Cattaraugus Allegany Professional Development Courses

We are currently looking for teachers and/or administrators in the area to offer their expertise. But wait, there's more... We'll pay you for spreading your knowledge. Please e-mail me (email on home page) with your ideas for a course. I will run it by our board. If they accept it, we'll start to schedule times.

Here's a list of other workshops that we currently offer:

Course

Instructor or other info

Purchased video course:
How to Successfully Teach Math Facts and Word Problems Strategies To All Students

Otter Creek Institute - Don Crawford (click here for info on Word Doc)

Purchased video course:
Teaching Systematic Phonics

Otter Creek Institute - click here for info on Word doc

Purchased video course:
Strengthening Student Skills in Reading Fluency

Otter Creek Institute - click here for info on Word doc

Team Building

Gene Jankowski, Salamanca

Understanding Generational Poverty

Ann Smith / Maggie Smith, Salamanca

A note about Tim's courses: I am very flexible with the courses or help that I will offer. If you have a group of teachers that want to apply a particular program to their grade level or discipline, I'll come in and work with them, trying to find solutions to their particular problem or need. I do recommend that we set aside a larger block of time, either after school or during the day. The best way to learn this stuff is to sit down and perform a task that you need for your classroom.
I will make myself available as much as possible, but please remember that I'm a one man show.

Photo courtesy of www.onemanband.org.

Here's a list of workshops that Tim can run for you:

Becoming More Efficient: Basic Computer Skills

Graphic Organizers - Use With Technology

Using Excel For Grading

Classroom uses for Spreadsheets

Using RegentsPrep.org

Building An Electronic Portfolio

Dealing With Digital Images Without Going Nuts

Teacher Web Pages

PowerPoint Basics

Advanced PowerPoint Skills

Basic Skills in MS Word

Advanced MS Word Skills

Last but not least:
The ASK program: Anonymously Seeking Knowledge. This is a one on one question/answer program where no questions are too silly to ask!

The workshops above are a few examples of what I can help your teachers with. If you want something customized for a few people, that's no problem. Just email me.

Get some help from the Teacher Center with the Breeze program:

If you need some tech help, feel free to call me. I can even help you over your computer. BOCES has been allowing me to use their Breeze software, and it has a really cool meeting feature. All you need is your computer and a microphone (or your telephone) to do a meeting with me on your computer.

Check out this link -
Sample Breeze meeting - to see what I mean. This is a sample meeting that I recorded. Your speakers need to be on. We even hope to have some of our board meetings using Breeze.