2015 Northshore School District Summer Institute Course Catalog Use this catalog to plan your schedule. Make sure you sign up in PD Place to secure your seat. Hover over or select any class below to see the PD Place session number. View the tutorial, How to Sched at the 2015 NSD Summer Institute, for help using this schedule. Session materials can be accessed electronically at https://goo.gl/6jbm0R. NOTE: Sessions are open only to Northshore School District staff.
Motivating adolescents and supporting them as they become proficient readers is a task requiring multiple teaching strategies. In this interactive session, participants will engage in physical movement activities and work in collaborative groups to explore close reading strategies they can use when teaching reading to students. Participants will receive several strategies they can immediately take back to their classrooms to use and share with their colleagues. This workshop has been presented at the Kappa Delta Pi Convocation, the AMLE Conference, and ASCD.
This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event.
An informational and anecdotal presentation about structuring curriculum and instruction within the context of a co-taught classroom. Topics include:
Co-Teaching Styles
Instructional Strategies
Effective Planning
Supporting High Needs Students and Reluctant Learners
Classroom Dynamics
Challenges and Struggles
This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event.
Instructional Technology Coordinator, Northshore School District
I enjoy discussions around adult learning and coaching strategies as well as classroom technology and digital learning. I am currently focused on understanding the way AI is being developed for the K-12 educational landscape, and training teachers to use interactive panels with efficacy... Read More →
Monday August 17, 2015 10:40am - 10:55am PDT
222-224 WHS
We will use the ideas of Josef Albers to look at color and different phenomena behind color.
What we see is often considered reality. Using the ideas of Albers and the different concepts behind color theory we will discover that we don't actually pay attention to everything we think we see.
As a visual artist, it is important to know how people see. This lesson helps us understand the process of seeing.
This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event.
My students and I completed a large, outdoor, anamorphic chalk drawing. I'll share the techniques we used to create it and I will talk about the different learning involved.
It was an epic adventure that led to excellent team building with my students.
This session is part of the NSD Teacher Showcase, a full-day event where teachers share their expertise. Register for session #6043 in PD Place to attend this day-long event.
The NGSS calls for students to be able to design and refine models. Come and find out a way to do this via "energy theaters". Learn how to use them to teach students about the flow of various kinds of energy in physics, chemistry and biology.
This session is part of the New Professionals’ Academy for Secondary teachers, a series of required classes for first year teachers [grades 7 – 12] and also open to new to NSD teachers. This session is designed to support teachers as they transition through the first year of professional practice, to reinforce the TPEP work of the building principal and district leadership and to maintain highly skilled professionals for the Northshore School District.
Attendance at this session is by invitation only. This is required for all first year teachers and is recommended for all new hires.
Secondary Math Teachers will design lessons and tasks that incorporate strategies presented by Dan Meyer and in Principles To Actions. This session is OPTIONAL for secondary math teachers; register for PD Place session #6030. Clock hours and pay are available.
