: Intermediate to advanced technology proficiency and some experience using block coding.
Learning Outcomes
Upon course completion, participants will receive 10 hours of renewal credit. This training meets the ISTE Standards for Educators and can be used to meet technology proficiency requirements when approved by your district.
Cost
$150/person (includes a personal BBC MicroBit kit valued at $50)
Course Dates
This course will be conducted online from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm on the following days:
Registration Deadline
Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 5:00
Download Informational Flyer
Have a large group or would like to inquire about training for a district or school? Contact solutions@s2temsc.org.
Participants will use the BBC Micro:Bit to apply the concepts, practices and dispositions of Computational Thinking and STEM to invent solutions to challenges across content and grade bands (3rd -12th grades). Prerequisite: Intermediate to advanced technology proficiency and some experience using block coding.
Learning Outcomes
- Use Microsoft Make-Code, CT concepts, habits of mind and STEM processes, to code a BBC Micro:Bit.
- Invent solutions to cross content grade banded challenges using the Micro:Bit, CT concepts, habits of mind and STEM processes.
- Relate the Micro:Bit solutions to how robotics and coding can be integrated into 3rd-12th grade content areas
Upon course completion, participants will receive 10 hours of renewal credit. This training meets the ISTE Standards for Educators and can be used to meet technology proficiency requirements when approved by your district.
Cost
$150/person (includes a personal BBC MicroBit kit valued at $50)
Course Dates
This course will be conducted online from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm on the following days:
- Session 1: Thursday, October 29, 2020
- Session 2: Tuesday, November 10, 2020
- Session 3: Thursday, November 12, 2020
- Session 4: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
- Session 5: Thursday, November 19, 2020
Registration Deadline
Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 5:00
Download Informational Flyer
Have a large group or would like to inquire about training for a district or school? Contact solutions@s2temsc.org.
