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CORE Connections is committed to providing quality educational products and services. Our curriculum specialists and tutors have decades of total teaching experience. Our educational specialists' provide instructional enrichment and develop products for diverse K-8 learners. We can meet all of your educational needs. Make a connection and discover the CORE difference today!
Workshop Overview
Core Connections workshops are developed and led by experienced teachers. All trainers have taught five years or more using the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) in urban and suburban school districts. All trainers have actively current teacher licenses and 100% hold advanced degrees. 85% of Core Connections trainers hold dual certification in a content area, reading and/or special education. Teachers, media specialists, instructional coaches and educational support specialists have served as clients and have received coaching and professional feedback to improve their instructional delivery as well as increase content knowledge.
Core Connections has counseled teachers and developed action plans to assist teachers in developing classroom management strategies and techniques to improve student engagement and increase student achievement. In addition, Core Connections has conducted workshops on differentiated instruction and content reading integration in Needs Improvement urban (NI) schools.
** Other specialized services include: Performance Assessment Tasks, Higher-Order Thinking Skills & Questions, Portfolio-Assessment, Problem-Based Learning and Cooperative Learning, Parental Involvement, Bullying Prevention, Drop-Out Prevention, Mentoring, Tutorial, Basic Core Strategies, Making the Most of Instruction, and Literacy Development (Middle Grades and Elementary), Persuasive Writing (High School), Student Writing Conferences, Early Learning, Conflict Resolution, Character Development, Games-Based Instruction, Response to Intervention, Advanced Placement workshops (for teachers), Science workshops (all grade levels), Social Studies workshops (all grade levels).
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Differentiated Instruction (DI)
Targeted Audience: Educators in grades 4th-12th
Differentiated Instruction is an instructional concept that maximizes learning for all studentsregardless of skill level or background. It's based on the fact that in a typical classroom, students vary in their academic abilities, learning styles, personalities, interests, background knowledge and experiences, and levels of motivation for learning. Core Connections DI workshops are designed to enhance teachers instructional practices in order to improve student achievement for at-risk students, students with disabilities, English language learners and gifted students.
Core Connections DI workshops are divided into five two-hour modules.
Reading Across Content Areas Everyday (R.A.C.E.)
Targeted Audience: Educators in grades 6th-12th
Reading comprehension and making meaning of text is critical to the understanding of text in any subject area whether it be social studies, mathematics, or science. Research suggests that readers who comprehend are able to:
? know the goal of reading
? activate prior knowledge
? use their knowledge of text structure
? concentrate on ideas
? ask themselves questions while reading
? test their inferences
? evaluate meaning
R.A.C.E. helps middle and high school teachers gain knowledge and skills to assess students' reading skills; integrate speaking, listening, reading, and writing into all content areas; develop instructional tools to use with students; and teach comprehension strategies, word skills, study skills, and critical reading skills.
Classroom Management
Targeted Audience: Educators in grades PreK-12
The C.L.A.S.S. (Centering learning around simple strategies) multi-step observation process, offers support and individualized assistance to improve student behavior thereby positively impacting student achievement. By using this program, teachers will gain confidence, and simple strategies to improve classroom management and gain student respect for the content being presented in the classroom. This professional development series will also provide research-based effective strategies for working in a collaborative classroom environment that will strengthen and enhance the co-teaching model and improve student productivity within the classroom.
Writing Programs
The Write More... writing curriculum which serves as an aid to improve student writing scores. With the districts scores standing at 76.2% for middle grades, the Write More project will provide teachers with workshops and resources that will decrease the number of level 1 students while also seeking to increase the number of level 3 students in 5th, 8th, and 11th grade. These programs will also help teachers to improve their delivery of writing to students.
Cooperative Learning
Cooperative Learning professional development model focuses on helping teachers to develop student-centered instructional practices within the classroom that will encourage children to focus on working collectively to achieve a common goal. While Cooperative Learning enhances instruction, learning modules will emphasize opportunities to include Cooperative Learning consistently to increase student engagement and motivation. Making authentic real-world connections is an essential component with at-risk high school students; therefore learning modules are constructed to provide teachers with the opportunity to develop and utilize content-based Cooperative Learning strategies that will appeal to the high school learner.
Project Based Instruction
The Project-Based and Problem-Based learning professional development model focuses on helping teachers to develop student-centered instructional practices within the classroom that will encourage children to focus on the process of achieving a desired outcome. While PBL enhances instruction, learning modules will emphasize opportunities to include PBL performance tasks consistently to student engagement and motivation. Making authentic real-world connections is an essential component with at-risk high school students; therefore learning modules are constructed to provide teachers with the opportunity to develop content-based PBL performance tasks.
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