Teacher Training Institute

June 28 - August 6, 2021

Professional learning opportunity to master today’s challenges in the classroom.

Teacher Training Institute allows educators to leverage their pedagogical practices and reimagine learning to empower students.

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As leaders in blended classroom experience, Choate Summer Programs is offering experienced and aspiring teachers the tools you need for a better year ahead.

Choate Summer Programs believe that teachers are the cornerstone of our society, as they mentor and shape young minds to the pinnacle of success. The TTI is designed to meet teachers where they are on their career path.

These professional development tracks provide tools, ideas, and skills you need to overcome the current challenges we have faced over the past year. The Institute covers topics on innovative technology, online & hybrid models, and cultivating an inclusive experience for your students.

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All online workshops meet synchronously from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST, Monday-Friday and will be led by accomplished faculty members via Zoom. The program is best suited for educators who teach upper elementary, middle, and secondary school students.

Experienced Teachers

Educators with 1+ year teaching experience

Selection of workshops| June 28 - July 16, 2021

Experienced Track Program Details

Workshops

Cost

Course Descriptions

Professional Development and Training

1. Tech Tools: Lessons Learned & Looking Ahead

The response to the coronavirus has demonstrated how technology can transform the way teaching and learning happen. Millions of teachers around the globe have adapted new technologies and are continuously exploring collaborative digital tools. As we look ahead at the future of education, it seems unlikely (for a variety of reasons) that teachers will revert to traditional teaching models. This workshop is designed to help teachers build upon their experience and learning over the past year. It offers them the opportunity to rethink education by opening up new ways of facilitating and mediating (online and hybrid) learning for their students. Furthermore, it will allow them to identify technological tools that maximize students’ learning while fostering their own teaching style.

2. Rethinking Assessments in the Online and Hybrid Models

Owing to the drastic change in the educational landscape, teachers are facing several challenges, particularly in the area of assessments. This workshop will address a key question: how to design and deliver assessments that demonstrate and support individual learning when students do not share the same physical space? Participants will explore effective assessment strategies that allow them to track and monitor students’ progress and proficiency in the learning targets while leveraging available platforms and tools. Additionally, teachers will receive carefully curated examples of formative and summative assessments where they can plot ideas and action-plans suited to their discipline.

3. Community by Design: A Guide to Build and Maintain a Sense of Belonging

With the shift to remote and hybrid learning, educators have expressed their concern about creating and maintaining robust communities of learners and peer collaborators. Depending on whether the classroom is synchronous, asynchronous, or hybrid, how will collaboration and social interaction be integrated into curriculum design so that classrooms are equitable for and inclusive of all students. This workshop provides strategies to develop more purposeful, intentional learning experiences that teachers can use and adapt across disciplines. Participants will engage in a range of activities and exercises, short readings, and conversations that address the diverse racial, cognitive, and cultural needs of learners.

Aspiring Teachers

Educators with <1 year teaching experience

Session I | 3-week workshop | June 28 – July 16, 2021

Session II | 3-week workshop | July 19 – August 6, 2021

Aspiring Track Program Details

Workshops

Professional Development and Training
Session I | 3-week program | June 28 – July 16, 2021

a. Designing for Online and Hybrid Learning
b. Technology Integration: What’s in my toolkit?
c. Equity and Inclusion: Benefitting from Difference in the Classroom

Teaching Practicum with Mentoring (must complete Professional Development and Training Session)
Session II | 3-week program | July 19 – August 6, 2021

Cost

Course Descriptions

Professional Development and Training

1. Designing for Online and Hybrid Learning

This workshop lays out the fundamentals of designing quality and engaging learning experiences in online and hybrid teaching models. It offers participants a framework to explore the potential and limitations of online learning, to design level-appropriate synchronous, asynchronous, and hybrid lesson-plans and assessments, and to nurture and promote an online learning community. Participants will be introduced to learner-centered teaching strategies and approaches that could be implemented in their classrooms. These sessions will culminate with a project that demonstrates participants’ learning.

2. Technology Integration: What’s in my toolkit?

Generation Z is the most technologically apt generation our world has ever seen. However, despite this reality and the ever-changing global educational landscape, some classrooms and teachers do not share the same level of comfort and familiarity with technology. This workshop introduces a range of classroom technologies to encourage their use in enhancing student engagement and subsequent achievement. Participants will learn how to facilitate student learning and inspire creativity. Furthermore, they will design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments, and promote model digital citizenship and responsibility. This workshop will culminate with a project that demonstrates participants’ learning.

3. Equity and Inclusion: Benefitting from Difference in the Classroom

With the increased complexities of online and hybrid models as well as the imperative response to pervasive racist structures and systems, teaching for change is, today and going forward, an enduring priority. This workshop introduces participants to a range of sustainable, culturally-responsive, and equitable strategies for intentional student support. Participants will learn specific design considerations to curate content, create conditions that support students in accessing and engaging in learning, offer feedback, and leverage students’ stories and voices to foster a sense of belonging in the “classroom.” This workshop will make room for participants to reflect on prior learning experiences, set personal goals, and empower them to act on their takeaways.

Teaching Practicum with Mentoring

The Teaching Practicum with Mentoring allows aspiring teachers to put what they have learned in the Professional Development and Training workshops into practice. Aspiring teachers will be matched each by the TTI Program Director with two experienced teachers who will serve as their mentors. Aspiring teachers will work closely with their assigned mentors to co-teach two online courses based on their areas of study and interest. They will benefit from their mentors’ experience and advice aimed at empowering them with the knowledge, abilities, and attitudes, in an integrated way, necessary for the development of their profession. The aspiring teachers/mentees will design lesson-plans and synchronous and asynchronous activities and assessments. Furthermore, they will teach and offer feedback to their students. They will also plan and manage the goals and directions of their professional path.

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