Search from a variety of resources to find the Professional Development to meet your needs.

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South Central KS Distance Learning Network

SCKDLN can provide professional development about the utilization of videoconferencing in your district. Presentations can be adapted to meet your specific needs. Equipment training and implementation is also available. School Board presentations are available upon request. These services are free for member districts. Contact Audra May with questions or to schedule. A Teacher Training and Facilitator Workshop is available at the beginning of each school year. Click on the link's below to find out information about the 2011-2012 dates:

Teacher Training 2011

Facilitator Workshop 2011

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CILC - (Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration) has a searchable database available with professional development opportunities. Click the link below to begin. You can search by keywords (such as: reading, math, etc...) or browse by provider.

CILC PD Marketplace  

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Here are just a few examples of the Sessions available in the CILC PD databse:

Title: Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning

Provider: Wesley Fryer

Description: Good teaching is similar in many ways to good cooking. Recipes are helpful, but master cooks often modify those to meet different needs and situations. The same is true for teachers. If we extend this analogy of cooking to teaching and learning in a web 2.0 world, what are the best "ingredients" to use as we help both teachers and students learn to be more effective, safe, and powerful communicators in our flat world? In this working session we will focus on five key ingredients: five key ingredients: Social Bookmarking, Collaborative Document Writing, Synchronous Conferencing, Online Photo Sharing, and Minimal Click Digital Storytelling. Cooking can be intimidating for novices, but richly rewarding. Let's learn to cook up some gourmet learning with some powerful (and free) web 2.0 tools!

Length: 45 minutes

Cost: $125 (SCKDLN members)

Title: Building Reading Comprehension Skills at Secondary Level

Provider: Christine Rush

Description: Are you looking for strategies to improve your students' reading comprehension in your content area? Do you need some fresh ideas to engage students with the text?
   Join Christine Rush, classroom teacher,department of education consultant, literacy coach and reading advocate as she shares dynamic strategies so your students can improve their reading comprehension skills and construct meaning from the text--the very text your students use in your classroom every day!
   Christine will share strategies from the CSR (Collaborative Strategic Reading) model that you can use in your classroom to better engage your students. She will address the importance of metacognition within the reading process and examine reading and comprehension research that supports these strategies.

Length: 60-90 minutes

Cost: $350.00

Title: Early Intervention in Reading

Provider: Ceil Critchley

Description: The Early Intervention in Reading Program is a daily, 20 minute supplemental small group reading program that helps struggling first and second graders learn to read and helps to build fluency and comprehension in grade 3 and 4 students who need more reading support. The kindergarten program helps students develop phonemic awareness and emergent literacy skills as they interact with literature. 
   The EIR program is delivered through a multimedia Internet program with support from an EIR trainer. Monthly staff development sessions help teachers refine the coaching they provide their students. This coaching helps children learn successful decoding and comprehension strategies. As teachers monitor children's use of strategies, the students gain confidence in their ability to read independently.
   The EIR instructional program can be readily integrated into classroom activities.

Length: 9 month course of study - 2 hours per month

Cost: $550.00

Title: Science that's Fun to Read and Teach

Provider: Vicki Cobb

Description: Vicki Cobb demonstrates principles of science and a process approach to science through visuals of her books, demonstrations, activities the participants can do in their seats and video tapes of kids doing activities.

Teachers will learn:
-how to tap into kids' natural curiosity
-practical hands-on "experiments" to use tomorrow
-how to fit the discovery method into your daily teaching
-how to integrate science into math, reading and writing.
-how to have fun teaching science

Length: 1 hour

Cost: $500.00

Title: New Technologies: A Virtual Symposium on Nanotechnology & Biotechnology for K-12 Science Teachers

Provider: UW-Madison Office of Education Outreach

Description: Two new technologies, nanotechnology and biotechnology are emerging as extremely important to the advancement of science and technology in the years ahead. The convergence of these two technologies brings great hope in solving many of the problems we face. From smart dust to bio-implants to molecular computing, the development of new tools will depend upon a scientifically literate populace supporting the necessary science and research. This program seeks to help science teachers learn more about the concepts and technology applications so as to better inform students and encourage them to investigate careers in science and technology.

Length: 7 hours

Cost: Per Participant - $150.00

Title: V for Victory: World War II on the Home Front Teacher Workshop

Provider: The National WWII Museum

Description: The National World War II Museum, "America's National World War II Museum," explores the contribution of Americans on the Home Front to our victory in WWII. Learn the WWII history Victory Gardens, rationing, War Bonds, propaganda posters, scrap drives, and more. Receive classroom-ready lesson plans, and discuss teaching strategies with the museum's education staff.

Length: 2 hours; for teachers of grades 5-12

Cost: $200.00

Title: Raising Achievement by Raising Confidence: Help for Struggling Math Students

Provider: Jeff Harker

Description: Participants will learn about a process to teach their students to be more self-directed in the classroom. We will use a process developed by Barry Zimmerman and others to begin to bridge the gaps students have between how they work and prepare for tests and the outcomes of those tests.

Length: 90 minutes

Cost: $150.00

And those are just a few! 

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