Professional Development – Mine and Others I Mentor

See follow up article about work of 2008 Early Career  Educator of Color Cohort member, Shekema Silveri, 2011 Milken Educator Award  winner from Jonesboro, GA

Years of experience as a teacher have thought me that on-going professional development and enrichment are essential to increase educators’ knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs so that they can assist students in reaching high levels of learning. Professional development that is most effective in improving educator practice is results-oriented, data driven, constructivist in nature and job embedded.

Professional enrichment includes regular meetings with eager, enthusiastic educators who are experiencing success and satisfaction along their career path and planned gatherings that allow for both structured and unstructured conversations. It’s relationships that increase retention in this vocation.

 

Sample workshop topics:

Aligning-Curriculum-with-Common -Core-Standards-for-Literacy-in -the-Content-Areas

POETRY-TIME-Workshop - Teaching Strategies for Reading, Analysing,and Writing Poetry

 

Using-Art-in-ELA-Classes -To Explain, Expand, Explore and Assess Comprehension of Literature

Professional Organizations  for whom I have presented professional development and enrichment workshops for teachers :

California Association of Teachers of English

Conference on English Leadership

National Council of Teachers of English

Early Career-Educators of Color Leadership Institute

Michigan Council of Teachers of English

Pathways Program by the National Council of Teachers of English

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