SPRING 2009 Courses
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Career Development
Exploring Remedial Resources for Math Instruction (Grades 1 - 6 skill level) TEWS669N
This is an opportunity for educators to get a quick overview of different remedial programs many tutors have found helpful in supporting math skills. We will focus on some of the more successful approaches to supporting students who struggle with both math concepts and computation and learn which programs tend to work best with different needs. These programs are designed for (or easily modified for) use one-on-one and in small groups. Get acquainted with a variety of programs including: Recipe for Math; Digiblocks; and Great Leaps Math.
* This is a follow-up to Starting Your Own Tutoring Practice (see below).
Ginny O'Hare is the Director of Outreach at the Mary McDowell Center for Learning in Brooklyn, NY, an elementary school for children with learning disabilities. In addition, she has an extensive private tutoring practice using multi-sensory methodologies.
April 4
Saturday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU only $265
Materials fee $5
Registration Deadline: 3/27
Starting Your Own Tutoring Practice: The Nuts and Bolts of it All TEWS652N
Want to start a tutoring practice, but don't know where to begin? This workshop will address how to determine what kind of tutoring makes the most sense for you and how to market yourself and your skills. Discussions will include such topics as: what to charge, tutoring at your home vs. student home vs. school, cancellation practices, becoming a DOE provider, where to get materials, policies, and professional practices.
Ginny O'Hare is the Director of Outreach at the Mary McDowell Center for Learning in Brooklyn, NY, an elementary school for children with learning disabilities. In addition, she has an extensive private tutoring practice using multi-sensory methodologies.
April 3
Friday, 5 - 8:30 pm
.3 CEU $160 (not offered for credit)
Materials fee $5
Registration Deadline 3/27
Writing Your First Children's Book TEWS598N
So you want to write a children's book! Here is a workshop to help you get started, once and for all. In this friendly, supportive environment, class discussions will focus on all aspects of good story telling and good writing, including tone of voice, clear dialogue, characters who feel real, and beautiful language. Teachers will return to their classes with a better understanding of the writing process so that they, in turn, can help each student to find pleasure in crafting a piece of writing in his or her voice.
Amy Hest is the author of more than 35 books for children of all ages, including In the Rain with Baby Duck (winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award), When Jessie Came Across the Sea (Christopher Award Winner), and Kiss Good Night (a New York Times best seller and Christopher Award Winner.) Hest's focus is on family relationships and she wants you to know that everything she writes is personal!
April 25, May 2, 9 and 16
Four Saturdays, 10 am - 1 pm
No credit $460 (not offered for credit or CEU)
Registration Deadline: 4/17
Writing for Publication TEWS633N
As teachers, we encounter countless stories ranging from the unusual lives of our students to new pedagogical approaches or strategies that we'd like to share. In this one-day workshop, participants will learn how to turn these stories into magazine or journal articles, op-ed pieces, or papers to present at conferences. We≠ll cover the basics of the magazine industry and how burgeoning writers can break in and establish credibility. Students will learn how to write compelling pitch letters, conduct background research and live interviews, and bundle it all together into engaging, saleable articles. We'll also study examples of story ideas that have sold and others that are particularly original or compelling˘ and we will learn about style, structure, and voice from the nut graf to the kicker.
*Please bring a story idea to class.
Cris Beam is an author and educator living in New York City. She wrote the book Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T (Harcourt, 2007) and has written for several national magazines including Marie Claire, Newsweek, Real Simple, and Out, as well as the public radio program "This American Life". Ms. Beam currently teaches creative writing at Columbia University, New York University, the New School and Bayview Women's Correctional Facility in New York. She's now working on a book about foster care in the U.S.
April 25
Saturday, 9:30 am - 3 pm
No credit $265 (not offered for credit)
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 4/17
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