Always Learning

I have been very lucky to have had many professional development opportunities.  In particular, participating in ASSET's i3 grant has helped me grow as an educator in so many ways. Below is a short list of some of the PD I have completed.

• Hosted several student observers and student teachers from Mount Aloysius University and Saint Francis University
• Smartboard Levels I and II training
• Response to Intervention and Instruction (RTII) in PA Conference
• Various Steve Dunn trainings in writing and reading
• Math: Teaching for Understanding Graduate class
• PVAAS and TeachScape (Teacher Effectiveness Model) training
• Intermediate Unit 8 Guided Reading training
• 2008 Reading First Coaches’ Institute University
• Autism awareness training
• Asset i3 Grant -Institute of Assessment, Institute of Inquiry, Module enrichment, Academy of Leadership I, curriculum planning, Academy of Leadership II, Academy of Leadership III, Science and Literacy Institute
• Brain research training
• Improving Student Achievement graduate class
• Differentiated Instruction graduate class
• Developing a professional portfolio training
• Classroom survival strategies training
• Science module training (Levers & Pulleys, Electricity, Floating & Sinking)
• Classroom management and school law training
• Inspiration Software training
• Teaching Quality Classroom Techniques training
• PA Economic Standards training
• Several co – teaching trainings