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Instructional Strategies to "Hook" Every Learner
A Differentiated Instruction Stimulus Program

Martha Kaufeldt
Presenter:
Martha Kaufeldt

Workshop Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration time: 8:30 am
Registration fee: $175, $150 for Texas ASCD members
for a one day session
                                 $349, $299
for Texas ASCD members for a two day session

Dates and Locations:
to schedule this session in your area, contact Texas ASCD at 1-800-717-2723

Summary:
A whole day of practical strategies teachers can use in their classrooms right away! Already convinced that differentiated instruction is necessary in today’s diverse classrooms? Come fill up your “teaching tackle box” with dozens of ideas to help you modify, adapt and extend your basic lessons. Learn dozens of ways to integrate clever, engaging activities to help your struggling learners, as well as strategies to provide enrichment for your highly-capable students. Expand your knowledge of the Multiple Intelligences and discover how you can ‘hook’ every learner. Be ready to actively participate, network with other teachers, and go home motivated with ideas you can use on Monday morning!

A few of the strategies you’ll walk away with:
•    Mini-books, flip-books, pop-up-books
•    2-D and 3-D graphic organizers
•    Game show formats
•    Hand jives, rhymes, and mnemonics
•    Partner and small group tasks
•    Movement and energizers
•    Creative drama, living tableaux, role-play ideas

Martha Kaufeldt:
Martha Kaufeldt is a veteran K-12 teacher, author, and popular international presenter on brain compatible learning, differentiated instruction and integrated curriculum development. AS a classroom teacher for over 25 years, Martha put her expertise into practice on a daily basis as a High School English and Drama teacher, a Middle School Humanities Core teacher on an Interdisciplinary Team, and as the Intermediate Lead Teacher at an alternative public elementary school.
Martha is skillful in translating recent brain research and how it should guide educational practices, instructional strategies, and curriculum design. Her audiences appreciate her personable and humorous style.
She is the author of "Teachers, Change Your Bait! Brain-Compatible Differentiated Instruction," (Crown House Publishing, 2005) and "Begin With the Brain: Orchestrating the Learner-Centered Classroom." (Zephyr Press, 1999, (2nd edition – Fall 2009 Corwin Press).


Who Should Attend:
Session is designed for K-8 classroom teachers, specialists, GT and resource teachers.
 
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