Professional Development Workshops (Teacher Training)

Here is a list of the most popular teacher training workshops we offer. Or, download a catalog. Please contact us for details or to tailor a workshop to your needs.

Advanced Sentence Structure
Assessing Your Students' Pronunciation Needs
Basic Sentence Sense
Beyond the Point Paragraph
Build Web Pages for any Budget
Create Your Own Cyber Folder
Crossroads Café
Designer Punctuation
Echo Reading and other enriching activities with tapes and CDs
Field Trips
Games, Games. Games!
Integrating Technology into the Curriculum
Lesson Planning: Classy Ideas
Magic Cards
Maptitude!
Mental Flexibility I and II
Motivating with Multimedia
MS-Word: Building on what we already know
On Common Ground
Paperless Correction
PowerPoint: Powerful Lectures Get Their Point Across
Presentation Success
Pronunciation Fun!
Public Access Television and your class
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
Responding to ESL student errors in writing and speaking
Seven Keys to American Pronunciation (AKA American Speech Music)
Spelling Matters
Table Topics
Using the Word by Word Picture Dictionary

Using the Word by Word Picture Dictionary
Discover the myriad ways this resource can be used in the beginning and intermediate level classes.

Crossroads Café
Make use of one of the most engaging resources available for middle level learners of English.

On Common Ground
From the producers of Crossroads café comes this excellent resource for your advanced ESL, Pre-GED, and citizenship students.

PowerPoint: Powerful Lectures Get Their Point Across
Make your lectures more memorable with PowerPoint. Some students respond to visual cues, others to auditory cues. PowerPoint provides both. Build on your knowledge of Microsoft Word to learn to make a "slide show" of your lectures that speak to your students' multiple intelligences. Best of all, it's quick and easy to do. No need for a fancy computer projector to use PowerPoint. We'll show you how to make your slide show presentation into overheads as well.

Lesson Planning: Classy Ideas
Need some variety in your classroom activities? You will be amazed at the number of warm-up, reinforcement, and assessment activities for vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading, writing, and research available to you.

Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
Based on the teaching guide by the same name published by Teaching for Change and PRRAC teachers and students will understand the complexities of the change process in society, making the study of history immediately relevant.

Field Trips
Create your own educational field trips or choose from many already created.

Mental Flexibility I and II
Build your thinking power by looking at the world in new ways, letting go of snap reactions, appreciating other points of view and much more.

Table Topics
Table Topics and other activities you can use from Toastmasters International to improve your students' public speaking and leadership skills.

Responding to ESL student errors in writing and speaking
Learn why feedback is important and how to give it effectively, including how to respond to developmental errors, fossilized errors, and transfer errors.

Paperless Correction
Eliminate paper and use MS Word to help students correct and revise their writing.

Spelling Matters
Help your students overcome the most common problems in spelling.

Basic Sentence Sense
Sentence types and punctuation

Advanced Sentence Structure
Learn how to help you and your students make your sentences SING!

Designer Punctuation
While mastering the comma is essential to writing well, using "advanced" punctuation marks such as the colon, dash, parenthesis will give your writing pizzazz.

Beyond the Point Paragraph
While many paragraphs should begin with a topic sentence followed by support and detail sentences, there are other patterns. Variety is the spice of life.

Vocabulary Development for Rocket Scientists
Studies show that the highest paid people in society have the greatest vocabularies. Moreover, the more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think. Learn the methods for rapid vocabulary development and gain the tools to get the job done.

Echo Reading and other enriching activities with tapes and CDs
Use your taped dialogues and readings in new and exciting ways.

Motivating with Multimedia
Nothing motivates a class more than a video. What's the best way to use videos and what other types of media are available?

Maptitude!
Games and activities for integrating geography into the classroom

MS-Word: Building on what we already know
Learn how Microsoft Word or other word processing programs can accelerate your students learning. Inspire them by learning how to insert photos with or without a digital camera. Use templates to create multimedia reports of student's work.

Games Games Games!
There are games for every possible need. Learn where to find games for your classes and how to adapt some of your favorites to match your needs.
Lesson planning: Fail To Plan Your Lesson or Plan To Fail
Locate valuable sources of lesson plans using newspapers, video, movies, television, and radio. Learn to guide your students to self-study or reinforcement activities in class. Locate websites designed specifically for ESL students.

The Seven Keys to American Pronunciation (AKA American Speech Music)
Once your students learn to carry the tune of American speech music -- intonation, rhythm, and stress patterns -- they will finally be understood.

Create Your Own Cyber Folder
In this workshop you will learn how to create your own Cyber Folder where you and your students can carry on threaded discussions, chat, and share documents, photos, calendars, to-do lists, and more. This versatile tool is free, so don't miss out.

Build Web Pages for any Budget
Create web pages three ways: free, low-cost, luxury.

Public Access Television and your class
Create your own television shows and even have them shown on cable TV for a very affordable price.

Integrating Technology into the Curriculum
The Department of Education says second graders should be using a mouse and a digital camera. Fifth-graders should be able to handle online discussions and create multimedia reports. High school students should be able to collaborate with experts and peers on creative project. If you're like many teaching professionals today, you are a mere second grader when it comes to technology. You can use a mouse, but you're a little shaky as to how to use a digital camera. We know that technology alone will not improve education - it's just a tool. Learn how to harness the tools of technology in the classroom with this workshop.

The Magic of Magic Cards
Learn how index cards can help your students add to their vocabulary, improve their pronunciation, and eliminate pesky grammar errors.

Assessing your Students' Pronunciation Needs
Hands-on workshop using videotaped examples for practice.

Pronunciation Fun!
Pronunciation practice does not have to be a bunch of repetition and drilling. Learn some dynamic activities to help your students overcome some of their persistent pronunciation problems.

Presentation Success
Learn how to prepare a course for native and non-native speakers of English on giving presentations. Aside from the usual tips for organizing and developing speeches, this workshop covers how to use visual aids effectively, creating rapport with the audience, and handling questions and answer sessions. Special attention is given to the delivery of speeches with eliminating fillers, crisply enunciating key words, and drawing dramatic contrasts. Effective presentation skills are demonstrated through videotaped examples of real students.

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