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Information about July 16-20 2012 Institute Go here for class syllabus, and other links.

Become your school's ASSISTments Leader/Trainer

This is a workshop to train the trainer of ASSISTments

Participants will leave this training with a complete curriculum for an 18 hours of training to use with the teachers they work with. This workshop is intended for teacher leaders such as department heads or coaches. Prior experience with ASSISTments is not necessary but advisable, even if it is running a few classes in the spring. Highly skilled ASSISTments users are perfect for this work. We will teach participants how to use ASSISTments while also covering how best to train teachers using ASSISTments. This group of teacher-trainers will leave the workshop with the skills needed to train and support the faculty at the school they work at. We will also form a online community of trainers who can support each other during the year.

Even though this is an institute for trainers each trainer is more than welcome to bring a partner or two with them. It is much easier to remember everything if you can put your heads together. However if your district is planning to have one person be trained by us and then go back to train others that will work fine. Teachers who come alone will be partnered up with other participants.

• Principals and other school leaders are invited to join the institute during the final day, Friday July 20, to hear presentation of the participants work. This will facilitate cooperation between teachers and school leadership on the activities developed in the institute.

For more information or to ask questions contact Cristina Heffernan at ch@wpi.edu.

Event Details

Dates

• July 16 - 20, 2012:
  • You may want to attend a training in May or June and get a head start. We find that participants who test driven the system with their students (or in the case of a teacher trainer with a teacher and his or her students) are much more prepared to participate in the summer.

Time

Work will begin at 8:00 and go until 4:00.

Food

Snacks will be provided each day.

Location

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA

Higgins Lab 230

If you need a place to stay in Worcester one Suggested Hotel is the Courtyard Marriott Worcester; it is walking distance to campus.

Cost

$450 for all 5 days for the first participant from a school or district, $400 for each additional teacher.

College Credits

For a fee of $75/ credit you can take the course and earn 2 credits. We are working on arrangements to receive one other credit if you do a research project based on ASSISTments.

How to Sign Up

Register by June 15th, 2012.

Register online at this link. If you are using a purchase order submit the number in the registration form. Your place will not be held until your payment is in. If you must cancel do so by July 1st and we will refund 50% of your payment.

Make Checks out to WPI (write ASSISTments Institute in the memo line) and send to:

Tricia Desmarais

c/o Computer Science Department

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

100 Institute Way

Worcester, MA 01609

What will be covered in the 5 days?

The ASSISTments Platform is a web-based system by which teachers can freely make accounts, write or select questions and create assistance for students who get the questions incorrect. Teacher and students get instant reports detailing the responses for each item. These reports can then be used to inform instruction. These reports are aligned directly to the Common Core Standards.

Participants will learn how to use ASSISTments as a tool for common assessments across teachers and as a way to facilitate discussions about data with teachers. ASSISTments is merely a tool, it will be us to you to teach the teachers and students in your school how to engage with the data. You will learn to build your own content but you will also have access to the thousands of questions already in the system for 4th to 10th grade math.

Since the system is a tool it is used in a variety of ways. You will hear stories from many different schools and begin to design your school's story.

Summer Institute

OBJECTIVES: The participant will be able to:

1. Facilitate long and short workshops with teachers at your school.
2. Create classes, assignments and be ready to enroll students.
3. Use the “quick builder” and the editor to make ASSISTments. Including uploading an image.
4. Utilize, Parent Notification, Open Response Critique, Data Driven rules and ARRS.
5. Create a curriculum of problem sets to assess your instructional objectives.
6. Track assessment of Common Core Standards.
7. Organize curriculum in the “School Folder”
8. Develop a routine that is sustainable and will foster formative assessment.
9. Share ASSISTments and problem sets with the community.

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