Professional Development and Training

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Apangea Learning's professional development and training includes an orientation to using a web-based supplemental program in conjunction with your regular mathematics program. This orientation can be delivered in one or two sessions that can be adapted to a whole or half day of work. Additionally, professional development programs can include on-site support and coaching for educators. These sessions can be spaced throughout the school year as needed. Typically these sessions run biannually or quarterly. Professional development follows a hands-on and minds-on approach with active engagement from all participants. These sessions is facilitate the growth of a professional learning community.

The orientation session has the following components:

Getting Started:

This portion of the professional development and training session involves the set-up and design of a supplemental math program. Participants will become familiar with program interface from both the student and teacher perspective.

Implementation Models:

To be successful, a supplemental math solution must be aligned with the implementation needs of a school. Participants will become familiar with different implementation models and will begin to plan their own implementation strategy.

Teaching with a Supplemental Program:

The educators facilitating a supplemental program need a full understanding of their role. Participants will become familiar with monitoring the computer lab, helping students be successful, and attending to formative assessment.

Student Expectations:

Students are only able to meet expectations if they are set appropriately and students are aware of them. Participants will develop a set of student expectations and discuss appropriate communication of expectation to students.

Linking to the Regular Classroom:

A supplemental program is only successful if it brings added value to the existing program. Participants will learn how to help students make connections between their work in the regular classroom and the supplemental program.

Using Program Data:

Teachers must continually assess student performance and use that assessment to make instructional decisions. Participants will learn to read and analyze basic reports and student work and consider the implications for student learning.