Does your school or organization need a free training program?

Does your organization host a conference, convention or series of workshops at least once a year?

If so, have you considered adding a workshops related to education?   Here are some topics

How to Use Portfolios to Get Into a Great University

(a workshop for students and their parents)

Visual and Active Study Methods

The Power of E-Books:  Free Digital Resources

Tips for Better Scores on the SAT, FCAT and other Standardized Tests

Very Cool Sites:   Educational Information on the Internet

I Saw It On Youtube:  The Educational Use of Videos

"Edu-taining":  How to Introduce Visual and Active Methods into Your Classroom

(for teachers and principals)

Visual and Active Learning

How you can help your children and their teachers do better in school

Skype for Business:  Building International Bridges for commerce 

Using Youtube in New Ways

Learning Through Internships

How to create interactive lessons that turn into careers

Alternatives to Grades and Tests:

The Power of "Narratives," Portfolios and "Exhibitions"

New Uses for Social Media 

People want to have other people to relate to

people flock together

People need a flock to belong to, they used to hang out in bars ... now they hang out on the Internet

See the range of workshops available from Transform-Education.com and EdutechFoundation.net.

--
Steve McCrea
Consultant
Founder, BIBPenpals.com

Visual and Active Teacher Training
VisualAndActive.com    visualandactive@gmail.com
Mobile  954 646 8246
here are links to some of my work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEgTB1tuKkM   Dennis Littky Big Picture Education Met Center Small School Providence

24 page booklet (for parents)  http://www.scribd.com/doc/15636953/In-Praise-of-Small-Schools-in-24-pages

I compiled some quotes from Littky's book   THE BIG PICTURE.

If you go to http://www.scribd.com/doc/15636702/A-Small-School-in-Florida-FindASmallSchoolcom  and scroll down to page 65, you will see the quotes that I pulled from Littky's book.

Free Online Course about using Videos for Homework

The Flipped Classroom

Traditional lectures take place in the classroom, the students take notes, and they do homework at home.

The Flipped Classroom happens when the lecture is delivered by VIDEO at home and the students come to school and do the homework in class.

This free online course has four parts:  

(a) Theory (why do we ask students to watch a video before class?)

(b) Tips about using a camera and tripod

(c) Set up the Youtube account   SET UP YOUR WEBPAGE

(d) Feedback (upload your first video and get some feedback)

These steps guide the course ONLINE and IN PERSON.

To get the "Face To Face" class, call +1 954 646 8246   

TRAINER'S SCRIPT (a) Theory (why do we ask students to watch a video before class?) 1.  Students can study the lecture 2.  Students can bring questions to class 3.  Students who don't watch the video can watch the video in the class. Look at good examples of the Flipped Classroom   (b) Tips about using a camera and tripod 1. Use a tripod 2.  Plan ahead 3.  Don't video yourself writing.   4.  Edit the video to remove "slow spots" and to add additional information 5.  Watch other people and copy the best (c) Set up the Youtube account Click here Go to Youtube.com and follow the steps  to set up an account Then learn how to UPLOAD videos (d) Feedback (upload your first video and get some feedback from the trainer) Set up your videos as PUBLIC so your students can find the videos.

Be comfortable with the uncomfortable

Random Learning
I returned a rental car during lunch on Wednesday during a conference. I rode back with Mr. Hidalgo who was listening to Dennis Prager on the radio and we got to talking.

"I tell my son, 'Be comfortable with the uncomfortable.' When he asks me to buy something for him," Mr. Hidalgo said, "I ask him to negotiate and find out about the warranty. He has to be ready to move forward by himself."

AN INTERESTING INTERNSHIP
"I tell my son to watch Hard Core Pawn. Anyone who watches that TV show for at least ten episodes will become better at business. If a young person could work there for a month, he would be set for life. I don't know why any teenager stands on a corner with a sign, waving it around. What does he learn doing that? It would be better to work in a store like Hard Core Pawn and really learn about how to run a business."

Two of his children are college graduates or in college, one at Columbia, and his third child (age 14) is in ninth grade. "I already took him to visit his brother at Columbia. I want him to think that this is part of his future." That's an engaged parent.

I'm at a conference to learn how to become a better teacher, how to find better learning materials and how to motivate students. I got my best tip from the guy who drives a shuttle bus. Bravo, Mr. Hidalgo.