Serving teachers in Cayuga County and western Onondaga County since 1984.
	Cayuga-Onondaga Teacher Center
	34 Wright Avenue Auburn, NY   13021 Phone:  (315) 258-5665      Fax:  (315) 258-7339

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The Cayuga-Onondaga County Teacher Center serves as a teacher training and information sharing complex, organized jointly by the public, non-public and post secondary schools, community and related public agencies of the region for the enhancement of teacher education.

The Cayuga Onondaga Teacher Center has moved to 34 Wright Avenue in Auburn NY.

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Upcoming Classes Classroom Management Series Teens and Tweens Welcome to the roller coaster years! Are you ready to relive puberty and adolescence, complete with all the angst and drama? This workshop will focus on physical, emotional, social and cognitive developmental issues related to youth ages 8-18. We will examine the competing needs and drives of students in upper elementary grades, middle school, and high school. Class participants will examine ways to create effective learning environments and tasks based on these developmental issues. The impact of popular culture on students of this age group is a key component of this class. We will also examine television, film, music and gaming popular with young people in order to better understand the messages (positive and negative) and the impact on our classrooms and families. DATE: February 8th TIME: 4:00 PRESENTER: Crystal Ponto, BOCES Alternative Education Teacher and Professor at Le Moyne College AUDIENCE: All Grade Levels Tired of Managing and Just want to Teach? Ideas and Reminders to Freshen up Your Classroom Management Is it time to learn some new classroom management solutions or rethink some of your present practice? Join us for tips and strategies from an experienced educator. DATES: Tuesday March 9, Thursday March 11, Tuesday March 16 and Thursday March 18 TIME: 4:00 PM PRESENTER: Karen Burcroff, Principal A.J. Smith, Union Springs and Nationally Board Certified Teacher AUDIENCE: All educators Karen Burcroff obtained her Undergraduate and Graduate degrees from Elmira College. She then obtained another graduate degree and her Administrative Certificate from SUNY Brockport. Karen did post-graduate work at University of Rochester in their Educational Leadership program. Karen taught in Waterloo for eight years (3rd and 5th grade). She was the Honeoye Elementary School Principal for 3 1/2 years and Union Springs principal for 4 years [also District Tech Coordinator for 2 years and District Curriculum Coordinator for 2 years]. Elementary Literacy K-5 Running Records Running records are a tool for coding, scoring, and analyzing a child’s reading. They give the teacher valuable information about the reader and are used to inform teaching. Participants will explore: What are running records? Why use running records? Taking a running record. Marking a running record. Scoring a running record. Interpreting a running record. Informing your teaching. Making teaching decisions. DATE: Thursday, March 4 TIME; 4:00 PM PRESENTER: Katie Wears, Weedsport Central School District AUDIENCE: Elementary K-3 Guided Reading Guided reading provides the framework to ensure that students are able to apply strategies to make meaning from print. The goal of guided reading is for students to use these strategies independently on their way to becoming fluent, skilled, habitual, passionate, independent readers. Participants will explore: what guided reading is, the elements of a guided reading lesson, the elements of a strategy lesson, book characteristics, what a leveled book collection is, and options for managing the rest of the class. DATE: Thursday, March 18, Thursday April 8 TIME; 4:00 PM PRESENTER: Katie Wears, Weedsport Central School District AUDIENCE: Elementary For three years, Katie taught kindergarten in the Paulding County School District, Georgia. When she returned to New York State, she secured a job in Weedsport, New York where she taught first grade for three years. She is currently a Literacy Coach at Weedsport Elementary School. Her teaching experience and training has provided her with a background in knowledge of curriculum, teaching and learning in a standards-based classroom, and summative and formative assessment, as well as balanced literacy. She has attended the Heinemann Workshop on Units of Study for Intermediate Grades by Lucy Calkins, October 2009. She has also attended The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project February 2007 Institute on the teaching of reading at Columbia University and The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project June/July 2009 Institute on the teaching of writing at Columbia University. Framework for Understanding Poverty During this session we will begin to understand the “Frameworks” that Ruby K. Payne has developed in her research of poverty. During this time of economic distress this research does have an impact as to the way educators think about and respond to students/families living in poverty. We will focus on the realities of: a. The research of poverty b. Causes of poverty c. Rural and urban poverty d. Generational and situational Poverty e. Patterns of poverty f. The hidden rules of economic class g. The two sets of rules h. Two things that help someone move FACILITATOR: Victoria Shepardson, Certified Frameworks Trainer DATE: April 6 and April 13 AUDIENCE: All educators, All grade levels Math T-I Inspire for Beginners – Two part series Receive activities and lessons that are ready for you to download and use in your classrooms with the NEW TI-Inspire technology. Engage your students and create a learning community where anyone in the room can lead the class from their seat. Assess student learning and have them investigate math with enthusiasm . DATE: Thursday, January 28 and Tuesday, February 9 TIME: 4:00 pm PRESENTER: Dana Morse, Educational Technology consultant Texas Instruments, for New York State Email to teachercenter@thumpernet.com for information or call 258-5665	America’s Promise Alliance Seymour Library Video in Teacher and Learning for Educators for New York State Educators New York Geographic Alliance Technology Corner Hello, my name is Brandon Murphy and I am the new Technology Specialist at the Cayuga Onondaga Teacher Center. I am a graduate of the Auburn School District. I have a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Social Studies from Niagara University. My master’s degree is in School Administration and Supervision also from Niagara University. For the past five years I have worked at the Cayuga Onondaga BOCES as a classroom teacher. Last year I had the opportunity to work for the Cayuga Onondaga Teacher Center as a Program Assistant. I am thrilled with my new role as Technology Specialist and I am excited to help teachers seamlessly integrate technology into their classroom instruction. I will hold presentations at the Teacher Center but I will also be available to come right to your school and help teachers who have technology concerns or teachers who want to integrate more technology in their teaching. All time spent with me will count as professional development hours and all instruction is free of charge. Please call me at 258-5665 if I can be of service to you. Thank you. Brandon Murphy Technology Specialist 258-5665 Upcoming Technology Classes Classroom Technology Overview January 26 Get introduced to smart boards, electronic chalkboards, classroom response systems, digital video cameras and a number of other useful technologies for the classroom. Get started using technology in the classroom. Streaming Video January 28 Find out how to use not only the existing BOCES streaming video system and several others. Start downloading clips and much more. Teachers will leave with a better understanding of streaming video and the capabilities to access the various video databases. This course will also look at using streamed video in class. Replace those old boring videos today!!! An Introduction to Moodle February 2 School Districts and BOCES throughout New York State are implementing Moodle as the tool of choice for K-12 educators to provide content and activities via the web. Participants will be introduced to the Moodle Course Management System and experience its capabilities by adding “Resources” and more to a Moodle environment. Teachers do not need their own Moodle accounts to attend. This course is for the pure beginner! Technology in the Elementary Classroom February 4 This class is designed to show the elementary teacher how to incorporate technology into their curriculum. Skills will be identified and steps outlined to lead students on how to save files, word process, create presentations and use the Internet. Useful web sites will be listed and new technology for Elementary Teachers will be discussed. Introduction to Interactive Whiteboards February 9 If you have an interactive white board or just want to learn about the features and benefits of this technology come to intro to interactive whiteboards and discover these benefits: · The interactive electronic whiteboard is great for demonstrations. · The board can accommodate different learning styles… · All ages of students respond favorably to board use… · One-computer classrooms can maximize the use of limited computer access… · The interactive whiteboard is an excellent tool for the constructivist educator… · Students with limited motor skills can enjoy board use… · It can interface well with other peripherals. · It is a kid magnet! … · Learners show increased motivation and enjoy the interaction the technology offers Thinkfinity February 11 Free quality lesson plans for all grade levels aligned to state standards. Thinkfinity allows teachers to search for interactives, lesson plans, primary sources, and activities quickly and easily. Go on a virtual field trip or play some math games...Come see how. Visual Presentations in the Classroom February 25 There are many ways teachers can present information to their students. Come see a few of these and get started incorporating visual information in your classroom. Check out a smart board, digital chalkboard, digital video cameras and classroom response systems. Design your presentations with PowerPoint and Inspiration. These presentation tools will increase student motivation and are easy to use. Google School Tools March 2 Lets take a look at Google tools and answer these questions: How can we use these tools for our own professional productivity? How can we incorporate these into our own schools? What can schools learn from innovative businesses? What are WE doing differently? Find out how thousands of teachers are using Google tools to transform their classroom. Podcasts, Vodcasts, and Digital Videos March 4 Education in the twenty-first century should focus on the development of authentic literacy skills for students. Learning to read, write, listen, speak, critically analyze information and communicate ideas using a variety of modalities is vital for children of all ages. Some of the most frequent complaints of writing teachers, however, revolve around a lack of student motivation to write. How can teachers increase students’ desire to express themselves effectively and appropriately? One of the most basic and powerful ways to increase student motivation to write and communicate is to change student perceptions of audience. Teachers can now challenge students to publish for a global listening and viewing audience via a classroom podcasts, vodcasts or digital video. This class provides an overview of the benefits of classroom podcasts, vodcasts and digital videos and showcases several exemplary examples teachers and students can use as models when creating their own. Helpful Websites for Teachers March 9 Visit a number of websites that can add efficiency and collaboration to your classroom. Leave with a list of new ideas and websites that can completely change your classroom. Wikis, Nings, Blogs and Twitter March 11 Find out the uses of these applications and how they can benefit your classroom. Get into 21st century tools and expand the use of technology in your classroom! Intel Teach Program March 18 The Intel® Teach Program helps teachers to be more effective educators through professional development focused on how to integrate technology into their lessons, promoting problem solving, critical thinking and collaboration skills among their students. With more than 6 million teachers trained in over 50 countries, Intel Teach is the largest, most successful program of its kind. Cool New Teacher Tools March 23 Check out cutting edge programs and equipment that can be used in your classroom. Your students will be excited and motivated to utilize these new applications! Web 2.0 March 25 What is web 2.0? How can it benefit teachers and education? Get the answer to these questions and leave with tools to transform your classroom and enter the digital age. Publisher Refresher March 30 Teach students to create brochures, newsletters, business cards, calendars based on your curriculum. Publisher is an easy way to make professional looking documents quickly and easily. Visual Learning System Training

Cayuga Onondaga Teacher Center, 34 Wright Avenue, Auburn, NY 13021

Phone:  (315) 258-5665      Fax:  (315) 258-7339

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Last Updated: 11/11/2009