Please note: This online course offered by the SRI&ETTC can be taken any day or time during the month. To take this course at another time please contact the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850. If you are a school district looking to register multiple educators please contact the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Dyslexia, the most recognized of reading problems, is a neurological disorder that is often characterized by difficulties in recognizing and decoding words, leading to lower comprehension and fluency. Although there is no exact count, it is estimated that one in ten people may be afflicted with some form of Dyslexia.

Legislation on Dyslexia signed in August 2014 prominently recognized Dyslexia in state statute and regulation, mandating a requirement for districts to pro-actively deal with this disability. A definition of Dyslexia is now written into Special Education code and a yearly 2-hour professional development requirement for Dyslexia is now mandated for all teachers in grades pre-K through grade 3, special education, reading and ESL teachers, reading specialists, learning disabilities teacher consultants, and speech-language specialists.

Participants should already have had a preliminary workshop on Dyslexia such that they have a general knowledge about the legislation, definition, warning signs, and characteristics of Dyslexia. This two-hour training will provide participants with information about specific teaching strategies and techniques used to work with students with Dyslexia, as well as additional information about its characteristics, use of technology, and screening.

Please note online workshop access will be granted after ETTC Hours approval or payment is received. Please contact the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850 regarding this matter.

Course running time: 2 Hours
Cost: $106 OR 4 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Please note: This online course offered by the SRI&ETTC can be taken any day or time during the month. To take this course at another time please contact the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850. If you are a school district looking to register multiple educators please contact the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

The Teacher Effectiveness Institute is a series of four webinars designed to support the novice teacher on important topics that they will need to know throughout the school year. It is appropriate for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year teachers.

Participants will review the rudiments of educational practice and explore the many roles a teacher may be expected to play during a typical day as an educator in the school community. Practical suggestions and proven classroom strategies on varied topics will be discussed during each session.

Part 1: Preparing for the School Year
Part 2: Strategies for Increased Parent Support
Part 3: The "Good Kind" of Assessment
Part 4: Supporting Special Education Students in the Classroom

Please note online workshop access will be granted after ETTC Hours approval or payment is received. Please contact the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850 regarding this matter.

Cost: $87 OR 3 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, contact the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850 or ettc@stockton.edu.

Please note: This online course offered by the SRI&ETTC can be taken any day or time during the month. To take this course at another time please contact the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850. If you are a school district looking to register multiple educators please contact the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

This one hour webinar of the very successful and popular workshop will provide SPICE training demonstrating how to identify and apply skills needed to teach and enhance writing abilities at the elementary and middle school level. Language Arts teachers, special education teachers and ELL teachers will learn a variety of techniques designed through years of practical use. SPICE strategies have proven successful in improving state assessment scores.

After a review of numerous compositional risks, participants will learn and practice unique assessment tools, skill application strategies for all prompts, test timing awareness and encouragement tips. The focus will be on teaching students to simply "learn how to write" for any type of assignment or prompt. Writing with SPICE builds lifelong student skills, makes both the teaching and learning of writing skills less stressful, and can immediately be implemented in the classroom.

The Writing with Spice webinar is presented by Mike Devono.
Mr. Devono is a former teacher and author of Teaching Writing with Spice, the definitive text to identify and apply the skills needed to track and enhance writing abilities.

Please note online workshop access will be granted after ETTC Hours approval or payment is received. Please contact the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850 regarding this matter.

Course running time: 1 hour
Cost: $48 OR 2 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, contact the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850 or ettc@stockton.edu.

Applied Digital Skills is a free, online curriculum that is completely Video-Based. These lessons prepare you and Late Elementary, Middle and High School students to take on the digital challenges that are required in today's workforce. The lessons are all project-based, authentic and utilize real tools. They are perfect for distance learning as well. The lessons are linked with ISTE and State standards. Topics include The four C's, Organization, Budgeting, Research, group decision making and problem-solving from the "practical skills perspective." From the tech perspective the skills utilized are: Coding, spreadsheets, website publishing, data visualization and more. The lessons are designed for all subject areas. Learn how to get started with these valuable learning resources and learn any combo of these skills along with your students.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $82.00 or 3 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

This workshop focuses on strategies for designing online learning experiences. Frameworks that support online learning will be examined, including the 5 E's Framework, as well as Universal Design for Learning. In addition, participants will learn how to create a dynamic agenda, make lessons interactive, pace lessons appropriately, assign clear deliverables, and provide feedback in the virtual environment.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include the opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

The workshop will be presented by Kim Tucker.
After serving 20 years as a public school teacher and 11 as a public school administrator, Kim is now an adjunct professor of Early Childhood Education at Stockton University. In addition, she is an educational consultant for ETTC, NJPSA and New Jersey school districts. As a board member and former president of Learning Forward New Jersey, Kim is passionate about providing quality professional learning to educators on a variety of topics.

Cost: $106.00 or 4 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Augment student voice with the wildly popular Flipgrid digital communication platform while encouraging youth engagement in the resolution of international issues. Teachers can promote global competence and citizenship in their curriculum by introducing Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. Students can think of themselves as Global Citizens as they collaborate with classrooms around the world to balance economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $82.00 or 3 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

This webinar will focus on the multicultural influences that impact daily life in urban, suburban and even rural America. Interactive online reference materials will enable teachers to enhance their knowledge of ideas, norms, social behaviors. K-12 educators will become more familiar with mapping cultures via demographics; identify geographical locations; grasp cross-cultural diversity; and relate to the direct effect of family values, customs based on religion, intergenerational social dynamics, communities, languages, music, poetry and even sports.

Activities will include but not be limited to varied examples of multicultural engagement via online access to select digital reference sources.

Presented by Dr. Arnaldo Cordero-Román, associate professor of Spanish at Stockton University.
This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $50.00 or 2 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Students are all different and all learn differently. "One size fits all" is not a motto used in education. As teachers, we must determine what works best for our learners. There are many factors that need to be considered when teachers determine what to teach, how to teach it, and how students should perform - all based on the students themselves. In order to reach all learners, differentiation needs to take place with respect to content, process, and product according to learning styles, levels, and interests. This workshop provides how this can be done and resources to support teachers in doing so. It also focuses specifically on technology tools to address the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners in our classes.

Participants will understand "what to do" in order to differentiate the content, process, and product for students and "how to do it" with respect to specific instructional strategies. In addition, participants will learn about their learning style, how to assess their students and explore technology tools to support the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners in their class. Educators will leave the workshop able to create a technology-infused, differentiated lesson ready to be immediately implemented.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include the opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $106.00 or 4 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Want to teach coding to your grades 4-8 learners but don't know where to start? Have you been teaching Scratch but keep hitting brick walls or running out of project ideas? This workshop is for you. CS First is a free web-based program that exposes students to computer science through video tutorials and modules that they can complete at their own pace. Every lesson is ready-to-go from top-to-bottom. You simply have to choose your lesson and implement it. Get started right away with this hands-on workshop. Even if you are an expert coder these lessons will be a breath of fresh air for practical classroom applications or after school project ideas. Great for teaching CS skills from a distance too!

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $82.00 or 3 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Sure, you know how to find a YouTube video, you even know how to link to it or include it in a presentation. But there is so much more. This webinar will cover strategic searching and creating playlists of related content to share with your students. Learn how to post your own videos or screencasts and utilize YouTube's hidden studio features to edit, add music or even blur portions of your video that may need to be hidden from the public.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $82.00 or 3 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Intervention and Referral Services (I&RS) Team Training is designed to provide schools which have new or reorganized (e.g, new members, new structure) school building I&RS teams with basic information, materials and skills to help them fulfill the regulatory requirements for the planning, development, implementation and maintenance of programs of I&RS (N.J.A.C. 6A:16-8). This training can also be used to provide review for existing teams. Workshop focus will include identifying and addressing academic, behavior and health issues and developing effective intervention strategies and action plans. In this training participants will also discuss how to incorporate RTI into the I&RS process.

The Intervention and Referral Services (I&RS) Team Training will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an overview of the I&RS Process and the opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $106.00 or 4 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

EdPuzzle is a free, easy-to-use platform allowing you to engage every student, one video at a time. Participants will learn how to take videos that are already created, as well as their own videos, and make them interactive for students by embedding assessments. Explore the teacher and student views, the grading options, and integration with Google Classroom.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $82.00 or 3 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Imagine the Atlantic Ocean as a cultural hub connecting African cultures in various forms to that of Europe and the Americas. The Black Atlantic highlights the importance African contributions to the Atlantic region. We will explore the lives and identities of Africans and their descendants, examine communities they built, and trace cultural retention, transformations, and disconnections that resulted from these histories.

Presented by Dr. Kameika Murphy, Assistant Professor of Atlantic history at Stockton University.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $50.00 or 2 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

This hands-on workshop is designed to increase teachers' awareness of questioning techniques and strategies in order to create cognitive challenges in their classrooms through their questions. In this workshop participants will learn to understand the different reasons and purposes of questioning such as assessing understanding, building understanding, and explaining learning.

Participants will explore how to utilize higher-level questioning, give appropriate, meaningful, and specific feedback, allow for appropriate wait time, use follow-up questions, promote student created questions, understand the difference between open and closed questions. Participants will also examine how to use Bloom's Taxonomy and incorporate Costa's Levels of Questioning to promote student cognitive engagement.

Audience: Educators, Grades 4-12

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include the opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $106.00 or 4 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Teachers and students can create their own VR experiences and stories with Google Tour Creator, which uses Google Street View or their own 360 photos. With Google Tour Creator, students add cover images, scenes, points of interest, voice narrations and overlays. Choose from a variety of templates too! Tours can be shared with a link or embedded into websites.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $82.00 or 3 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

MIT's free online coding application provides students in Middle and High School with an interface for developing small Android apps that can be tested and used on their devices. This user-friendly, drag and drop interface starts with basic concepts but allows for growth into Javascript programming. Don't have access to an Android? No problem. The app inventor provides a free Android emulator for Mac or PC. AND… for your iOS users, we will cover Thunkable which is virtually the same thing but for the iOS platform. This content can be applied to an Hour-of-Code session. It is most suitable for advanced Middle School and High-School learners.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $82.00 or 3 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

The Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway is a conference where educators hone their creative writing skills and expand their teaching strategies. Now in its 27th year, the Getaway is known for challenging and supportive workshops featuring small classes led by award-winning professionals. Award-winning poet Ross Gay will read and participate in a Q&A session. Additional faculty include Dilruba Ahmed, Barbara Daniels, Celeste Doaks, Catherine Doty, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more.

Participants will:
-Engage with the New Jersey Student Learning Standards by practicing different types of writing for different purposes and audiences.
-Choose from workshops including novel writing, memoir, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Each offers craft discussion, writing prompts, writing time, feedback, motivation, and inspiration.

The conference was founded by veteran teacher Peter E. Murphy in the belief that when writers leave behind the distractions of their busy lives to gather in an encouraging community, they are able to make important breakthroughs in their art. The author of ten books, Peter has received numerous awards and fellowships.

Workshops are available for both beginning and experienced creative writers. Session time will vary by selection.

Technical Requirements: Workshops and activities will take place via Zoom. Participants need a laptop, tablet or smart phone with Internet access as well as a webcam and microphone. You also need to have access to email and be relatively comfortable using a word-processing software like Microsoft Word.

Cost: 20 ETTC Hours-ETTC Hours Accepted for ETTC Members only. Registrants using check, cash, credit card, or Purchase Order should register through www.stockton.edu/wintergetaway
Once your school district approves your ETTC registration, Murphy Writing of Stockton University will contact you to confirm your workshop choice and finalize your registration.